[i]Finally,[/i] Kelsey thought as she entered her dorm. She'd been beginning to wonder if the police would ever finish. They'd asked about the explosion first, which she could truthfully say she knew nothing about. Their questions about the car door were a bit harder to dodge, and she'd simply denied seeing anything. The yelling guy had apparently run off after tearing the car door open, which complicated things slightly. After about half an hour, they'd let everyone leave. She'd stopped at the frat house on the way, and after a few minutes' argument she had her phone back. Her shoes were on the front yard, thankfully dry and free of suspicious-looking stains. After that was settled she returned to her dorm. 

Arina wasn't back yet; probably being monitored after smoke inhalation or something. Still, she felt it was as good a time as any to test something she'd noticed earlier. When she'd been trying to put out the fire on the car, she'd felt something. Almost like a tug, or seeing something out of the corner of her eye. An [i]awareness[/i] of something. And when she'd pulled on it... She wanted to see if she could duplicate that. 

Right now her awareness was picking up a lot of those things. A thought, like how she moved her arm, and a dark blob rose up from every shadow in the room. Long tendrils snaked out from underneath the bed and closet: made sense, it was dark under there after all. Another, reaching out to the nearest object, and every blob and tendril pushed at the object casting the shadow they came from. The furniture stayed steady (and the closet doors opened), but some of the smaller items in the room toppled over. Oops. 

Kelsey went to put them back, but an idea occurred to her. She tried visualizing the darkness righting them and the tendrils wrapped themselves around them and put them back in place. 

Seeing that, Kelsey resisted the urge to grin. Part of her was overjoyed and wanted to dance around the room. That part was already imagining all the ways she could use this power, visions of dark tendrils reaching up from people's shadows and methods to make use of her own filling her mind. The rest of her suspected that part was the same one which had enjoyed her social status, when she could take advantage of it. Even found maneuvering through her friends' scheming [i]fun[/i], strange as that probably sounded to anyone else. 

For a moment she wondered if she was hallucinating. People couldn't do these kinds of things. They just couldn't. It was more likely that she was seeing things. 

Kelsey thought of the frosted-over car door. 

[i]Then again, maybe not.[/i] 

She'd have to find that girl eventually, as well as the other people who were there. But first, checking up on her roommate sounded like a good idea.