I’m back. :) Things got a little busier than I anticipated and then yesterday my train had an hour delay, so I didn’t really get to look in here, sorry.

Elyssa smiled, "I don't mind at all! I hope you have fun too and maybe show me some sketches later tonight? I'd love to see more." Max nodded, the ghost of a smile on her lips. It was so strange, how much she liked Elyssa already, she was so … understanding.
As the others left the white-haired boy turned back to her, "Um... sorry I don't think I caught your name earlier, mine's Noir." Max flicked her eyes to him for a moment before looking down at her hands.
“It’s Max,” she said quietly, playing with the ring on her right hand.

"So, who's got the map so we can get this party underway?" Ale asked as they exited the canteen. Andy waved it around with a grin. To say he was excited may or may not be an understatement. "Also, you guys, I hate to sound paranoid...but what if there are booby traps? You know you can never tell about these places.“ Right. Traps. They wouldn’t build traps into their secret passageways that nobody should know about, right? Wouldn’t that be sort of counterproductive if you had to evade your own traps every time you used your own secret passage?
"well that's the whole fun of it right? We will see what sort of magical school this truly is and how far they will go to keep their dirty secrets to themselves," Emit replied from ahead of them, "Alex it sounds like you are thinking twice about it? I mean cool of you don't want to be apart of the adventure. But you will just miss out.“
Alex shrugged “Hell no; just testing to see if any of you would chicken out. I’m all in” he grinned. “I’m a bit of a daredevil anyways” Andy was almost offended by that one. Almost.
Emit laughed slightly before replying, "that's what I want to hear! Besides I have your back if you need me.“
“Back at ya man. If things get too crazy, we can teleport out.”
Andy turned to Elyssa with a grin, cocking his head. “I guess we’ll just have to get skewered by rusty spike traps or something then, if these gentlemen get the hell out of dodge. That is … do you have secret awesome teleportation powers? Cause in that case it’d be
me being skewered. Actually, I don’t think I could get skewered … I don’t know, I mean, I walked away from the car accident, not sure how well uncontrollable shield powers work on magical spike traps. I don’t think I want to find out though …” Actually, thinking about it, he sort of did. Never knew if you didn’t try, right? That is, if they found any traps in the first place. And if he wasn’t magically protected he’d probably end up roasted or drowned or whatever sort of traps one would built in this sort of place. He shook his head, banishing that particular thought for later. Knowing himself he’d probably jump into any traps before he could think the better of it anyway.