Chapter Text
It started during lunch on the second day. The students had just started to get to know each other and the campus. The more social of Ozens classmates going to the center of the cafeteria to talk and eat while others, like herself, had chosen to take their meals scattered about elsewhere.
Ozen had found herself a good spot out in the corner of the cafeteria, with a full view of the large grassy courtyard between the cafeteria and the dorms. As she pulled out her lunch, she spotted something out of the corner of her eye and turned to see a figure in the center of the courtyard at the edge of a copse of trees.
Ozen watched as this person, a very strange figure with 3 arms, one of them a crustacean claw of some sort, horns, and some very oddly shaped legs, picked up a large slab of stone. It was around the size of their torso, very large and slightly oblong, but this person raised it above their head like it weighed nothing and brought it down hard over their knee.
Ozen thought she could hear the crack of stone against hard, skin-covered, bone all the way from here as she watched the rock split, crack, and crumble against the strength of this strange person.
Something warm and prickly spread in Ozens chest. A very small feeling that dusted itself on her face, making her feel hot and slightly uncomfortable. She could swear her heart was beating just a tad faster too, knocking her off balance and squeezing her lungs so she couldn’t breathe right.
There was a conversation going on behind her, the ghost kid was saying "Awah! no thank you, I'm a-allergic to pecans."
Huh. Ozen thought. Maybe it's an allergy