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[sup]Interacting With: [@Polaris North][/sup]

[color=536099]"I wasn't told much in advance, so no, I don't know,"[/color] Leo replied, shoving his hands deeper into the pockets of his leather pants. [color=536099]"I don't think there's even any adults around to ask."[/color] He thought of the lady with the auburn hair who looked a few years older than all of them, and considered if nineteen could count as an adult. A quick correction followed: [color=536099]"No instructors, at least. You'd think they'd be better prepared."[/color]

For someone who had been 'home-schooled' in the loosest sense of the term – left alone with newspapers and books and told to give it a go – the whole concept of an academy was foreign to him. He couldn't be [i]surprised[/i] that there wasn't someone to corral them into an ordered line and quiet them down, but he could certainly be disappointed, apprehensive, sceptical, the works. (Herding cats didn't work; Leo would follow along if he wanted to follow along, and that was that.)

The blind boy had two cats of his own. 'Dog people' believed that if someone had a loyal pooch, they were automatically in the right. True or not, Leo had no such sixth sense with people who preferred feline companions. The one with the lions could be arrogant, vapid, and/or a slavedriver with a whip behind closed doors. There were a lot of students with cats. Perhaps the other girl with the wild curls and a black cat trailing behind her high-heels – someone he'd risked a second glance at – was the real one to watch out for.

So, Leo simply leaned over as if going to pet the nearest one, whose name he was certain he would find out in the near future, but let his hand dangle for the cat itself to inspect. [color=536099]"Your cats are well-trained. Better than a dog, and I bet they can be twice as vicious, too,"[/color] he couldn't help but say with admiration. They were exquisite – or more likely, he thought with some embarrassment – he just really, really loved cats. [color=536099]"I'm Leo."[/color]
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