[color=39b54a][h2]Still in the Courtyard[/h2][/color]

For a long time she was able to freely do as she wanted. The girl wasn't able to fight the tickles at all. She was so defenseless that it became a bit sad at some point. Just when Emi thought the girl had enough the girl seemed to realize something. A burst of air was burst against her legs and underneath her. Brunhilde launched herself away from her by using air to propel herself away. Emi blinked a few times and looked a little confused at first. When she saw the girl sit upright again a few feet away from her she gave her a smile and started to laugh a little. She dropped onto her butt and kept a smile on her face.

[color=fff79a][center]"Are you okay... Hehe..."[/center][/color]

Brunhilde gave a smile and two thumbs up from her spot on the grass.

She got up and brushes off her butt. She walked on over and offered her hand to help Brunhilde up. She helped the girl a little by brushing off some of the grass and smiled brightly at the girl.

[center][color=fff79a]"Soooo. What was your life like before you came here?"[/color][/center]

Brunhilde took Emi's hand and pulled herself totally upright. She shook herself off and ran a cylinder of high power wind down her back to knock off the remaining grass as she answered with a shrug. [color=8493ca]"No clue. I mean, I came from an island way up north and lived on a farm with my parents. But it all just sorta cuts off at a point."[/color]
The tattoo on her right hand reminded her that she should be checking the journal, which she realized wasn't in her hands at all. A moment of panic passed as she looked around, followed by relief when she found the very familiar looking book lying next to her bag near the tree. [color=8493ca]"...I'll check."[/color]

[center][color=fff79a]"No clue?"[/color][/center]

Emi said as a vast wind ran through the surrounding area. Emi slightly covered her eyes as Brunhilde made herself clean again with the help of wind. When she was done Emi gave a sweet smile at the girl. Brunhilde suddenly got hit with a thought of realization and had started to panic. Emi looked quite confused at her and raised a finger of question to her chin. She waited a moment to see what the girl was doing instead of helping her. She wanted to know the cause of her sudden panic attack.

Some page flips to the index showed that Brunhilde was still seventeen, which still surprised her a little bit, and she found what she was looking for. More page flipping, and a section that was more or less completely flooded from top to bottom with text and drawings on every page could be seen. Most of it was unintelligible to observers because of the sheer density, though.

Brunhilde calmed down again out of nowhere. Emi only started looking more confused and began to worry slightly. Still she smiled at Brunhilde when she picked up her book and quickly started paging through it. 'I'll check?'' you had to check on what your life was like before this? Emi listened to the girl after she had flipped through the pages for a while. She couldn't tell that her life was pretty normal without the book? Emi glanced over the side of the book to take a glance at what was in the book. She knew it was a diary of some sorts but that it was this detailed and long!?

[center][color=8493ca]"Pretty normal rural high school student, I'd say. How about you?"[/color][/center]

[center][color=fff79a]"Oh really? Well I'm glad you experienced it well! Shall we get on with the practices then"[/color][/center]

Brunhilde noticed Emi's curious expression. She knew that sort of look pretty well. [color=8493ca] "If you'd like to know more, you can ask me later. In the meantime... It's my turn to catch you. And I'll expect you to answer one question, too. Ready up!"[/color]

Emi gave a bright nod at the girl to agree on asking her more questions later. So it was her turn now eh? She would probably suck at this. If she could only feel the light on her skin at the moment it would be kind of hard to know someone is approaching. Still she could give it a try, it wasn't like she was completely shit at this.

Emi stepped away from Brunhilde and closed her eyes. She tried focusing on the world around her. The shadow on her skin from some nearby tree. It was easy to detect. Her own shadow that was shown on the ground. It was easy to detect and still well detailed. Now onto the hard part, Brunhilde's shadow. She knew someone was standing there but couldn't make it out completely. It was a little blurry still. Her face tensed up a little as she tried concentrating more and somewhat panicked she wasn't gonna see any shadow at all. Emi hesitated for a moment but chose to start not wanting to let the girl wait any longer.

[center][color=fff79a]"G-go ahead."[/color][/center]

The most recent journal page made mention of reflection thanks to one of Avarius's comments about shadows, and she decided to try something. She walked so that Emi would feel her shadow easily - then kept moving. The instant her shadow left Emi, she lifted herself three inches above the ground so she couldn't be heard, and she focused on breathing away from the girl. After waiting for Emi to move a bit, Brunhilde circled around to Emi's 'blind spot' on the other side of the sun and hovered no more than a foot away. They were in class, so they might as well experiment a little, she figured.

Emi put up a stance so that she could quickly move out of the way when Brunhilde would strike. With the help of her ears and her element abilities she could determine where Brunhilde was a little. Brunhilde was thinking just like Emi at the moment and knew what she could see and couldn't see that well. Emi tried using it to her advantage while Brunhilde used it against her. 

[color=8493ca]"You can feel the sunlight bouncing off of me, right?"[/color]

Brunhilde circled around her while she was a tiny bit in the air. Emi panicked a little when she lost sight of the small girl. She circled around trying to spot Brunhilde but had not the slightest idea on where she was at the moment. She suddenly turned towards Brunhilde when she heard her talk behind her and looked quite staggered at he moment. Her face looked quite pained.

[center][color=fff79a]"It's hard... But I can try."[/color][/center]

Brunhilde found Emi's reaction rather funny, but kept herself from laughing. She figured it would be reasonable to actually start trying to catch her now. She went easy on the first pass, making her approach as bright or dark as possible, fully expecting Emi to get out of the way with no trouble at all. The second pass was a little faster, but still manageable. The third pass... Well. They might be learning to sense things, but part of that was reaction time, she figured. She threw herself towards Emi, aiming to take the girl to the ground. Mid-flight, she found she felt a little guilty about slamming into her new friend, and prepared an air cushion to keep them from slamming into the ground - or, indeed, touching the ground at all.

She concentrated once more and felt Brunhilde's presence just slightly. She knew where her shadow was but the girl her position was a little harder. Still she had a general idea and quickly moved out of the way when she felt the shadow move just slightly. She did it once more when she approached faster and still stood strong but she couldn't dodge the 3rd time. She was simply going to fast to dodge. Emi was tackled towards the ground but was stopped by something invisible behind her. She made a puff and laid defeated on the ground with the girl ontop of her. She gave the girl a smile.

[center][color=fff79a]"Guess I failed hehe. You can ask something I suppose."[/color][/center]

Her last sentence was somewhat happier. She dropped her arms next to her as her hair was spread out over the ground.

Brunhilde sat on top of Emi like she was some sort of weird park bench as the two sort-of awkwardly hovered in place. She appeared to be thinking hard and was resting her chin on a fist, tapping her mouth with one finger. [color=8493ca]"Hm..."[/color]

A big smile broke out across Brunhilde's face as she figured out what to ask. [color=8493ca]"...Do you want to go to town and get something to eat later? Maybe during a break, or after class?"[/color]

Brunhilde had been sitting on her for quite some time now, luckily the girl wasn't that heavy so Emi could cope for now. When Emi said she could ask a question she had gone into thinking mode and appeared to be quite focused on it. Emi herself had a hard time too thinking up a question but not as hard as this. After a while she finally reacted as Emi gave an awkward laugh in reply.

[center][color=fff79a]"That wasn't really a question though hehe, I would have gone with you if you asked too. But if you are satisfied with this question I'm fine with it too!"[/color][/center]

[center][color=8493ca]"Then it's settled. Either lunch or dinner at the first inviting-looking place we find. And... Hm. If you're giving me a free question... What frightens you more than anything else?"[/color][/center]

The second question was a [i]lot[/i] easier to come up with, and Brunhilde started writing in the journal again to note the plans for that day. In respect for Emi's privacy, she decided not to write her answer to the 'real' question down and closed the book.

[center][color=fff79a]"Hmm, I guess darkness scares me a little, I really don't like it."[/color][/center]

Her face looked a little like that of and innocent young girl at the moment. Darkness was something that children would be afraid of but she was already a little older then that.

Brunhilde blinked slowly. THAT was what frightened her more than anything? She doubted it a little, but Emi didn't seem the sort of person to hide that kind of stuff. [color=8493ca]"...Note to self: Give Emi a good flashlight."[/color]
She was half-joking as she said it, but wrote it down anyway. Might as well make her future self play into the joke too.

[color=lightblue][i]"Those that fear the dark haven't seen what the light can do."[/i][/color] Avarius couldn't resist chiming in with his little bit of wisdom.  
He had finished his quiz ball and explained the activity as he got up and walked over to the girls.  [hider=exercise][color=lightblue][i]"This ball has some mathematic problems, sixty to be exact. Each one resembling one minute of break time. Every correct answer is one minute of free leisure time for you to enjoy as you wish.  
However there are a few rules; 
1. you each get given a marker pen and must take turns answering a question. 
2. You have to stay 10 feet apart from each other. 
3. Lastly your eyes must be shut unless you are holding the beach ball. Yes, this means you have to catch it with your eyes closed. Use what you have just learned because a dropped ball can be timely to find. Your break won't start until the ball is complete."[/i][/color][/hider]  Avarius was smiling proudly, his happiness radiating around him like a warmth on the soft floating winds, though they couldn't be quite sure who he was more proud of, one of them or himself.
[color=lightblue][i]"Well, so who would like to begin?"[/i][/color] he asks holding the pens out in one hand and balancing the large, soft rubber ball in the other.
  
The teacher commented on Emi being scared of the dark. A lot of teachers were full of wisdom it appeared. Emi gave a small nod and pressed both her fingers against each other fiddling around in front of her face with her eyes focused on them. She shifted her knees a little and made a somewhat annoyed sound.

[center][color=fff79a]"I thought I had seen some amazing light but I still don't like the dark for some reason. Do you perhaps know the reason for it teach? It is really bothering me when I have to do something with the dark."[/color][/center]

She looked down at the ground looking quite sad for such a bright girl. She really was bothered by the fact she was scared of something. She couldn't imagine being scared for a lot of things like most be people were afraid of spiders and stuff. Emi let go of the problem for a second to pay attention to the teacher their lesson or else he had to pay even more effort to tell them what to do. They had to bounce a beach ball around to each other with their eyes closed and solve math problems once they had caught it. A math lesson and PE in one, well that was something amazing not any teacher could do. She never really had to give much effort to PE since it was always easy to move around and stuff but with math involved it would get a little harder. She was an average at the subject math. 

[center][color=fff79a]"Give it to Brunhilde first, I'll try catching it first."[/color][/center]

She showed off one of her fit arms by balling up her fist in the sky with her other hand on her arm muscle and gave a proud smile. She snatched one of the pens out of the teachers hand and walked away from him with marching steps and big arms swings.

Brunhilde, having forgotten that she decided not to write anything about it down, wrote a note to herself that Emi was afraid of the dark. Genuinely afraid of the dark. She was sure that would come up in their next serious conversation regardless of anything, but she made a note to ask about it anyway. She assumed she had been a bit insensitive earlier, judging by the flashlight note in the journal, and felt she should try to make up for it a little.

She took the ball and walked the requisite amount of distance away from Emi, who was already standing at the ready. She figured that she might as well answer a question first, before giving the ball to Emi. The first question she saw was on the very edge of what she still knew from what she assumed had been her high school math courses. It was a rather complex trigonometry question. She didn't have a calculator on her, so instead of actually answering with a number, she tried to simplify the equation into a more manageable format. She wasn't entirely sure if her answer was satisfactory or not, but she marked it as complete. She spiked the ball hard enough for it to be fairly loud, but not too hard to catch, and closed her eyes before it reached Emi.

She really hoped there were a lot of questions that [i]didn't[/i] involve difficult numbers. She might know how to put two and two together (so to speak), but numbers had never been her strong suit. This exercise might take a while.