[h2]Jack[/h2]

Jack had wandered away from the opening ceremony. He had steered clear of the girl handing out invitations; if she had offered him one, he'd have had to accept, and he didn't know anyone yet, meaning he had no motivation to spend time in their company. He ended up walking in circles for a while, then he took a rambling tour of the school by accident, before finally reaching the dorms - by trying to go somewhere else. He sighed. [color=00aeef][b]"I'm really gonna need a map..."[/b][/color]. Walking through the building, he could hear voices and music at the opposite end of the corridor from him. He checked the note he'd been handed by the Dorm Master. Room 401, right at the end of the corridor. He unlocked the door, revealing what was actually a very nice dorm room. Jack smiled as he set to unpacking, adjusting the temperature with his powers until it was more comfortable to him.

As his breath fogged in the air, he finished unpacking. The sounds from further down the corridor were still going on, so he stuck his head out the door to have a look, in time to see [color=00a651]someone[/color] sprint out of one room and into another, the one from which all the music was emanating. Jack shrugged. At least someone was happy.


[h2]Hamlin[/h2]

Hamlin leaned against the wall, flute spinning between his fingers. Occasionally, it would rise to his lips, and a tune would dance its way out. Sometimes mysterious, sometimes sad, sometimes happy and sometimes a tune that got the heart racing and the feet tapping. All the while, Hamlin watched the students, studying them. He noted the girl who was nicking people's money (Roanesca), and decided that unless he heard about repercussions, it would act as a lesson for the students to remain vigilant and aware of themselves at all times. However, what he did keep any eye on was the vampire (Rebecca). She had walked in late, presumably as some form of statement, and Hamlin could practically smell the scheming in her from the other side of the room. Looking around her, she was probably trying to seduce the young women that she was in contact with.

It was harmless enough, for now...but he'd pay attention to her. The hardest thing to protect someone against is themselves, and when a vampire had its hooks in someone, what the vampires wants is what they want. He'd learned that the hard way.

So, he casually pushed off from the wall, and started walking down the line of students in the direction of the little group. As he went, he played pieces that he had heard before - he'd never learned them, but his memory was flawless, and his ability to play by ear was legendary. So, he played snatches of pieces from across Europe, since that was the ancestral home of vampires, heading backward in time. He started in the late 1900s, then moved on to the 1800s, then the 1700s, then the 1600s, hoping for a reaction.

He hoped to gauge her age and possibly attract her attention by playing music that she may not have heard since hearing it played originally. If she was older than the Middle Ages, he was dealing with a lot more than the ordinary vampire - if she originated sometime during the Middle Ages, then she was a powerful vampire, but not an Arch Vampire just yet. Those were a great challenge, but tended to cause a lot of structural damage.