[color=00aeef][center][h3]Cassandra Moore – Obelisk Blue[/h3][/center][/color] When classes ended and the students were corralled towards the docks, Cassandra allowed herself to be drawn with them, despite the fact that she already knew that her own parents couldn’t make it. It wasn’t idle speculation that made her think that, since they had told her so themselves when she had last called them a few days ago; too busy with work, as usual, and unable to pull themselves away. It was a surprise to her to see so many students not know what today was; even if the school had failed to mention it, her parents had not. Rather than be disappointed, she understood and accepted the news that they wouldn’t be coming. Her mom ran a veterinary clinic and was always busy, while her father was her assistant and was usually even busier; either one of them coming here today would mean closing the clinic due to them being understaffed and with patient appointments and even a surgery already booked in there was no choice but to stay home. So she just sat at the docks, waiting with the other students despite knowing that there was no one for her to wait for. She would head back once the boats arrived, she supposed. Until then she passed the time by alternating between staring out at the ocean or by watching the people around her; the view was lovely from the docks, provided you liked ocean vistas, and the other students, the ones she had met so far, were all interesting. Particularly the ones that had spirits with them. No one else had spirits back home. No one else could even [i]see[/i] spirits back home; the other kids had always called her strange when she talked about her cards like they were her friends and the adults always gave her strange looks when she talked to Naga or Vaskii. They thought she was seeing things, hearing voices; which, in a way, she was, but they thought she was seeing and hearing things that weren’t real, instead of just things that were there but that they couldn’t perceive. It didn’t stop her from doing either of those things of course; her cards [i]were[/i] her friends and she wasn’t just going to ignore them when they spoke to her. That would be rude. Coming to this island, it was the first time she had seen other spirits and definitely the first time she had seen people who could see them like she could. It wasn’t every student, not even many of them, but there were a few; like the girl with the giant fiend monsters, or the girl with the little warrior, or the boy with the plants standing right over there. He even had his deck out and was talking to it, like she sometimes did, though strangely she hadn’t seen him with a spirit until today. Maybe he’d only met them recently? Curious, Cassandra decided to walk over to the boy, whose name she didn’t actually know, to ask him. [color=00aeef]“Hello, I’m Cassandra.”[/color] At her back, she felt tiny hands grip onto her jacket as Naga poked her head out from behind her back. [color=00aeef]“And this is my friend Naga. Nice to meet you.”[/color] [@Crimson Flame] ---- [color=ed1c24][center][h3]Leo Wilde – Slifer Red[/h3][/center][/color] Leo hated parent-teacher days. It wasn’t just because they usually ended in him being scolded; honestly, he didn’t get into as much trouble at school as people thought he did, but he did get into [i]some[/i] and that was still more than the none his caretaker wanted him to get into. No, any school activity that involved parents was always annoying to deal with; another awkward occasion where students would ask why the person who showed up looked nothing like him, or was too old to reasonably be his parent, or where the staff would give him that oh so sad look because he was a poor orphan boy with no mom and dad and wasn’t that just sad? Even though he was just fine without them and the people who ran the orphanage were damn good at taking care of the children under their care. Assholes. At least he wouldn’t have to deal with that today. He knew for a fact that the old caretaker didn’t have the time nor the money to sail all the way to this island to talk to his teachers; not when there were two dozen other kids that needed looking after. In fact, technically he wasn’t even under the orphanages care anymore; when he’d left to come to duel academy it had been more than just a temporary thing. He’d [i]left[/i]. He was on his own from now until graduation; even though he was sure he wouldn’t be turned away if he ever needed to go back. Not that he was planning on going back until he was a world-class duellist. This was sink or swim for Leo; always had been. That hadn’t stopped the school from dragging him over to the docks with everyone else though. Kind of insensitive of them, to be honest. Leo was looking for a chance to slip away and go back to the dorms when he spotted someone familiar. Sort of familiar anyway. It was one of the Ra girls he had duelled against the other night when she had been ‘possessed’. He still wanted to get to the bottom of that; it was a little too weird to just be a prank and the fact that none of the people involved had come clean about it even after everything was over was just strange. [color=ed1c24]“Hey, Dark World girl! You got a minute?”[/color] [@Psyker Landshark]