Lina and Zell walked down the hallway quietly, not knowing what to say to each other and not wanting to cause anymore commotion by making loud noises in their conversations through the silent halls and headed for the dorm, but Quistis stopped them. "Shouldn't you be in class?" she asked firmly. Zell held his hat down.
"We're...lost...new students," Lina said. Quistis looked down in a clipboard to try and find their names on a sheet that would tell her how many new students had enlisted in Garden, but she either couldn't seem to find them on a twenty page list or she couldn't seem to find the list through the many strange pages clipped onto her plane brown clipboard with the giant metal clasp.
"Instructor Kinneas," Zell said a raspy voice that would have made Lina laugh, but she resisted it. Zell had to get Quistis's attention away from the list, but by that time, Quistis already had an exasperated expression on on her face though it was just a few seconds before the clipboard slipped from her soft, sweaty fingers, hitting the ground with a bang. All of the crinkled papers flew all over the ground.
"Very well, follow me," Quistis sighed, simply taking their word for it, led them into a classroom, and stood in front of the small infered light covered by a square black glass piece, causing the automatic door to slide open messily, its old cracking metal scraping against the material of the walls and marring them ever so slightly. To their horror, Lina and Zell saw Sally, Dincht, and Seifer all in that class as soon as the door opened. Lina shook her head in disapproval where as Zell's jaw almost dropped to the floor.
"And who might you be?" Irvine asked, turning towards them and tipping his hat slighty at Lina and winking at her wholey. Lina smirked and nodded, understanding Irvine completely, Irvine will be the same in all worlds. Zell seemed to have his hidden eyes fixed on Dincht from under the protection of his hat in shock, but no one could notice except Lina. It must have been a strange sight for the lot of them, to see two new stranger who wouldn't bring their faces out from under their hats, one from a normal baseball cap and the other from a cowboy hat extremely similar to their Instructor's.
"I'm Liz, transferred from Trabia," Lina lied reluctantly. She didn't like lying, liars, or anything associate to it, but she had to to protect herself. Here, Rinoa had no little sister, so she was purely none existant, or she was still in the Reality world, suffering the certainly horrible fate she would have suffered if her senses had not brought her to the world she belonged in. She tried to show confidence in her voice as she told her lie, ulling the cat over her eyes a little more.
"Daniel Alanson," Zell said in a course voice. Seifer, who was slouching in his chair, stared at Zell. Suddenly, he sat up frightened and stared at Dincht. He was frowning and looking at them, bewildered. What was going on? Lina understood fully Seifer's position in knowing that he could tell exactly what was going on and she knew that that might be their greatest fear at the moment, Seifer's sly smirks and Seifer's wandering eyes, along with his powers of course.
"Alright, take a seat please," Irvine said. It was a good thing Zell was wearing something different from Dincht or else they might have been revealed right away. Zell sat down near the back of the room, adjusting his cozy gray sweatshirt and his odd looking cowboy hat. Lina sat next to him, clasping a hand over her bandaged wound protectively and glaring secretly at Seifer from under the shaded protection of her cap.
"We just have to wait until this class is over," Lina whispered to Zell. Zell looked at the clock nervously.
"We can't," Zell whispered back and Lina stared at him for an explanation. She could see his glittering eyes from under the shade of his hat ever so slightly, as that familiar displeased and concerned expression took over his face. "We have to get out of here by sunset."
"But, that's like...in half an hour," Lina sat up, suddenly aware of the rush Zell had come in. Zell nodded solemnly.
"Exactly."