Sage woke up and brushed his teeth before going out to get breakfast. He didnt bother to put on a shirt. he sat at the table in the chair that had his folder on it. he flipped through it silently before closing it and making himself a plate. "mornin"

"Good morning" pakuna replied walking in, bundled up in his robe, grabbing a plate and folder.

"Do you know how to cook, Sage?" Shakuntala asked

"yea but nothing this fancy. we didnt really have ingredients in East. if it didnt come from live stock or a farm we didnt have it. and the farm wasnt exactly big. youd be surprised what i could do with an egg though" he grinned

"I think we will all learn how to cook, amd cook well before tjis is finished, it seams" shakuntala said, finishing off the piece of toast she held, "I doubt we could live off just eggs"

"You cook good, Suki" pakuna said, yawning

Mathias awoke from the most restful sleep he had in what seemed like forever.Just like Spirit had said the solution he drank had kept the demon quiet now. He knew eventually it would come to but for now he would enjoy the silence in his head for once. He quickly got dressed and headed out to the main room.

"Good morning Mathias" shakuntala said, and would have continued, but a flash of light signled Spirit entering the room.

He turned to Mathias, "how did you sleep?"

Johnny entered the room, bags under his eyes barely visible, eyes open but covered y sunglasses, he raised an eyebrow at the table covered with food before smiling, he picked up his folder and began to look through it as he made himself a plate, mostly keeping to the four main food groups that he enjoyed, meat, eggs, meat, and meat. Johnny chuckled at his own inner joke, as he sat down, pouring himself a glass of juice, he figured that most of it wouldn't be that hard, it was just the beginning of his training after all, he was looking forward to his training with Fire though, the others....perhaps not so much. After sitting down and making himself comfortable he greeted the others

"Morning"

"Morning" shakuntala said

pakuna waved a greating, his mouth full of food.

"You look tired" Shakuntala said, "no sleep?"

Johnny chuckled at Pakuna, his little cheeks puffed out with food as he waved a greeting at Johnny.

"That about covers it" Johnny replied to Shakuntala's query, answering shortly as he enjoyed the pleasures of his food "howzzabout you, you sleep well?" Johnny replied politely, surprising himself slightly. "Must've been rather lonely all by yerself in that big tower" he continued

Pakuna swallowed, then shoved more food in his mouth, as Shakuntala replied, "I chose a room closest to the boys side, and was okay" she said

She shrugged, "I'm 22, so it wasn't that lonely, really" but it had been. Not that she would mention this

"Yah sure?" Johnny asked, sensing some hesistation, still not entirely sure why he cared, there was just something about this girl, maybe it was the lack of sleep, maybe it was the great food he was ingesting, maybe a combination of the two, but there was something that made him care about her well being "If you want, I'm sure the spirits wouldn't mind you sleeping over on the boys side, I......I know it would make me feel better, Age has nothing to do with it" What was this, shyness, he was losing his cool over something as trivial as sleeping arrangements, someone else's sleeping arrangements no less what was going on with him?

Shakuntala smiled slightly, closing her folder, setting it on jer lap, holding the edge of it with both hands, "why, Johnny" she said, making her tone somewhat awed, "I would have taken you for someone who would merely blow people off. And yet, you chuckled at my little brotner, and seem to care if I am lonely, or afraid by myself"

She brushed pack a strand of her, reminding nerself to see about getting it cut. It was really quite sweet, the tough guy had a soft side

"Thank you" she said. How long had it been since she had had anyone worry about her? Four years, since her mother died. "But really, I should be okay"

Erik walked over to the table, adjusting the robes with a slightly uncomfortable look on his face. He was obviously not use to something bulky. He took seat and said," morning. How is everyone?" He grabbed himself some food, putting it on his plate. When he could, He ate large amounts of food. Because often, he was out and about with not much to eat, but when his family were having something he or his dad caught, he ate a bit greedily. He took a large bite of his food, looking at everyone.

"If you say so, well look, if either of you ever need anything, anything at all, I'm in room 23 on the guys'z side, you come no matter what time of day or night it is, alright little bro?" He said technically addressing Pakuna but barely able to take his eyes off of Shakuntala long enough to do so, he chuckled again as the little magic users cheeks were again filled with food. he still wasn't sure what he was doing, it was like he was unable to control his mouth or thoughts, why was he worried about these two, they had just as much, possibly more, magic than he did, and yet he couldn't shake this feeling, especially for Shakuntala, he had never felt this way before, and that worried him, so he quickly buried himself in his cereal and breakfast meat.

Sage tuned out Johnny's clever blend of concern and flirtation. At the very least it was sincere but Sage was hungry and noticed the huge gap between breakfast lunch and dinner. He had pondered last night why the elements chose to separate them by gender, especially since the one female was an adult. maybe they only had faith in their magic and not their self control. go figure. anyway pancakes kept his attention

Shakuntala smiled, and finished off her drink she had gotten. Pakuna swallowed his mouthful, "thank you" he said, then replied to Erik, "well, and yourself?"

Pakuna was a very polite, sincere and serious young boy. Maybe it was because of the way they had lived, maybe because he was closest to earth then any other element. Shakuntala didn't know. She Lso barely knew how to raise a boy. So maybe Johnny would be good for him. God knew, he couldn't be bad for him. Pakuna had beenSeven when their father had died, when he started developing his powers, so he had barely had any male influence. And then, of course, their mother had died when he was nine. Shakuntala had been all he had had, after that.

She rose, walking over just as Pakuna stuffed more food in his mouth, she was happy to see him eating as much as he liked. She addressed Johnny, "thank you. You will be good, for him, I think" she smiled. she then headed out the room, to Waters classroom, following the map they had been given. First hour was with water.

Sage excused homself from the table to fetch his robe before heading it the class room. He wore it properly despite not really liking it. still didnt have a shirt on underneath it but what ever.

Fire entered the room, and Spirit turned on him, "fire-"

"Yeah, yeah, yeah, i know, gotta go cpick uo another one" he said, snatching uo a pancake from the table and devouring it in seconds. And then he was gone in a blaze of fire, to reappear in front of a girl.

"Please tell me you are a thenone I am meant to collect" he said, "kyla, I am fire"

Kyla pushed herself further back into the corner she had been sleeping in, staring wide eyed in fear. After a moment she reached a shaking hand into her pocket and pulled out the letter, folded and refolded a dozen times. "I think I would like to be, but whether I am or not has nothing to with 'like'."

She continued to hold out the letter and shivered again.

"Child, I am not here to hurt you" Fire said softly, crouching in front of her, he warmed the room up with two barwoy heard syllables. "Would you like to learn magic, like to learn control? The others and I, we can teach you. There are other student s your age there. You don't have to be alone anymore" he said,