[center][h1][color=pink]Jideh Basrah[/color][/h1]

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The window was cracked, and Jideh felt the wind brush though his loose hair. It felt like the breath of the world, kissing his face and filling him with contemplative peace. On his bedside table, his latest plant, a lily, was stubbornly closed. He'd already tried feeding it energy, and it still wouldn't bloom. That irritated him. Luckily, this wonderful wind was pleasant enough to distract him. His very first plant, he'd long since transplanted, and he visited it sometimes in the greenhouse where he'd first met other elementalists. He'd figured he wouldn't be seeing much of Zeke, at least while the two explored their separate disciplines. Still, he couldn't help thinking about Kanako, and Dia, and which courses they would be taking...

He heard the key in the door and kept his gaze out over the fields that sprawled away from the dorm building. The sun was getting low in the sky, turning the normal blue hue beautiful shades of orange, red, yellow, and pink. He heard her ask a question, and he figured he at least ought to be polite. They didn't tend to see much of each other, hadn't in the past three months at least, but it would be a good idea to keep on good terms with somebody who had access to all of your things.

[color=pink]"I asked around and figured out that no matter which education path you choose, the course material is basic stuff,
 with more complicated specialty courses coming in subsequent years. So I bit the bullet and took practical Biology and Chemistry. Bio-chem, essentially. I tried to ask to get put in some kind of botany class, even as an extra course, but wouldn't you know it, that idiot Manilow was manning the registration desk when I went up, and he seemed hellbent on pissing me off.
Ah well, it's like farming I guess. Basics first."[/color]

Jideh faced Alyssa properly. Or was it Anna? Crap. He suppressed a blush of embarrassment furiously.

[color=pink]"So uh, what about you...? What uh, did Manilow call you when you went up? He kept calling me Lotus Flower, the prick."[/color]