[@Sailorsadie][@Rune_Alchemist][@Crusader Lord][@Regitnui]

[quote=@Regitnui]
Peeking out from his hands, he looked up carefully, but his face soon lit up. "Braids!" Zeke recognised the cloud over a girl's head, and waved. "Braids!" Someone else had joined the group as well, but he didn't immediately make any connection. Instead, he walked over to Braids and gave her a brief hug. "I was walking and I got bumped into by a puddle and now I'm confused. Please help," He asked, and looked back at the group.[/quote]

[color=a187be]"P-puddle?"[/color] ShiZhen asked, taken aback by Zeke's sudden hug. Looking around, she could only assume he had meant Eirwen, who happened to be laying on the ground. She let herself wander closer to the group, but she gave Zeke a reminder, [color=a187be]"Remember, Zeke, we should use people's proper names. We can only call someone by a nickname if they're okay with it."[/color] ShiZhen had no issue with being called 'Braids' by Zeke, but she said this as he referred to Bhu as 'Bookie'. Looking at the group, she remembered their names, though she was really only at cordial-level with them. She recgnized Leanne as the 'dark' elemental, though coming from a non-elemental background, ShiZhen didn't understand why a good number of other students avoided her, but at least Leanne seemed to have hit it off with Eirwen at least, though ShiZhen hoped that it wasn't a case of the smaller girl taking advantage of Leanne's solitude.

Having been an older sister to several younger siblings, ShiZhen naturally gravitated towards the hapless Zeke. Though they were the same age, many of his mannerisms made him seem like a younger child, causing ShiZhen's big sister persona to kick in. jhowever, while she was thinking this, Bhu gave Leanne and Eirwen a simple enough response.

[color=a187be]"Y-yes, that's right, Zeke also has a tendency to get fixated on things he finds pretty, and in his attempt to either recreate it with his light-painting abilities, or to simply capture it on camera, he tends zone out everything around him. So please forgive him if he's caused offense,"[/color] ShiZhen bowed slightly in the general direction of Leanne and Eirwen, unsure who had been offended or how.