A Disturbance in the Force [Open]

    Olwen fast walked down the seemingly never ending hallway, her legs felt like they would pop off at any moment. Olwen hadn't walked slow since they left the coffee shop, not ever really letting her guard down either. Owl couldn't stop thinking about what the man had thought about, particularly the description of the boy with a sword for an arm. He sounded familiar, perhaps she had seen him around campus. That being said, it made her even more worried about what would happen to Iris if they got a hold of her when Owl wasn't around to help stop them.

     She knew that Iris was close behind her because of the soft clicking sound of shoes behind her. Though she kept glancing over her shoulder just to be sure, Owl felt that Iris wouldn't mind her constantly looking back since she also felt like the two were up to no good. Though, Olwen was fighting the urge to tell Iris what she had heard in the mans mind since it had to do with her. But when Owl saw the headmistresses office she quickly chose to wait until she was there to hear what she had heard. 

     Olwen stopped in front of the door, knocked (trying to be a little bit polite) and then slowly pushed open the door. "Pardon me headmistress, but I have something I must discuss with you."

Ever since the school had been shutting down it's magic for her, Martina had found herself more and more trying to rely on technology. She wasn't the most experienced with it though and when she found herself attempting to use email among other things, the woman typically had to triple check herself to make sure that she had actually typed everything up correctly. Martina had brought a laptop with her to work today though and it was frustrating for her to use despite the fact that the school had been updating itself to keep up with the technologically inclined times. Nonetheless the woman had taken classes for typing when she was younger and silently clicking away on the computer had made the Headmistress loose quite a bit of time. It was only when there was a knock on the door that Martina forced herself to stand up - noticing that the person at her door was a student. "Yes? You can come in." Martina said to the girl, moving from behind her desk so as to get away from the object of her misery for the time being.

As expected, Iris had trailed after Olwen in a flutter of emotions, unsure of quite how she should feel. The man's inky hues were glued to the back of her mind, matched with his pale yellow cohort. Both of the colors were a bit sickening and displeasing to the eye and soul. Especially with Olwen's frenzied reaction, it seemed that something had gone terribly wrong, and Iris only wished to be of support and assistance to the girl. Would something terrible occur to the mind-reading girl now? Concern brimmed at the edges of her heart as she thought about this, her boots pressing softly against the tile floor as she loped after Olwen.

When the headmistress' office came into view, Iris released a brief sigh of relief, finding that perhaps something could be done about this mess. That's what she was supposed to rely on her for, right? Perhaps it was just the exalted image of the Headmistress of Foresta that had Iris fantasizing the woman as a mighty empress of sorts, but she still regarded her with an immense quantity of respect. She waited apprehensively behind Olwen as she knocked on the door and stated the urgency of the situation in a rather muted manner. Thankfully, the headmistress permitted them access, causing the green-eyed female to step inside tentatively, only advancing a couple of paces forward to establish herself in the room. Feeling a bit intimidated by the sheer thought of conversing with someone so important, she swallowed, combing her fingers anxiously through her hair as she nodded properly to the woman. Even the way she positioned herself appeared to emanate strength and stamina, giving her a deep green hue to Iris' queer eyes. It was a beautiful and flawless color, representing the lady before her quite accurately now. But, since it had been Olwen that had requested entrance, the shy female turned her head towards the younger student, awaiting her to fully elaborate upon the topic or ask Iris to do something.

     Olwen let out a long sigh of relief that the headmistress was alone at the time and willing to listen to what she had to say. Knowing that if anyone else were to hear it, the news would spread like a wildfire across campus and everyone would know. She took a step further into the headmistresses office and looked down out of habit, her eyes avoiding anyone else's so she wouldn't hear anyone else's thoughts today. The two awful people were enough extra thoughts for her to last a while. She didn't care to see anyone else's eyes now.

     "My name is Olwen Lithisi and I'm a mind reader, & my friend here Iris can manipulate energy. We were in the coffee house today when I heard a man's thoughts about abducting her for fights. I...I also heard his partners thoughts about her need for drugs but I'm mostly worried about the abductions...."  Olwen looked up a little bit, hoping that a woman with her kind of power could do something to end the fighting things that these people were doing with her students. Surely she wouldn't permit it to continue. 
     

Martina patiently watched the two girls walk in, noticing how shy both of them appeared to be. It was only when Olwen spoke that Martina stood there stunned for a moment, waiting for the young girl to finish before speaking. "Do you remember what they looked like?" the Headmistress immediately asked with a concerned tone. "You two were right in coming to me first about this, please tell me everything you remember." With those words Martina moved around from her to desk to sit down with a a piece of paper and a pen, "Oh, girls if you don't mind I'm going to call the vice principal in so she can hear this too." With those words Martina reached for the phone on her desk, quickly ringing up Caroline before hanging up and returning her attention back to Olwen. "Now, start again back at the beginning. You two were in the coffee house and you said there were two men there?"

Iris nodded thoughtfully to Olwen's words, looking to the Headmistress in worry. What her peer said correlated extremely well to what she'd seen through the colors, and with this newfound information, she would be able to apply it to their current color pallets the next time she saw them. Fighting and abducting? Based off of the students going missing here, it seemed that this was only expected, and thus although Iris was shocked, it wasn't as big a blow as it would've been. "U-Um, yes," she murmured, deciding that she should chime in at this point. At the headmistress, she nodded, of course accepting the fact that another would have to be listening.

"I-I... Y-You see, I-I see people i-in... I-In different colors, a-and, these t-two had v-very d-disturbing c-colors," she began quietly, once an area of space had opened for her to speak, "When I-I saw th-them in the coffee shop, I-I subconsciously l-labeled th-them in m-my mind by t-two d-distinct color patterns, a-and I felt a g-great s-sense of f-foreboding and fear. H-However, th-that's just wh-what I saw, I think I-I should l-let O-Olwen e-elaborate on wh-what exactly t-transpired, since sh-she saw m-more of it than I-I did." After she finished through her little bit of talking, she rested her gaze upon Olwen, wondering how the female would word their little escapade.

The door flew open and Caroline burst in. Normally, she acted with a great deal of cool and decorum (which hadn't always been the case, but she had grown as a professional and as a person when her babies were born. Leaning against the doorjamb, she must have looked a sight to the two students and to Martina. Her stiletto heels were clutched in one hand, a cell phone in the other. There was a small tear in the hem of her skirt, and her white blouse had come untucked.

As she caught her breath, she asked, "What's... what's the news?" Her dark eyes surveyed the girls and her forehead was creased with worry. She knew the girls from their files (that was something she did during any down time these days, between caring for her children and doing her job).

Since the missing students were not physically present, she could only assume that these two girls had struck on a lead. She mentally started tallying their assets and the phone numbers she would have to contact if they were able to find the students. Hope rose in her heart like a phoenix. Could it be that they were finally at the end of this dark chapter?

Olwen thought for a moment and thought back to what the couple looked like, but before she could say Iris spoke up. She nodded in agreement when she spoke, the two did have an awful look about them, even if Owl hadn't read their minds she wouldn't have felt safe with them around.

Owl turned around as the door flew open, another woman came in. Her attire was a bit out of order as it seemed as if she had sprinted to the headmistresses office to hear the news that she'd acquired. Olwen returned her attention to their looks, "Well... the man had dark circles under his eyes, which were obliviously bloodshot and he had dark brown hair. He wasn't dressed up too much but was wearing a suit." She thought back to when the woman had entered and remembered what she looked like, "The woman didn't look much older than 25, wearing jeans and a black jacket. She had brown hair but nothing else that stood out about her. Both of them weren't anything special, they looked like two normal people..." 

Olwen smiled and turned to both of the women, her powers finally showing their usefulness. "I'm still connected to their minds, if I was to get close enough to them I would be able to hear their thoughts. But we'd also know where they were." Owl grinned and added, "I can track these people easy peasy."

Martina nodded at Iris silently as the girl spoke, listening to what she had to say before Caroline came barreling into her office. "I'm listening to the news right now," Martina said to Caroline with a somewhat hushed tone as she then turned her attention back to Olwen. Everything that the girl said Martina managed to scribble down on the paper that she had taken out. "That's excellent, did you happen to hear any names?" Martina then asked Olwen, hesitating on the idea of putting the girl explaining all of this in the village once more. "Don't get me wrong, it's very good that you can find these people again but I don't want anyone making any rash decisions right now, alright?" Martina then said to Olwen as a side note - looking back at Caroline to see how she was taking in all of this information.

Even as she spoke about not wanting to make any rash decisions, Martina felt it difficult to stay planted in her seat. It took everything in her not to want to get out of her chair, grab the mind-reader and taker her back to the village to find these people once more. Sadly the Headmistress knew that she would need more than just herself if they were close to finding the missing students. Resisting the urge to chew on her thumbnail, Martina adjusted in her chair so as to make herself at least a bit more comfortable while she waited for more information.

Caroline sank onto a chair as she listened to the girl talking about the people she and Iris had seen. Caroline frowned with a mixture of concern and focus. She had missed what Olwen had said when she first arrived at the office. However, while Martina was urging them not to jump to rash decisions, Caroline was already shaking her head at the girl's suggestion.

She shot a look at Martina. "We cannot endanger you in this, Miss Lithisi. The information you have given us has been very valuable and we now know that the students are probably still on the island. This is enough." Caroline got to her feet. "Headmistress, I can forward this information to the authorities if you like. At the very least, we need to call in other staff members."

Iris listened tentatively to the other adults speaking quickly, wondering if Olwen was going to be utilized in this investigation, but the last thing she wanted was for her companion to be placed into the clutches of danger. Her eyes flickered worriedly between the trio then, biting her lip and shuffling her feet in discomfort.

"I-If i-it can be o-of any help, I-I would be a-able to d-distinguish th-their c-colors in a crowd," she offered quietly, only wishing to preserve Olwen to the best of her ability. If anything, the girl shouldn't have to take this on alone. Even at the simple talk of letting the authorities know had given her a fright, not having delved into how severe the circumstances really were.

(Sorry it's so short, Iris didn't have much to say D:)

     Owl felt a little bit sad when the other woman stated that she wouldn't be able to help track down the people. Just when she had found a way that her abilities were helpful in some way, she still couldn't truly help them out. As Olwen listened to Iris speak, she kept her eyes on the headmistress and kept noticing how fidgety she was in her chair. She couldn't help but get the feeling that the headmistress really wanted these abductions to end and to have her there to make them end even sooner. 

     Olwen looked up when the authorities were mentioned and wondered if she would be able to help them. Even though these two women seemed against it Owl and Iris knew that the couple were just like any other person. Finding them would be hard even in the small village, that was assuming that they were even still there. Owl rubbed her temples and wondered where the couple had run off to after their stop at the coffee shop. 

     She sighed and looked at Iris and smiled weakly before looking back at the two women, "Is there anything else you'll need from us?"

"Yes, please go ahead and do that immediately." Martina replied to Caroline with a split second reaction. It was obvious that the woman was ready to get things done. At Iris offering her assistance, Martina shook her head at the girl. "It's alright, you've been plenty of help as if." The woman said to Iris with a gentle smile. It was when she was turning her attention back to Olwen that a figure suddenly came through her door quite unannounced. It took Martina a moment to recognize the person, but as she did it was obvious that the woman was not satisfied about seeing her.

Jenna on the other hand had an expression mixed between excitement, concern and surprise. It had been an afternoon like typical, allowing her wings to get the exercise they needed when a building that she hadn't spotted before caught her attention on the island. Of course now the fairy realized she was most likely looked to be quite a sight, with her wings having barely fit through the door way at first. "How did you get in here?" Martina asked the immortal suddenly, unaware of the information that Jenna had for her. "Just as I did last time," the fairy then replied with a pleasant smile. "I apologize for the intruding, but I have some information that might be of concern to you." Jenna hesitated then as she saw the two other students in the room along with what appeared to be an employee of Martina.

"I was flying today and there was a building I saw on the island that I hadn't noticed before, now I heard that you've been missing students..." Jenna stopped herself as she glanced back at the children once more. She wasn't sure why she was so worried about Olwen and Iris hearing her talk, it wasn't like she was an employee at the school. "I guessed that with this my flying here was better," Jenna then said to Martina - noticing the expression in the Headmistresses eyes.

Turning her attention back to Caroline, Martina couldn't believe what she was hearing. "Do you think...?" the woman couldn't even figure out how to finish her question with so much information having been received so quickly.

Caroline nodded at Martina and was on the verge of sending out a mass text as a preface to her calls when another person entered the room in a hurry. The vice-principal's eyebrows shot up in surprise, but there was no point in interrupting. As the woman spoke, Caroline considered this to be best confirmation they would get.

She got to her feet. "I'm calling an emergency meeting. We need to act on this immediately. Everybody should be able to get here within thirty minutes." She didn't want to say any more in front of the students present. She also had better things she needed to do. The Headmistress could handle those present. Caroline's fingers flew across the keyboard of her phone as she sent out a text to all of the teachers calling for an emergency meeting.

She'd follow it up with specific phone calls, but she needed to get them mobilized quickly.

And, suddenly, there was another. Sade Baine meekly sidled into the room, a far cry from how both Caroline and the last person had come in. The girl was dressed in the colors that those who knew her identified with her person. Red. Gray. Black. White. Martina's office was now getting quite crowded indeed. The girl looked at everybody present, then her eyes dropped. Caroline supposed it might be due to her presence. Ever since the first major incident they'd encountered at this school, she'd made it a point to push the girl to take classes and be sociable. Even if the student desperately wanted to be left alone to her 'job'.

The girl started talking without preface. "Legion of d-dead in the woods. Recent dead. Not a insurrection from the other place." Her dark eyes flicked up to meet Caroline's. "Violent deaths. They are angry." Her voice held the strain of incoming hysteria. "Numbers g-get higher the f-farther you g-g-go down the path." Her knuckles turned white around the handle of her violin case.

     Olwen turned to leave after the headmistress had told her that it was alright, but Owl still had the urge to help them. Even as she was thinking of this, she almost bumped into a woman who walked in with vital information regarding the possibly location of the people who had been abducted. Not only did this information come, but yet another person who seemed to be able to see ghosts, informed them that there were lots of them gathered around a particular area. Owl sighed, they now had a good idea of where the strange couple were and where the abducted people were. She could be of no more help to them now, unless of course they wanted her to freeze the abductors so the kidnapped people would be freed.

     She quietly slid past the two other ladies and stood out in the hallway for a moment. Owl didn't have any where to be any time soon and she had little/no friends to chat with. Other than Iris. She turned around and glanced back into the office where Iris was still standing in. Silently hoping that the two of them could "hang out" like normal people after all this was over.