Another redesign of a character of mine. Shhhhhh......

Ominous Drifters

“Occasionally, out in the grey wastes in between land settlements, great fissures will rupture from the ground and will shoot hazardous lava and fire into the air. When this happens, something will emerge from the mist and seal  the rifts up. Just like that. No one knows why.”

Tributary Crossing

"Why do we even need to protect these things? They're just Blanks!"

"I know, but for whatever reason the trees keep making them. They may be dumb, useless sacks of meat with no sense of self-preservation––but the Blanks are a resource."

I'm not sure how I felt about the implications of that.

So like every other day, I'm at the library on the 5th floor (as usual). It was just Khunnara and I at the table and we were both sitting at opposite sides of it. Randomly, a big tall black man came next to me and asked if he could charge his phone. I agreed, thinking that he was just going to leave it there and then come back. BUT he didn't. He decided to sit down next to me! Sad thing was, he came with a friend and his friend sat at a different table behind us... all confused at what he was doing. 

It was super awkward but I continued to do what I was doing on my laptop until he randomly asked "Are you studying right now?" and I replied with "I'm just doing homework." I didn't continue the conversation so he was quiet for a bit. Then he asked, "So how was your day?" I quietly said "It was good" and then looked straight back to my computer screen. There was a moment of silence until his friend said "So why you being all quiet?" He looked back, apologized to his friend, and then started small talk with his friend LOL. I was just sitting there... doing my thing. 

After a while, Khunnara's friend (who is a guy) came to say hi to him and introduced his friend (who was a girl) to Khunnara. I overheard the black guy's friend asking "Man, why don't you ever introduce me to girls. See like that guy over there? That's chill." Then the black guy tapped on my shoulder and said "Here, I'll introduce you to her" I turned around, the friend said "Nice to meet you", I said the same thing, and then turned around. Hahaha

Then the black guy's friend asked about Khunnara's phone and then asked me "Are you and him dating? I mean, I've encountered a time when my friend tried to hit on a girl and her boyfriend was right there." We all laughed (more like chuckled) and I told him no and that we were just friends. Then the black guy was like "So do you have a boyfriend?" (AWKWARD!) I said yes and he was like "Aw, well can I be the replacement for the day?" And I was like "....." and he said "I'm just playing" 

Then I started packing up because class was starting soon and I was getting picked up by Bernice at the bus stop. 

(I'm not sure exactly if I wrote down everything that happened, but this was just the jist of it..)

Honestly, during the time he had his phone charger cord plugged into my laptop, I was scared that it was actually a device that he uses to steal information from people's laptop or even input viruses on people's laptop. Good thing it wasn't though! Whew* 

Khunnara: do you know what sucks about having hairy legs?

Me: o_o what, hahaha

Khunnara: when a spider climbs on you and it's hard to find the spider

Me: ..ewwww

Khunnara: and when you try to grab it, you pull your leg hair and it hurts

Me: LOL