Term One Eliza

Looking up down the crowd you see some familiar faces. Charlotte stands among the crowd, trying not to be mushed by the sheer amount of people. She appears to have small blue creature floating near her, with glowing hands. 

    A man steps forward and motions for a circle to make.

    "Alright people lets get some things started, lets see by a show of hands who wants to do this shit. Alright 1...2...3...4...." He keeps counting and his eyes fall on you.

Eliza returns to her dorm about an hour after the mini tournament, the energy from the matches wearing off and the exhaustion from the two weeks of travel finally taking hold. She stops in the kitchen and pulls a cold bottle of water from the fridge and retreats to her room, kicking off her boots in the doorway.

She strips down and throws on some pj's, plaid shorts and an over sized DJ Chris shirt, and climbs into her bed. She sends out Pepper, the blubber baby nestling quickly into the softness of the comforter also tried out from his battles. Eliza smiles proudly at him, he did so well.

This battling major wouldn't be so bad with a skilled partner like Seel at her side, and they pair would only continue to grow.

But the other major, the required one. That would be a whole other story that Eliza was dreading. As long as she kept her head low and didn't have any more... episodes she'd be fine. She'd have to be.

She typed a quick recap message to Mable about her battles, but feel asleep before she got a reply.

Eliza smiles skimming through the messages. Even though she came in second, this boost of confidence fed her ego and she felt like she would belong here. She made a promise to herself that she and Pepper would take first in a turnament before this semester ended. She took notice of the names of her admires, but didn't reply to any. Yet.

She pokes Pepper awake and gets him some food while she steps into her shower before getting dress. Based on the weather from yesterday, the Snowpoint native leaves her sweaters behind and picks out a white and navy sundress and a light jacket. She makes some toast for herself and leaves a note for the sleeping Amelia.

"Taking a stroll. See you tonight if not sooner!"

Eliza returns the full belly Pepper and exits her dorm to spend the morning walking the campus to locate the buildings her classes would be in on Monday.

Eliza walks through the second floor finding the room numbers of her Monday classes and makes mental notes for the quickest routes from the stairs to them. She refused to be late on her very first day of college. As she explored the building more she pokes her head into the chambers down stairs that offered the gym styled areas. They reminded her a lot of her brother's training grounds at Snowpoint's gym. She was excited to begin, but feared that it wouldn't be until next semester when she'd be able to truly use the facilities to their full potentials.

Before leaving the building, Eliza pauses at the main entrance to greet a lingering student at the door.

"Hi," she smiles kindly, adjusting the strap of her camera on her shoulder. "This is my first year here, and I was wondering if you had any pointers for a small town girl?"

Eliza listens thoughtfully as Susie gives her the low down. Her mind flashes to Zane, how his battle was more of a dance than a battle-- he had probably spent his whole four years here perfecting that image. She didn't let her mind wander about how many throats he had to cut to get to the top.

Eliza happily accepts the business card, "Thank you. I wasn't sure what all clubs this school had to offer. I'll totally message you."

Eliza admires the battles and falls victim to infectious chanting as one student's underdog Patrat somehow takes down an agitated Donphan. She lets Pepper stretch his legs in a center fountain and takes several candids of the water pokemon playing in the spray. Pepper enjoys the attention. She accepts a few flyers from the booths setting up but stuffs them in her bag where they would most likely stay until she emptied it before midterms.

By the afternoon Eliza feels confident about the layout of Campus and is actually kind of excited for Monday. She makes her way to the food court to grab a light lunch before heading back to her dorm. Maybe there would be some kids in the lobby she could meet. See how Cole's and Amelia's first night was.

Eliza blushes as Amelia talks her up and accepts the new girls greetings and returns the fist bump.

"Honestly," she shrugs, "I've seen a lot of powerful looking pokemon and a lot of small ones so far, but I don't think I'll be underestimating anyone yet. Like last night," she nods to Amelia. "That little robot took down a huge garadose. What do you all think?"