AVIS ELECTUS

2 - COLORBLIND

*LORIA*

I spent half of the day wondering about Alarick and the silver haired guy. Normally, it wasn't like me to be extremely curious of other people, but something about their strangeness bugged me.

Where did they come from? Why do they look so...unusual?

Alarick seemed friendly enough but he had vanished as soon as the second period class was over. How he was able to leave the room in the few seconds it took me to gather my stuff added to the list of things that made him a mystery.

Idly, I wondered how he and the silver eyed guy were related. Though they certainly didn't look like brothers, their strange appearances guaranteed that they're in the same league. I remembered Sapphire telling me that there were three of them and found myself thinking if the third newbie looked just as queer as they do.

Turns out I didn't have to wait long to find out.

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"They're staring," Sapphire whispered from across me when we were eating our lunch on one of the cafeteria tables, effectively snapping me out of my reverie.

I blinked. "What?"

I turned my head to the direction she was looking at and instantly regretted it. Three tables away from us sat Alarick and the mysterious silver haired newbie (whose name I still didn't know) together with another guy who had snow white hair and violet colored eyes which stood out even from afar.

The three of them sitting together in a table amidst the mundaneness of the school's cafeteria was an immensely unusual sight that was almost too odd to behold.

I gulped when I realized what Sapphire meant and felt myself slide a little lower on my seat at the weight of three pairs of strange colored eyes staring directly at me.

Alarick beamed when he saw me looking, a wide grin spreading across his face. The purple eyed guy cracked a small smile and said something to Alarick. I saw Alarick turn to nod at him briefly before turning back to wave at me, still smiling. The silver haired guy just watched all of these with a hooded look on his face.

I did my best to school my features into a less constipated expression and gave Alarick a small smile which probably looked more like a grimace before looking back at Sapphire who was gaping at me.

"You know them?!"

I made a face. "Nope and I plan not to."

She stared at me, wide eyed. "Are you serious?! The redheaded guy's face practically lit up when he saw you look over your shoulder. He even waved."

I scowled. "You mean, the brown haired guy?"

I was pretty sure Alarick's hair color was as far from red as it could possibly be.

Sapphire stared at me as if I just declared that the world was flat.

I narrowed my eyes at her. "I didn't know you were colorblind."

"I am not," she said, looking mildly outraged. "Jeezuz woman, you've known me for like years now and you are perfectly aware that my eyesight is as normal as it can get."

I raised an eyebrow at her. "You've known me just as long and you know that I am able to identify colors just as well as you do," I pointed out.

We sat there staring at each other for what felt like minutes.

"Well?," she said after a while, breaking the silence.

I couldn't help but laugh. "Are we two seriously arguing about this?"