Late Start (open)

[Rhona Hall]

She'd glide her hands across the carpet and raise her head feeling the fibers in her mouth. She was on the floor... Using a hand to pry the Cotton from her mouth and the other to wipe the blur and sleep from her eyes. She'd be blinking furiously seeing a trashed mess across her dorm. Her bed was in shreds and her clothes, as little as she wore, were barely being held together, and there was strands of black hair she could hardly recognize.

Her eyes were wide and her lips were parted at the gaping mess that was made in the night. Her tussled bed hair was being pried away with her own fingers. A leap from her heart tried to bust through her chest as the door started banging. She scurried to her feet and got to the door. Not sure what the rush would be but she was quite anxious about wondering what had actually happened through the night. She unlocked her door with much certainty that no one else had come in and opened it to see the Head of the Dorm.

"Mrs. Hall?" She started off. "First time getting some complaints from you... everything alright, people heard growling and... it sounded quite monstrous in here."

"Ah... Monstrous?" She obviously just woke up and was a bit slow. She looked back at the window and saw the sun peeking through the curtains. Why wasn't she up earlier... like way earlier? And why did she feel so drained? "Did anyone come in here?"

"No one saw anything... just heard, knowing that some of us have a feral or chaotic Qi we don't just open the doors to let them loose that's far more dangerous. But... you don't have a Chaotic Qi... do you?" She looked at Rhona with a little bit of concern but obviously tried to be firm about telling her the way things were supposed to work. The Dorm Head knew of the Qi of each person per room and Rhona remembered signing an agreement stating hers shouldn't cause many problems.

Rhona opened her door to let the mess be viewed. She was having trouble trying to say much. "I... didn't use to..."

With that all fresh in her memory, she decided to do the clean up after she got her energy back. It was already closing in on late morning and it felt so strange sleeping so late. She needed her morning dose of UV-vitamin D. Out to the Training field she'd go.

[Mathew Amtrum]

There were many ways to train your abilities. Combat was one of the quickest ways to harness your abilities. Forcing your body to adapt to external stress, but it was not always the best way to do so. One of his preferred methods was working inward and harnessing his energy. Years ago he'd learned how to create a kind of feedback loop using a catalyst, and to this day it was a method that he used to warm himself up or even to just think. In its own way, it could be quite relaxing, swimming in the ebb and flow of the energy that permeated so many of them.

So it was that Rhona would be able to spot him in the distance with his back toward her. His forehead pressed against a large boulder with a hand pressed against the stone on either side of his head. He didn't seem to be hurt, but he also wasn't moving. So still was he that if it wasn't for the fact that he was standing and not being supported by the rock that one could be forgiven for believing him to be asleep.

Though of course, he was very much awake and alert.

[yuji]

Yuji would be napping near the entrance of the training field after practicing on learning his qi for all of ten minutes he decided to take a break he wasn't fully asleep awake enough to be aware of the people around him. he would be watching the entrance of the training field watching the different people come and go to see if anyone interesting would be up and about.

[Rhona Hall]

The first one she saw was Yuji near the entrance. She was so stunned by his dozing it was hard to fathom someone taking a nap so early in the day. It was not mostly the fact she had her own lifestyle of which she has lived for as long as she can remember. While she knew not many lived the same it was still strange to see the extra sleepy kind.

Of course extra sleepy would cut it for Rhona this morning as she was lost in thought staring at Yuji without purpose or meaning. She groaned and rubbed her eyes again quite unable to wake it would seem. She would press on as a gust of wind blew their way and she actually had a chill. It had been years since she had a chill. Her energy depletion was extensive it seemed.

Passing the entrance unless Yuji made contact she'd see Eric with a recognizable stillness that called for zen and focus. A state of mind and body she knew well if only she could better put into practice what she'd meditate maybe she'd not be in this state. She'd be able to appreciate his level of focus and calm, she'd sense he was in his element.

If Yuji got her attention she'd stop before seeing Eric on the field and deal with him.

[yuji]

Yuji would let her pass a faint smile on his face as he halfed watched her half dozed in his spot. He would wait to see if she was going to do anything interesting before saying or doing anything but he did plan on doing something since he was getting tired of napping and wished to do something else and this person seemed interesting to say the least. 

[Mathew Amtrum]

He didn't have to move his head or look to sense the approach of Rhona. Small frame, light footfalls. He even had an idea of who it was approaching him after their previous encounter in the courtyard. The vibrations of her footsteps in the ground told him all that he needed to know in order to not be caught off guard.

He took the forewarning as a chance to gradually cut off and slow the cycle of his power, bringing it back into him and returning himself back to his natural and normal state. Slowly and deliberately he shifted from his position, straightening his back as he lowered his arms, turning to face Rhona with a small smile.

"Good morning, I trust that you slept well?"

He would ask, his eyes catching sight of the young one who seemed to be in need of more sleep. An odd place for a nap, but he'd seen stranger things before. Much stranger, and often.

[Rhona Hall]

She greeted him with a smile of her own.

"I hope I did, though maybe I didn't since usually I hardly have a problem waking up and getting going. But given my body and how it feels seems like I've pushed myself beyond my limits lately." She falls to the ground and sprawls out to accept the warmth of the sun. Optimizing her exposure her body drank in the rays. Not simple tanning this would be, as this was basically a normal person's cup of coffee. Her skin would be sunkissed slightly, but with her pale heritage, it was hard to keep such color for long.

She'd feel eyes on her and angle her head to see the boy from earlier. She'd wave to him with a weak smile. She'd be happy to hang with them should they be a friendly pair. fighting might take a moment though as she needed to soak up a bit more energy.

[yuji]

Yuji would finally get up and start to stretch out before wandering over to them with a small smile. "You guys out here practicing?" He would ask in a friendly tone as he looked over both of them trying to get some sort of read on ether of them. "Oh I forgot my manners my name is Yuji Nice to meet you."

[Mathew Amtrum]

"I see."

He shifted to lean his back against the rock while Rhona placed herself on the ground. He had little interest in checking her out as she sprawled out to expose as much of her flesh as she could to the sun. Nor was his interest captured by the young man who had decided to join them. These were simple formalities, little more. As such his eyes shifted upward toward the horizon to the east.

"That can happen to someone who is still in the beginning stages of control with their abilities. It's possible that you used your abilities without realizing it due to vivid dreams. That will subside as you achieve mastery of yourself."

He was decades past such setbacks. It was a scary thing to feel like you didn't have full control of yourself, and for it to have happened back in a time when people were still discovering the normalities of Qi did not help matters for him in his youth.

"I was."

He responded to Yuji, giving him a small nod of acknowledgment.

"You may call me Eric."

[Rhona Hall]

She reached an arm and hand straight up but not lifting her body or opening her eyes. She expected Yuji to grasp it with a handshake. "Rhona, Rhona Hall... And I will be commencing my training once I charge."

She'd answer Eric next. "I've not had issues with controlling my abilities for years..." She realized that was inaccurate. "Ah... correction I've had about as much control over my abilities as my emotions control me. I am most certainly fueled by my emotions. Still, I have spent years training for control... But something is different now."

[yuji]

Yuji would shake her hand before lifting his hand up letting his Qi form a bit showing a black and red ilk over his skin. " I never had trouble making mine show up...It gets hard making it stay though. " he would shrug a little bit as he let it dissipate. He would shake his head a little bit and look down at Rhona "Any idea why emotions mess with yours?"

[Mathew Amtrum]

There was a whole host of reasons why emotions would hinder the formation and control of your Qi abilities. Just like with many mundane abilities and skills, their mental and emotional well being was all linked together, and when one was out of sync with the rest it could cause all kinds of problems and issues.

But he wasn't asked, so he'd simply remain silent and let the two hash it out between themselves. He could observe them and their thought processes in the meantime. Though he doubted either of them were what he was looking for, he would be remiss to dismiss it without thought.

[Rhona Hall]

She opened her eyes and looked at Yuji. "Physically, it is kind of like adrenaline your blood pumping sending power to the limbs and making you do feats you never thought you could." She raised a finger to the sun. "The sun gets stored in my blood and my adrenaline is just one way it fires up and gets hot in my body. Feelings of anger, joy, and excitement my energy flows where I want it. Took years of practice for that one but with the understanding of chakra and flow I've had it under wraps for years."

[yuji]

"Huh...Mine is this weird barrier that I can control...As long as I keep focus on it its fine..." He would remark with a small smile as he let his barrier show a bit more around his body. " It's kinda always around me though it doesn't protect me from much unless I concentrate on it."

[Mathew Amtrum]

So one of them projected a barrier around themselves and the other one was able to absorb solar energy and then process that energy into her own Qi. A useful ability with such an abundant source of energy in this region. He suspected it would be less useful in Alaska during the dark months but in sunny California? She'd have little problem keeping herself charged up.

He assumed the boy's Qi energy was standard, coming from within. Which meant the only way to increase and recharge for him would be through training and learning to control his bodies natural stores of energy. As well as how to regenerate it in a timely manner.