I refuse to admit I'm lost.

[Izzy Blue]

Yes I had been doing the exact opposite of what I should have been doing. I had been walking around with my headphones on. "I told myself that everytime I walked I had to take my headphones off otherwise I'd get lost, but I refuse to admit I'm lost.

I'm sitting at a table in the food court. In my head I go over it again and again.

I'm not lost, just misguided. I'll find my way out of here.

Truth be told I'm not entirly sure I will get out of here without help from somebody. At least I'm not alone. I can hear people walking around me.

My dark blue hair is covering both my eyes as always and I'm sitting at a chair huddled in the fetal position. It looks like I've gone absolutely mad, but I'm not, just worried. Maybe somebody will come and help me. I'm too worried to think that I could weave a sound map of this place to get myself out of here. Stupid old me I suppose.

[Claw]

Claw tried to find a place to sit down where there weren't so many people, but after a couple laps around the food court gave up and just stood against the wall and sipped peacefully on her soda. She had come here looking for other monsters and stuff because this seemed like a popular spot to hang out, but she hadn't seen many people who looked like they might be one. She had a couple suspects, but not many. A few key signs to identify if someone was a monster or not is to see if they're all alone in a place you would usually come with other people, and she only saw two guys here like that, one was a fat loser, and the other just looked like a normal guy, so that's who she suspected the most.

[Izzy Blue]

There was somebody looking at me. I mapped out the person in a sound that was too high for any normal person to hear. It was a girl, maybe eleven or twelve, she was looking at me like she wanted to know something about me. Without even raising my head so I could look slightly normal I asked,

"Would you like to sit down?"

I didn't really care what her answer was, but it looked like she wanted to know something about me.

I let the image dissolve and the world went black again. I remembered that I had a pizza slice in front of me that I should probably eat before it went cold. So I uncurled myself from the ball and sat like a normal person, head dipped so that the girl couldn't see most of my face.

[Claw]

Claw looked at him, not surprised he wasn't look at her. Well he's diffidently not a human. She walked casually over to his table and sat down across from him. "So," she said, "I'm guessing your not a human, are you." she said.

[Izzy Blue]

I smirk a little bit. I do another sound search of her and figure out that she had bat like wings.

"What gave it away, but I guess it doesn't matter because you're not human either, are you?"

I ask, not really expecting an answer. She didn't have to answer, but she didn't have to worry either.

I feel around on the table and then my hand lands in sticky cheese. Gross. I shake it off my hand and pick up the pizza slice. I take a bite out of it the set it down again.

"So do those bat wings work or are they just for show?"

I twirl the plate out of boredom. I pick up the pizza slice and the plate keeps twirling. I can't see it, but it amuses me anyways.

[Claw]

Claw laughed, careful not to show her fangs in public. "No they work, and they're very useful to." she shuffled her wings under her shirt a little bit. "Do you have anything else besides what you've already shown?" she asked.

[Izzy Blue]

I chuckle slightly. I take another bite of the pizza, chew then swallow.

"And what would that be? Being able to see you without looking at you? Being able to know you have wings without being able to see them? Well, I guess to start out I'd have to say that I can minipulate sound to do things I want it to do and..."

I trailed away in my sentance. Could I trust this kid to keep my secret. No, I hardly know her. I don't even know her name.

I don't continue my sentance and instead take another bite of the pizza. I shrug and stop the spinning plate. I set the pizza on the plate and look up at the girl, decided curtosy is a must, but of course my hair still covers my eyes.

"Name?"

[Claw]

"My name is Claw," she said, "yours?" she started chewing on the end of her straw, the soda all gone.

[Izzy Blue]

A name. The girl had told me hers and now she wanted mine. What should I tell her. Not my real name of course. I hurredly thought up a fake one.

"Samuel McLaughin. Nice to meet you Claw."

I say and stick out my clean hand, not the one that landed in the pizza, for a hand shake.

It was her choice to believe me or not, but it was a pretty believable lie in my opinioun. I smile at her to make it more believable. I really don't want her to know my real name. Izzy Blue.

[Claw]

Claw laughed, "I love your last name." she said, reaching out to shake his hand. Claw guessed he was lying, but she didn't care right now, it was just a name. "So...what do you think about humans?" she asked, trying to steer the conversation in that general direction.

[Izzy Blue]

What do I think of humans? I had to have a good answer because a wrong answer could mean that he would have enemies. She didn't seem to like them too much so he didn't have to like them either.

"What do I think of humans? Well I find that all humans have a chance to be good, but from what I've found most choose to lie, cheat, decive, and sometimes even murder others. I don't like most of them."

He told her. Truthfully from the humans he had met he didn't like them too terribly much, but he was never one to hold a grudge. He finished the last of his pizza slipped his brass knuckles on again, hiding them under his sleeve and making sure that she didn't see him put them on.

[Claw]

"Well, I'm starting a group." she said, "To help us rise up against them, so we can fight for our freedom. They keep locking us away and that jail up there just for being who we are. At the very least we're going to look out for each other. If we get caught, we can help each other get out, and we can just hang out and be friends." Claw smiled happily, just talking about it made her smile.

[Izzy Blue]

I don't like the sounds of this. If they were to rise up against the humans then they would surely loose. They were outnumbered greatly. I already had the act going though so I had to continue it.

"Do you think there could possibly a place in that group for me?"

I asked with a smirk. I'd bail, or maybe just disapear in the middle of it. There was no way I was going to go through with it, but there was no way I was going to make enemies.

[Claw]

Claw leaned back and folded her arms, "Yes, but I think you might be overestimating humans a little bit." she could sence the uncertainty in his voice, and she could smell his fear. Fear was always so intoxicating, and usually she loved the smell of it, but it wasn't good when her possible allies got it. "They're so weak and unprotected, the only thing they have to guard them is their stupid machines. All they do is fire their guns randomly at us, hoping they'll hit something. They have no real skill, all they have is a little good aim. They'll be easy to take down as long as there is enough of us. They'll be easily overpowered."

[Izzy Blue]

I shrugged.

"I've been working on a sound barrier lately. If I could get it big enough then that would mean that it could reflect all the projectiles launched at us, inclueding the human's weapons."

I admitted. I wasn't afraid, just worried. I was pretty much always worried. I flexed my hand and then created a sound map of her.

"So could you get me out of her? I've been sitting here for a while now."

I asked her sheepishly. It was true. I had been sitting in the same spot for about an hour now worrying that I would never find my way out of here.