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Dyani Zitkala	Classes are over for the day, and the weather outside is chilly with a side of freezing. It had been very warm in Arizona, but for Dyani Zitkala it was time to get back to her education. Most of the bees were in their hives, glommed together into a quiet buzzing ball to keep warm, but the bee mutant required some of those bees with her and those were the ones warming up and buzzing around the rec room. As for the bee girl herself, she was sitting on the pool table, legs crossed, and her wings spread out behind her. Numerous bees walked along her body as per the usual, but most were either flying through the warm air or getting drinks from the large bowl of sugar water in her lap.
Evan Sabahnur	Evan is done with classes for the day as well, and that means he's either headed outside or headed for the rec room. The fact that it's cold outside doesn't even factor into it, since he's basically immune to such things. No, today's decision is made by Elden Ring. He's going to beat that game even if it kills him.     Walking into the rec room, he spots Dyani right away. This is not hard given that she's sitting in the middle of the pool table. He shrugs a little, if she wants to sit there, why not? Heading over to the Playstation, he turns it on and logs into his account, then starts Elden Ring. Deciding a drink would be a good thing, he stretches an arm across the room to the bar and retrieves a nice cold root beer. Opening it and taking a sip, he waits for the game to load while saying, "Make sure not to spill any of whatever is in the bowl. Teachers would probably get all upset or something."
Dyani Zitkala	The arrival of a new face causes Dyani's face to light up. This was another one of the obvious mutants, one who couldn't hide themselves, just like herself. Even as he is heading toward the couch, several of the bees fly in closer to get a taste of his 'scent' and a closer look. And then the boy's arm stretches across the room and there is no stopping the excited squeal of glee over it. "Do that again!" She chimes cheerfully, already picking up the bowl and lifting herself into the air to move off the pool table and perhaps get a better look at stretchy-mcstrecherson. Whatever warning he gave about the bowl of sugar water and the pool table seems to have been ignored in the excitement.
Evan Sabahnur	Evan grins a little at her reaction and then stretches his arm across to the bar again to grab a packet of cookies and then puts it down on the coffeetable in front of the couch. "How's that?" He smirks a little and says "Watch this. It's a little cheaty, but..."     Picking up the Playstation controller and settling back into the couch, he looks down at his hands for a moment, and he's suddenly got fingers on every control at once. "Took me a little while to get used to moving them the right way, but I think I have it figured out now." He starts the game and begins running his character around to fight monsters.     "This is a pretty hard game, so I don't mind giving myself a little extra help."
Dyani Zitkala	Another squeal of delight is offered over the stretch for the cookies, then Dyani sets the bowl of water on the bar and buzzes over to look at the cookies on the coffee table. She was just about to say something when he asked her to 'watch this' and the appearance of extra fingers on his hands sends her into a excited giggle that causes her wings to flutter like crazy behind her. "It may be a little cheaty, but that is still very, very cool!" she offers quickly, managing to stay hovering right there by the couch but not in front of the television. Her eyes remain on him, not the TV, so she has no idea what game he is actually playing, and at the moment she doesn't care. A few more bees come flittering over to land on the coffee table, couple more hovering in closer to the boys face. "We're Dyani," she just blurts out without a care in the world about it. "We just came back to school after a... um... recovery time."
Evan Sabahnur	"Hi, I'm Evan. I just started here back in September when the school year started." He grins at her obvious excitement, then glances at the bees in the area and adds, "I bet you freak some of the other students out, huh? Not so much you maybe, but the bees. Some people get all weird about them, I've never really figured out why."     He's dividing his attention between Dyani and his game at the moment, being able to keep up with the game thanks to the instant control the extra fingers give him. "I wonder if I could do something with wings, that'd be kinda cool. I mainly just stretch and do stuff with my hands, I don't know if I can change other parts."
Dyani Zitkala	Making certain not to get in front of the television, Dyani scoops up the bees off the bag of cookies. Through her they know what's in there and would very much like the bag opened, but they aren't her cookies. "It's because they can sting," she says rather sagely. "Most humans don't like insects, but the stinging ones are even higher on the list. It's based in ignorance of course because bees have no interest in them, they're just looking for a meal to take back to the hive." Now that he's been beeducated, she flutters around behind the couch to the other side then settles on the back of the couch with her bare feet dangling down toward to the seat cushions. When you have wings, it's difficult to sit in chairs or on couches normally. "You should try other things to see what you can and can't do. That's how we learned what we know thus far."
Evan Sabahnur	Evan nods, "It's probably because I started so late. I mean, I always looked like this, but otherwise I was a regular kid until last summer. Oops, boss fight."     He goes quiet for a moment while fighting said boss and beats it, collects his loot and continues onward. "My folks like to explore caves, so we were in one when the ceiling collapsed and trapped them. I was trying to dig them out with my bare hands when suddenly they turned into tools that helped me get through the rockslide and get them out safe. It was only a couple days after that when I got the invitation to attend school here."
Dyani Zitkala	Although she is sitting now, her wings continue to flitter and vibrate from time to time. The majority of the bees are returning from their warm up flight around the room to land on her. Some disappear shortly after landing, others wander around on her arms, legs, face and head. "Ooooh, very new alright," she nods a few times, too many times really. "That means you have a lot of time to figure out what all you can do, but thankfully the first time saved your parents, right?" She was really hoping they were okay. "We went through a kind of chrysalis and changed. Went to bed early because we weren't feeling well, woke up a few days later like this." She gestures to herself as explanation.
Evan Sabahnur	Evan nods and says, "Yeah, they're ok since I got them out so much quicker than if I had needed to go for help." A slightly harder fight takes his attention for just a moment, then he's back in conversation mode.     "That must have been kind of a shock for your folks. At least with the way I look, mine always know I wasn't a normal human kid so they took the powers I suddenly had pretty much in stride."     He puts the game on pause for a moment to take a drink of his root beer (after checking for bees in it) and open the cookes and take two out, one of which he offers to Dyani. "Want one?"
Dyani Zitkala	The bees were in fact enjoying a little root beer, of course they were, but the minute he picked the can up, they scattered into the wind. One brave one hung onto the side of the can, away from anywhere that could get it smashed or drown. "It was hard for our human parents, but they never stopped loving us," she smiles brightly with a soft, contented sigh. "It was harder on the tribe though, they didn't know how to handle us in the beginning." Watching the bees scatter from his can makes her giggle, and then there is a cookie being offered. Although her eyes are hidden behind the VISOR-like device, the rest of her face lights up. Accepting the cookie she offers a bright, "Thank you! We love cookies!" then bites into it. The second her mouth isn't on the cookie, bees are. "Our human mother makes peanut butter honey cookies that are quite possibly the best cookies in the world."
Evan Sabahnur	"What tribe do you mean?" He's left the game paused at this point and is turned a little towards her, the talk being more interesting than a game he can continue at any time.     When she mentions the peanut butter honey cookies he says "Ooo, those do sound really good. Never thought of it before, but that would probably be a great combination of flavors. If your mom sends any, can I try one?"
Dyani Zitkala	The cookie hovers in her hand for a moment, numerous bees getting their mouths on it before Dyani lifts it back toward her mouth the bees all scatter again. It's like watching a ballet, only it's bees avoiding certain death then coming back to eat more cookie. "Navajo," she answers proudly, sitting up a little straighter. "Our Great-grandfather was one of the wind talkers in World War Two... and we have some of them in our room, we will make sure to bring you one."
Evan Sabahnur	"Thanks, that'd be cool. And yeah, I saw a movie about them once. Pretty cool and sneaky way to pass information that the other side just has no way to figure out."     He ponders a moment, then adds, "Well, what I know of Native Americans isn't a whole lot, but I know they revere spirits of the land, maybe you'd be some kind of bee totem or something?"
Dyani Zitkala	Dyani starts giggling again, and would have tipped over had the fluttering of her wings not kept her upright. "Bee totem," she manages to squeak out. "We never once thought of that." Managing to collect herself, she finish the last of the cookie as she wipes her eyes. "Our tribe has come to accept us now, they knew us before and they know us now. We will have to tell our human father about bee totem, it will amuse him greatly. It would take some time for us to explain the Navajo beliefs, but the short version is the belief in the universe as ordered, beautiful and harmonious. Balance in all things is key, and so the arrival of a mutant bee girl, to them, was to balance the fact that the disease American Foulbrood is destroying honey bee hives faster than the honey bees can reproduce." She looks down at her hands for a moment, both covered in the bees that had been eating the cookie. "We are a cure for it, but it takes a lot out of us."
Evan Sabahnur	Evan grins when Dyani goes into her giggle-fit, but nods seriously at her explanation once the giggles have passed. "Yeah, I heard something was going on with lots of bees dying. At least you can help them, so that's good. Maybe you should talk to Professor McCoy about it, he might have an idea how to make it less taxing for you. Like do part of a hive, keep them quarantined and then do more of them in a day or two."     He shrugs, "And you may have thought of that already, but there must be some way to help you do it." He offers her another cookie while taking one of his own also.
Dyani Zitkala	Dyani accepts another cookie to much on, again the bees taking their bites when they can get them. "We never thought of talking to Professor McCoy," she admits with a soft hmmm. "He made our goggles so we can see better. Maybe we will talk to him, if he has time." She gestures toward the television. "You should play more, we like to watch. We don't do well in those games, but we enjoy the story."
Evan Sabahnur	Evan nods, "Ok, that works." He picks up the controller and returns to playing the game, busily smiting evil in an imaginary land. Perhaps some day they will smite such evil in real life, but for now, the game will have to do.