Saturday (10/18), afternoon, outside Mikal and Aidan's room

[scathachtwins]

Her face pale and anxious, mouth set in a firm line, Valla strides quickly down the hall of the boys' wing of Whiteoak, as if intent on some mission.

Reaching Aidan and Mikal's door, she raps rapidly on the smooth wood. Dark Mother, please let them be in...

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[scathachtwins]

Sprawled on his bed with a paperback, Aidan looks up as his sister enters the room. "Valla, what...?" he begins.

[scathachtwins]

She shuts the door, cutting her brother off. "Have the two of you seen Ailan lately?" She blows out a breath, her deep blue eyes dark with worry. "He looked like shit Thursday."

[michael_malone]

Mikal frowns, and thinks about it. "I saw him just a couple of days ago. He said he'd been on a hike, and gave me a fossilized fern that he'd picked up for me along the trip. Really cool, by the way. I didn't think he looked all that bad. We hugged and everything- it was a touching moment. Though you know, now that I think of it.. he did look like maybe he hadn't been sleeping. We were talking with Spindle and Dain... about dreams and nightmares and the like."

[scathachtwins]

"Nightmares..." Aidan rolls over on one elbow, looking thoughtful. "He's been having them ever since I've known him." He doesn't add that he knows this because he and the other sidhe youth spent so much time in the wee hours of the morning, both of them too rattled by what haunted their dreams to sleep.

[scathachtwins]

Valla plops down on Aidan's chair with none of her usual grace, chewing absently on a thumbnail. "Well, he looked pretty awful on Thursday after Arts of Love...not like his usual self." She frowns. "I'm worried about him."

She frowns. "Come to think of it, what in the world was Silia doing with Trey after class? I thought she and Ailan were an item?"

[scathachtwins]

"Trey?" Aidan's eyes grow wide at the mention of his satyr nemesis. "What the hell would someone like Silia see in that asshole?"

[michael_malone]

Mikal makes a face. "Ugh that bully of a satyr? Is Silia seeing him?... do you think that's what's got Ailan down?"

[scathachtwins]

Aidan's face twists with disgust. "That girl needs to have her head examined if she prefers someone like that to Ailan."

[scathachtwins]

Valla frowns. "No arguments here," she tells the two boys, "but who knows how Silia thinks? Especially lately." She looks thoughtful. "Ever since the brouhaha at the old science building, she's been acting really weird."

[michael_malone]

"You don't think it... did something to her... do you? Like maybe she snapped?"

[scathachtwins]

Valla shivers involuntarily at that notion. "I don't know...I woke up that night with the feeling that something was..." she seems to be grasping for words, "I don't know, wrong. Very, very wrong." She frowns. "And Silia was inside the building...when she came out, she was screaming, incoherent -- who knows what happened to her in there."

[scathachtwins]

OOC: *bump*