[b]Elend Carrol[/b]

A loud crash woke Elend from his deep sleep. "Huh? What? Where?" He found himself laying on the flood beside an overturned chair. Oh, he must have nodded off again while working on a project after school. El grabbed a paper off the desk he'd been sitting at and ran out of the room. Cassie would kill him if he was late for dinner again, especially if he told her he'd been sleeping in school again. A cold shiver ran down his spine at the mere thought of what his demonspawn sister would do to punish him this time. After a few turns, he realized what it was that he was missing. Elend slapped himself in the face. He'd left his glasses in the classroom! No wonder he couldn't see where he was going.

Elend ran back the way he came, wondering where Mr. Charles was today. Mr. Charles was the janitor that usually cleaned up the science wing after school. Since El frequently spent more time roaming those halls than the science teachers themselves, he had gotten to know Mr. Charles pretty well. By this time in the afternoon, he should be able to hear the sound of the graying janitor humming loudly to himself as he cleaned the halls. That was odd, but not entirely unprecedented; Mr. Charles did occasionally take days off after all. 

Elend opened up the door to the classroom he had woken up in and sure enough, his glasses had been laying on the floor where he'd fallen. He was lucky that he hadn't accidentally stepped on them. Elend smoothed his naturally-messy hair down and slipped his red-rimmed glasses over his eyes. The entire room suddenly came into focus. Not a muscle in El's body moved as he found himself in a very foreign classroom. There were iron plates over the windows, preventing him from seeing out. Or maybe to prevent someone else from seeing in perhaps? And a security camera was mounted on the wall, looking directly at him. 

He didn't start, he didn't panic, but his brain went into overdrive. This wasn't his school. What the hell was going on!? After a few minutes of silent stillness, he turned and walked slowly out of the room. He was missing data necessary to figure out his current situation. As he walked down the empty hall once more, Elend pulled the piece of paper from his back pocket. If going to the entryway would help him to figure out what was going on, then that was where he would go.