The shadow in the corridor

[claudiokilgannon]

Claudio walked through the halls in the shadows, paranoid that Ambellina or one of the mages had followed the Grail Arbor when Inferno dropped him here.

Get it together, Kilgannon. If you're really the Crowing, you can handle if one or two find you at this school...

Who was he kidding. The rumors spreading about his prophecy just made him hate his life even more. Continuing his ambling, trying to find his dorm, he hoped nobody crossed his path.

Just his luck, someone would.

[Jack]

Great. Bad enough Jack had to go to Earth, she couldn't even beat people with those powers of hers. Then again, she really shouldn't be doing that anywhere. Jack didn't care, though. It was just how she was, ruthless. Sure, she got stares from those tattoos, but they didn't see anything if she showed those who stared what she could do. "This place sucks." she said aloud. Jack wasn't the best at keeping her opinions to herself, not the best thing for her. She was so frustrated that she didn't pay attention that she ran into him.

"Hey what the he-" Jack cut herself off. She already got yelled at for cursing, better not increase her chances of detention. Detention was a lot like a cell, and Jack absolutely hated cells.

[claudiokilgannon]

Claudio stumbled back and crawled into a shadow, "Sorry. Didn't see you."

He was stammering and weak. Was it just him or did this person look... almost exactly like Ambellina? She may not have had blue skin, but he thought the prise herself was standing before him. He wanted to run, but he was frozen to the ground by nerves.

[Jack]

"Yeah, sorry's right." Jack said as she looked at the stammering boy. Why was he staring at her like that? Right, everyone did that. The tattoos, the no hair, everything about her was strange to these people! "What are you looking at? My tattoos? Yeah, I'm not eighteen, not old enough to have them by this planet's standards, so what?" Crap. This planet. That could lead to him knowing she knew of other planets.

[claudiokilgannon]

Claudio disregarded the comments, "You just look familiar.." He got up and ran a hand through his hair, "Like someone I'm trying to avoid."

Ambellina stalked and almost hurt Newo upon meeting her, which made Claudio decide to never connect with his then-girlfriend just to protect her against the fallen prise. The creature was the last person he wanted to deal with today.

[Jack]

"Subject Zero by any chance?" Jack asked with a smirk. Subject Zero was a name she was called by those freaks from Cerberus. Wait, she never met this boy in her life! He obviously wasn't from a different planet either. How could he hear about Subject Zero? "Nah, you wouldn't of heard of her." At least this boy seemed to be intimidated by her.

[claudiokilgannon]

"Her name is Ambellina. The fallen of the Prise sent to guard the Crowing," Claudio rambled on. If she aimed to confuse him, he would do the same. He smiled a bit and brushed himself off, "Which would force the Crowing to destroy the Keywork and rebuild Heaven's Fence."

Claudio laughed, "But he already screwed that up cause he couldn't stop his parents from breaking off 12 planets from the fence and creating this crappy solar system we're on now."

[Jack]

It took Jack a while to understand what Claudio was saying. Even still she was still confused. "Wait, there isn't a Heaven's Fence. There's other solar systems and planets, but there has never been a place called Heaven's Fence." Jack said. "But whatever. What else do you know about Ambellina?"

[claudiokilgannon]

Claudio shook his head. Heaven's Fence was a code for a grouping of planets.
"The Fence does exist," Claudio huffed, "Ambellina is a Prise. The winged creatures created to guard the keywork holding all the planets together. She was selected to burn her wings and hair to become somewhat human and make sure this Crowing fulfilled his destiny. She has blue skin and a bald head like yours and wears a leather jumpsuit. She has psychic powers that are able to control humans, but she can't control an IRO-bot."

[Jack]

Sure it did. Jack had never heard of the Fence, but she honestly didn't care about thinking of other planets since people on other planets were tracking her to capture her. Blue skin? Bald? If Jack had not known she burned her hair and wings, she easily would've guessed Ambellina to be an asari. It was tempting for Jack to say she had powers too. "Huh. Sounds like an asari to me." she said. "Minus the hair and wings."

[claudiokilgannon]

Claudio smiled, "I'm Claudio Kilgannon. The Crowing." He reached to shake her hand. Since this female creature before him didn't understand the Fence or anything about him, he felt more open to be himself.

[Jack]

"Jack." Jack said. "Jaquline Nought, but just call me Jack." Jaquline was a fake name, sure, but nobody was going to be calling her Subject Zero anytime soon. She paused for a moment. Should she really shake his hand? Well, Jack wasn't going to get anywhere if everyone here was her enemy. Besides, he knew nothing of her past life. She took his hand.

[claudiokilgannon]

"If you ever want to know any more about the Fence, talk to me," Claudio smiled, "I lived on Hetricus most my life, so I know a lot about waking up and seeing the keywork in the sky." He took his hand back. Hopefully this Jack person would help keep him from being discovered? If Ambellina came he could always brush her off as being a new Prise and Ambellina was off her duty.

This could work out in his favor.

[Jack]

Somewhere Jack never heard of before. Maybe she would tell him the planet she stayed on, but not anything more. "I lived back on Eden Prime most my life." she told him. If she was lucky, he would have no idea what that was. If she was lucky, he wouldn't know she was a criminal either. "I'll see if I want to learn more about the Fence."

[claudiokilgannon]

"The only prime I heard of was Apity-Prime," Claudio laughed, heading out with his backpack full of cans, "I guess since you're here you could join me if you wanted." It was nightfall, and Claudio often got bored when the sun fell....