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[colorofthesky]

[ And Zack will be there an hour later, as promised. He's young, barely into his twenties at a glance. There's a scar on his cheek, though, and clear blue eyes that are unusually bright.

He gives a little wave when he sees Adrian and walks over to meet him. ]

Hey. Adrian, right?

[draculabutbackwards]

[And Adrian is, in fact, younger than that, though he works fairly hard to give an impression of unreadable maturity and depends a bit on people assuming vampire=old. He looks not at all unlike his father, though rendered in a frosty blond palate. And not so tall.]

Guilty. So. Father's your assignment?

[colorofthesky]

[ Zack sits down and offers a faint smile. ]

Yeah. Kinda surprised both of us since we hadn't even talked before the announcement went up.

I think we got off on the right foot, though, so I'm not too worried about that.

[draculabutbackwards]

He's quite capable of being agreeable when he wants to. That he wanted to is a compliment.

[colorofthesky]

I did get that impression.

[ Dracula doesn't seem the sort to suffer the presence of people he dislikes very well so he is glad they're getting along well to start. ]

I will say, though, of all the people I've been paired with, he's the only one who really seems...to want to graduate? Or more like, he was worried about the possibility I might not think he could because of the things he's done.

I cleared that up for him - I definitely think he can - and I've read over his file since we talked. Some of it was a little over my head, I won't lie, but I did want to hear from you just in terms of like...where you think he's at now, as opposed to where he was back home, and where you might like to see him end up.

[draculabutbackwards]

He's made strides in the months I've been here. And before that. He was here long before I was.

[He frowns, looking for terms that would make sense to someone outside the family.]

He's moved beyond whatever it was that gripped him when my mother died. I've called it madness, but his senses were about him, even if he wasn't quite bowing to them. It was, in some ways, a natural conclusion of being what he is. As old, as powerful, as unused to helplessness as him. And he's conceded that it was... not wrong, exactly, but unproductive, cruel, not what she'd have wanted.

[colorofthesky]

[ Zack listens with a thoughtful, solemn look on his face and let’s put a soft hum. ]

I’m glad he’s moved past that. We talked about it a bit, and I think where he’s stuck now is…figuring out what he can or wants to do with himself now. Even if he doesn’t ever like people that much — and I don’t think he needs to, exactly — I don’t think going home and sitting alone in his castle is the right answer for him.

[draculabutbackwards]

Yes, he can more or less do that here. Isolation in a spooky, magic box full of impossible engines and unpleasant wonders while steadily ignoring his roommates? That was his life since Mother died, I think.