[i]The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.
-Lois McMaster Bujold[/i]

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[i][u]Henry Olin, & Theresa Obott[/u][/i]

Henry sighed and moved over to a chair, and sat down, settling in quickly. It had been a long day for him, and people asking stupid questions didn't help.

"Well if you check your watch, you'll see it's about 7:30 in the evening or so." Henry replied, relaxing into his seat a bit more. He didn't wear a watch, none were ever big enough for his wrist, and none were durable enough to survive the wear he'd no doubt put them through. He had checked the clock before the power went out though, it had been about 7:12 or so at that time. "So I'll let you fill in the blanks on what people would be doing in the cafeteria around dinner time. It's a fill in the blank question." he said. If she couldn't answer that one, he'd have to talk to an admin about who they were letting onto the campus because he didn't want to teach young adults who barley passed the third grade, if that. He chuckled at Theresa's joke.

Alieen, Codi, and Rosette were all being annoying to Theresa. It made her roll her eyes how silly things had gotten. Rosette and Codi were having a rather pointless conversation ([i]This island is in the damn carribean, where else would it be?[/i]) and Alieen was asking stupid questions ([i]We're in here playing naked twister! What else do you think we're doing, lady? Eating.[/i]). It was a shame that everyone had started being so... [i]unfun[/i]....that she had no choice but to sit around playing with her thumbs and hope things start being interesting. Though, Alieen [i]did[/i] mention Kade - her longtime friend. "Oooooh, Kade? She my homegirl."

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Lightning cracked close by, causing the whole building to shudder from the amount of force behind it. The lights briefly flickered before the room once again was dark. Henry yelped in surprise at the strike, falling out of his chair and smacking his chin soundly on the ground. He lay there for a few seconds, simply breathing, before his eyes slowly opened. He smelt something. Something odd, something he had smelt before. Many times before. Metallic and liquid. He pushed himself up onto all fours, and followed his nose and tongue. His forked tongue flicked in and out of his mouth, working in tandem with his nose to find the direction the sound is coming from. It was strong now. Henry didn't know it yet, but he had tracked the scent into the electricity room. The scent was strong now. Henry was so focused he had closed his eyes and focused only slightly on thermal vision. His senses were so good from his power metastasizing for so long that focusing on two or three of them all the way was too much. Sensual overload to his brain that he couldn't handle yet.

His hand was placed down as he moved forward even more. He could taste the smell now. He went to move again, but stopped when the substance he had placed his hand in dawned on him. Focusing back to sight, Henry looked down. His hand was warm red and yellow. Normally his body was reddish or blue. His fingers were sticky from the substance, and it fell back to the ground like warm chocolate syrup. Henry leaned his head forward, and allowed his long forked tongue to go over the substance in a long and drawn out lick. It tasted like it smelled. Metallic, tasting coppery, and had a slight salty and sweet tang to it. It tasted like blood. Henry looked up from his hand, and looked around, before his eyes fell on the corner of the room, with the trail of blood following it, and a pool below it. Still red and yellow. Fresh, only a few minutes old.

He couldn't see it's face, but he could smell that it was feminine. She was stuffed against the corner in a semi awkward manner, as if forced into it. Her legs were positioned at an odd angle, and her muscles looked taught with adrenaline and fresh use and rigor mortis had yet to set in. Wounds lined her thighs, as if they had been cut. Her calves had been slit where they connected at the back of the knee, rendering the muscle group useless, and keeping her from running. One of her arms were limp against her body, soaked with blood that was still flowing from every wound. It was covering what he could only guess to be a particularly deep and painful stab would to the gut, that looked like it had been twisted and dragged downward, doing even more damage. But as he continued upwards, it got much worse. Her jugular vein hand been hacked and stabbed at viciously, with her trapezius muscles having been sliced clean from where it should've connected at the back of the neck. Her other hand had grabbed at her neck, but had only made it to her collar bone before she had died, causing it to rest against her breast, as if protecting her heart. Blood flowed freely from her neck, cascading down in a morbid waterfall. Her cheek on the same side of the neck wound had been cut wide open, causing her jaw to hang at an odd angle. There was a trail of blood soaked boot prints leading towards Henry, and out the back door, behind him, where the storm raged on, removing any trail of the attacker who had killed... no butchered, this woman.

Henry fell backwards on his rear, and kicked away from the corpse as if it were to move again. If he had the ability to vomit and cry, he would've. Instead he made a gagging sound and scrambled back against the wall, using it to push himself upward to standing and simply look at the scene before him. He couldn't tell who this was. No light entered this place. His eyes couldn't discern a detailed. But he couldn't handle this. He took one last look at the corpse before he scrambled out of the room, rushing back into the main cafeteria room. He couldn't say anything. Doing so in the darkness would do nothing but scare the students and cause chaos. He couldn't deal with that, not right now. He had to keep every calm. He couldn't help but shake though at what he had just seen, what he had just witnessed. He moved over to the emergency phone near the kitchen. He needed to call in as soon as the power came back on. This couldn't wait, and every second he did, it tore him apart a little bit more.

Hm? Theresa raised an eyebrow when something came scrambling back into the room like a scared animal. She casually turned her head towards the source and looked. Who was it? She didn't hear anyone leave, so that means this must be a newcomer. "Why hello there," the teen started off with a smile. "Dunno who you are, but why'd you run in 'ere like a madman? Seen a ghost?" 

Henry froze at this, but replied to his friend none the less. "Y-you dont even know." Henry said. He had stuttered. He didn't do that often, not even when he faced down Jaska in beast form. He shook his head. "I need you all to stay in here, okay? I need to keep an eye on you all until the power comes back on for safety reasons." he explained. "Just... just trust me on this one."

Huh? It was Henry all along? Damn that scaly lizard-man quiet - she didn't hear a thing! That made her briefly wonder where he went. He just dipped for a second to take a lizard-piss? And why is he so jittery all the sudden? The problem with that is that Theresa doesn't really know how to ask, and just would rather keep her mouth shut and keep having fun. Besides! The girl has just thought of many jokes to make! It's going to be hi-lar-i-ous. She slung her saxophone over her shoulder and took some small steps over to where she last heard Henry. 

"Waaaait," Theresa started off, with a toothy grin, "Did you and Toria try to engage in some coitus while we weren't looking? Are you crazy!? Your double-donger surprise too much! Did you kill her with 'em?!" She whispered, covering her mouth to surpress the giggle. "Don't worry, Lizard-man, I got your back. I'll help you hide what's left and we-" 

Henry reached over and grabbed Theresa by the front of the shirt with the hand that wasn't covered in blood, and pulled her close to him. He craned his neck down to where just the edge of his snout was next to her ear. "Theresa, shut up." he said, his head retracting to look around the room to see if anyone was paying attention. Seeing none, he leaded back down to whistper to her. "I found a body. I need to keep everyone calm and within my sight, myself included, in case whoever did it is still around." he said, before releasing her and takign a step away. "Please help me with that." he finished, releasing a shaky, pent up breath that fell from his nose as he exhaled like a rough and choppy wave. It was dark and not many in the room had the means to defend themselves like he did if they were attacked. He needed to be there to warn and help them. He hoped that he wouldn't have to do either, at least not until the power came back on.

Holy shit. Holy [i]shit[/i]. There's a... dead body? Whoa, whoa, whoa, this isn't what they said in the brochure. Her heart started racing as her gut was filled with a horrid feeling. Someone just killed someone. That was... awful. "I..." Theresa started twiddling her thumbs as she looked around and desperately tried to come up with something. Jesus, she only wanted to fool around. Dead bodies were too intense for her. Then there's going to be poli- oh God... she's going to be a suspect in all of this. She didn't know how to handle this! She [i]can't[/i] handle this. So many thoughts and emotions whirling around in her head right now. She didn't know how to process all of them. Theresa knew that even joking around wouldn't be able to help her.

She felt like she was cornered here... She looked around, but still saw nothing but darkness. There was no way out.... but she had no choice here. Without a word, Theresa pulled that saxophone that was hanging off her back. Well, she had no other what would keep them calm other than a little bit of jazz. Because she was on the verge of a freakout herself. Theresa inhaled as she put the tool to her lips. "Alright, y-ya'll," Theresa started off, "Im-imma play you all a s-s-ong..." She started playing the only song that made sense.

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