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"Well, no," said Ilac, still slightly uncomfortable. "Most everyone knows what a love spring is, how to avoid it, stuff like that. I believe that the dove was injured, and my mom disregarded the fact that it fell into a love spring just to save it. So, the unintended consequences..." He stopped again. "I left because most halves are actually outcasts." He turned to witness another half-bird fall from a tree. "Are you okay?" he asked, running over.

The presence of a new Half dropping down from a tree quickly grabbed Syvor's attention. He snapped his head in her direction, realizing their wings were somewhat similar in structure, even though Syvor's were more masculine, and more of a reddish-brown than fawn colored. "Do we..." he began, then turned back to Lily, "...know her?" The number of Halves in the field of the school was starting to make his head spin. How many of them were there?

Lily's answer was just beginning to sink in to him. He slowly turned back to her, a look of disbelief on his face. "What did you say?" he breathed, rather rudely, for Syvor anyway. He took a light step towards her. "Why wouldn't you want to have a conscience?" he asked accusingly. "Just because you're a Half-Demon doesn't mean you're not allowed to care about something. Maybe it's just because I was raised by a Half-Angel, but the last time I checked, the last thread holding this screwed-up world together is a person's will to care."

What she said had upset him so much, he turned swiftly and stormed away. She may not have meant anything offensive, but it didn't matter. The primary feathers in his wings swayed with his steps as he tried to take a deep breath and calm himself down. When he reached the end of the woods and out into the field crammed with Halves galore, he loosened his expression and approached the new girl. To make sure she saw he also had wings, he let them fold in a little bit and frame the edges of his body in russet feathers. "Um," he started, his brown eyes wide, admiring her thinner, gentler-colored wings, "What's your name?" he asked, wanting his mind to process something besides Lily's comment.

"Nice to meet you, Kenya," said Ilac courteously, shaking her hand. "I'm Ilac." He grinned. "So, I'm far from being the ony winged Half, although chances are I'm the only natural one." He laughed at his joke.

He brushed his hands down one of his wings, causing a loose feather to fall off into his hands. Syvor held it upright so she could see it. It was a fiery reddish orange with chocolate brown speckles, and two invisibly thin, light brown lines on each side, forming two thin V's on the feather itself. "Mine's a Red Hawk, like the kind you'd find in a desert." He twirled the feather between his index finger and thumb, then casually opened his fingers and let the wind catch it. "Yours looks kind of similar." he continued, squinting at her more feminine wings. "Besides color and thickness, of course." he added, opening his eyes normally again and switching his gaze back at her eyes. "What's your other half?"

Again his mind drifted off to Lily, who had probably escaped off by herself by now. Had he been overreacting a bit? She didn't mean anything by the comment, and yet he'd taken it like a direct insult. Syvor promised himself that after he received Kenya's answer, he'd stalk back into the woods to find her, and even apologize for his actions. How ironic, at the moment he made that oath to himself, he was regretting his strong conscience too.

*bumping*

"Ferruginous hawk," Kenya said. It was interesting and coincedential that the other winged Half was a hawk as well, albeit a different type.

Ooc:// SOrry for the short post...Writers' Block....

"Well," began Syvor, "It was nice to meet another Half with a hawk side as well, but I need to... take care of something." With that, he turned and began walking back towards the woods, but realized that Lily has followed him out and was standing near everyone, so he simply strode over, making his voice quiet. "I'm really sorry for storming off like that." he explained, a hand on his forehead. He didn't know what else to say, and he looked into her pale lavender eyes as he repeated even softer, "I... guess I just have a pet peeve."

Ooc:// Edited, and sorry for shortness.

Taylor was slightly confused with all the silent commotion. He looked at the new girl. She was supposedly named Kenya. The least he could do, the ghost kid decided, was to introduce himself. "Another half hawk hm? Well welcome to the club of halves." He slightly made it a joke, but since it was a bit of a serious matter when it came to the scientists, he cleared his throat and said, "Well, nice to meet you anyway. I'm Taylor. Half ghost."

Taylor chuckled. "I definetely won't be objecting to that." He shot Rue a wink. "But where do we go now?" he asked, turning towards the others. "I mean... well..." You could clearly tell he was at a loss for words, but it wasn't really obvious what it was he was trying to say. What he was trying to get out though, was that he had been on the run almost his entire life. He had pretty much run out of hiding places. He hoped someone else knew a place they could go to. He couldn't be sure, though, until he opened his trap to speak. "Well, I've been running my entire life. It may be my fault they came here for all we know. But... I don't really know anywhere else we could go..." he trailed off, having gotten out (somewhat) what he meant to.

Ooc:// Edited my previous post, as I noticed I misunderstood everyone's position.