[color=cyan][center][h1][b][u]Cyan[/u][/b][/h1][/center][/color]
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Cyan's relaxing vacation on the floor was interrupted by the surprise appearance of a classmate.

[color=lightcoral]"Hi Ceylon! Are you on a late errand too? My mother wants whipped cream and strawberries but I didn't see her bake a cake at all tonight. It's curious. Oh... are you that tired? You can't sleep in the floor, silly, it's dirty!"[/color] She rambled a greeting, sounding like she was attempting cheeriness but was audibly tired.

[color=cyan]"No, I was just..."[/color] Cyan trailed off as he turned to look at the monster that was drooling all over the window.  Now that he got a better look at it in the light, it...  Well, it didn't have glowing red eyes.
[color=cyan]"Uh...  Yeah, my phone ran out of batteries."[/color] It took him a moment to regain his trail of thought, but once found he tossed in a non-sequitur.  It was probably best not to admit that he'd been running at top speed for the past five minutes to get away from that [url=https://www.k9harness.com/content/images/thumbs/0003348_newfoundland_550.jpeg][i]thing[/i][/url].  Even if he knew better, she would probably think of it as a lovable newfoundland dog.

Pulling himself back to his feet, Cyan brushed off the seat of his pants.  The other student hadn't been lying about the state of the floor.  This place needed a janitor, someone at least as good at cleaning as his tail accidentally was.  The boy grimaced as he pulled off a few leaves and brushed off bits of dust that collected in his tail.  Some of it was probably from running from the dog though.

[color=cyan]"So...  Meredith, right?  How come your mom's making you come out here in the middle of the night?"[/color] Cyan asked in an awkward attempt to not be awkward.  Luckily he knew her name, even if she didn't know his.  It wasn't that he was especially good at names, she was just one of the more [i]memorable[/i] students in his class, even if he hadn't talked to her before.

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