Singing out my Problems

[Dovie(comp down indefinitely)]

[glow=purple,2,300]Dovie quietly walked into the Dance Hall, memories of what happened a few days ago twirling in her head. She combed her fingers through her long, black hair, pulling it away from her face.
She walked in towards the empty stage, her tanned deerhide skirt swaying gently with each movement. Her perfectly tanned and waterproofed moccasins made a sish, sish sound as she scuttled across the floor, and her Turquoise earrings jingled melodiously. Dovie was completely lost in her own thoughts, trying to figure out this thing with the nymph a girl had gone through, what happened with her cousin...
Dovie heaved a light sigh and, turning her back to the stage, pulled herself up with her arms and sat, swinging her legs. Her usually bubbly behavior and attitude was nowhere to be found and was instead replaced by biting a lip and staring at the floor.

She began humming a melancholy techno tune she'd heard from one of her friends...sure, it was about love, but the mood was very fitting...[/glow]

I'm kicking that stone Down your street alone
And the walls criticize where I have gone
I'm throwing that stone Through your open door
And the halls seem to tell me that I am wrong
I'm taking the long way home Where everything's overgrown Just like the boy Trying to give it away
I regret tomorrow
I'm taking the long way home Whatever may come and go Just like the boy Trying to give it away
I regret tomorrow more than yesterday
Remember that wall Where we used to hide
And the world seemed so dark and cold outside
Remember that field Where we used to kiss
And the rain washed away our secret list
I'm taking the long way home Where everything's overgrown Just like the boy Trying to give it away
I regret tomorrow
I'm taking the long way home Whatever may come and go Just like the boy Trying to give it away
I regret tomorrow more than yesterday
Nobody's home And I feel lost inside
There's a clock counting down what's left of time
When you're all alone, It's easy to hesitate
Like a girl listening to her heart break
I'm taking the long way home Where everything's overgrown Just like the boy Trying to give it away
I regret tomorrow
I'm taking the long way home
I'm taking the long way home
Where everything's overgrown Just like the boy Trying to give it away
I regret tomorrow
I'm taking the long way home
Whatever may come and go
Just like the boy
Trying to give it away

I regret tomorrow more than yesterday...

[glow=purple,2,300]Dovie sat on the edge of the stage, hands propped on either side, and began fidgeting with her silver feather ring on her left ring finger. She replayed how she found it in her mind. Finding it on the desk when she was twelve, asking if it belonged to anyone, nobody claiming it and the school deciding to give it to her... That was when things had seemed to get better... and now, well... Things were back to he**, nothing new for Dovie. She lifted up her left hand and read the etching on the inside to herself in a whisper.
"Promise you'll always Take Care of yourself... Well, I have promised, and I have taken care of myself...how far has it gotten me?" Dovie sighed and gently placed her hand back down and the edge of ths stage. She sat staring at the floor, letting images of the reality of her life fade in and out of her mind. What was she going to do...?[/glow]

[Dovie(comp down indefinitely)]

[glow=purple,2,300]Dovie slid off the edge of the stage hours and hours later, still trying to figure out what exactly she was going to do. She glided across the floor with a scritch/sish, scritch/sish sound, the sounds of her moccassins and her deerhide skirt mixing in a unique melody. She pulled a small rain stick out of a hiddin pocket within her robes and started tilting it back and forth slowly, hoping it would actually storm. Oddly enough, it seemed to do that any time she was upset, in a nostalgic mood, or homesick; right now, it was all three.
Dovie sighed and pulled her hair behind her ears as she walked over to the window, still tilting the rain stick back and forth, and what would you know? It was beginning to get dark and cloudy outside. Mere seconds later, a loud burst of rain began pelting the side of MH Castle, and Dovie just stared at the windowsill, emotionless. She hoped Rev would be okay and be able to avoid Alexandria while she was hiding in the Dance Hall. Dovie slowly leaned her forehead forward until it touched the cold glass of the large stained window and repeated the last line of the song several times into the thin air, waiting, wondering, and hoping...[/glow]

[Drusilla Lyngard]

Dru entered the Dancing Hall, today wearing a long red dress made a flowy fabric.

"Oh, I didn't notice anyone was here," she said when she saw the girl. She smiled and turned to go out again, but there was somehting about this girl that made her stay.

She walked up to her and asked if there was something wrong. "Is there something I can do?" she asked, her eyes filled with concern.

[Dovie(comp down indefinitely)]

[glow=purple,2,300]Dovie turned, her face not belying any emotion at all. In fact, she looked rather...spacey with her chin propped on her hand, elbows on the windowsill. A thin girl with short black hair and purple eyes had wandered into the Dance Hall. "Oh, I don't mind." Dovie stated in a small, gentle whisper. She turned back to the window, but heard the girl come back in. Her senses never seemed to betray her.
"I'm alright, I've just fallen a bit..." Dovie sighed slightly. " 'Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall'...Confucious...I'm just trying to rise back up, I guess." Dovie gave a slight smile, and looked over at the girl from the sill.[/glow]

[Drusilla Lyngard]

"I see.." Dru said, her eyes still had the same expression.

"If there is anything I can do to help, I'd be glad to do it." She smiled at the girl.

"Oh, by the way, my name's Drusilla, Dru for short." She reached out a pale hand to greet the other girl.

[Dovie(comp down indefinitely)]

[glow=purple,2,300]Dovie shook the girl's hand. "Dru...that's a very pretty name. Dovie gave a small smile and introduced herself as well. "Dovie, Dovie Bell."
She paused for a moment, hoping the girl wasn't as worried as she appeared, and spoke again in a very quiet, airy voice. "I'm fine, realy. Well, I mean I'll be fine soon anyhow. It's just...a lot of stuff has been going on lately, and I'm beginning to wonder if..." Dovie's voice trailed off, and she wondered if she should tell this girl her thoughts or not. "If the school isn't in danger... Or at least some of my friends..." Dovie gave a very uncertain look and slowly turned back to the window, her deerhide skirt and moccs not making a single sound as her thick, wavy black hair floated around her.
"I'm very unsure of what to do about it, as well..." Dovie turned back towards the girl, her hair spilling around her shoulders in black rivulets. "I was thinking of reporting some things to the Ministry, but...I can't be sure that what I think or feel is correct. I mean, would they even listen to a girl like me?" Dovie was barely biting the side of her bottom lip, her eyes filled with ambiguity and pure uncertainty, as her innermost thoughts flooded outwards.
"I honestly...don't know what to do." Dovie shook her head, her black waves moving lightly with the movement. She took in a deep breath and sighed. "I've always been able to protect everyone before...And now it seemes they're in more trouble around me than whilst I'm away." Dovie turned and looked out at the black, thundering sky and watched as a single bolt of purple lightening branched out into all different directions, making it look like the skeleton of a tree.
"I'm sorry, I...I didn't mean to just...spill everything like that." Dovie turned her back to the window yet again and looked at the marbled floor for several moments before looking up to speak. "I appreciate the concern...I think I'll be okay..." *My friends, on the other hand...* she added in her head.
"I'm sorry, Mi-- Dru..." she was about to call her Miss, like she did everyone else. Someone, Mister Dakkon if she remembered correctly, mentioned that everyone was friends here and she didn't need to call everyone Miss or Mister.
"Thank you for asking, I appreciate it, I didn't mean to worry anyone, let alone someone as kind as yourself." Dovie smiled and unconsciously went back to playing her rain stick.[/glow]

[Drusilla Lyngard]

"In danger? What do you mean?"
Dru looked at Dovie; trying to figure out her calm, but yet scared expression. She seems to be afraid of something, that's for sure, but what?

"Report things to the Ministry? What things?" Her thoughts coming out loud now; whether she wanted it or not, she didn't know.
"If there is something you know, something that may be important to the Ministry, I think you should tell them, whether it just is some feeling you have or if you've seen or heard anything," she said finally, letting her thoughts flow freely now; trying to help Dovie, but without knowing how to do it. She just wanted everyone to be happy. So she'd always wanted.

She looked as the lightning ripped the sky. It was beautiful, and though Dru was upset, her thoughts gathered and her soul calmed down.

[Dovie(comp down indefinitely)]

[glow=purple,2,300]"Aye, I know I should...a girl went into the forest and..." Dovie cringed and began unknowingly chewing on her thumb. "A nymph evidently attacked her..the thing is, nymphs are just cheeky, never violent. The only time creatures of the forest attack is when they are threatened by something within. The girl mentioned that the nymph had said something about being the last of her kind, highly unusual if you ask me." Dovie paused, thumb still near her mouth, and fiddled with her silver feather ring. "I...I fear something is in the forest, hurting the creatures and making them lash out. Thing is, I don't know what, but I have this horrid feeling that it's after the school... I don't get it... What's more, I'm always right when I get those feelings...And now I'm afraid my cousin may be helping, or wanting to help..." *Maybe I could use her to my advantage...* Dovie thought to herself. Yes, she could use Alexandria...She liked bragging about her "accomplishments," and if she got into helping whoever was attacking creatures in the forest...
"It's a smoke screen...it's a smoke screen!" Dovie exclaimed, her eyes wide and bright, her thinking cleared now. "It's a smoke screen! Whoever is in the forest messing with the creatures wants the school to think that the creatures are just acting up, but they aren't and the Nymph proves it! They want the school to think it's just the creatures, when I bet they're using the forest for some other reason...hiding maybe...and planning something. Thing is, I don't know what. Darn!" Dovie smacked her right fist into the windowsill, making a thud sound as she did so. Dovie sighed and looked up at Dru.
"I'm sorry, I'm probably not making any sense at all right now. Must sound like a rambling fool..."

A few moments passed, and nobody spoke. "I've got to go.." Dovie tore herself away from the window and stepped out into the hallway, looking around to make sure nobody was there, before heading off to find the Headmistress.[/glow]