Tuesday, March 7, 2017

An Interview

He should have been used to it by now. After all he went to a school where people had a variety of powers to control. But honestly, Nox had had no reason to expect to suddenly be teleported from his walk through the trees into an auditorium filled with people. Let alone, on the stage.

Nox wobbled a bit from the sudden disorientation. Automatically he pulled up the hood of his dark jacket to hide his face a bit from the spotlight. "Ah! Nox! Welcome!"
Nox turned to the speaker, Lum in his usual garish mismatched clothes, standing nearby. He should have known he'd be involved in the sudden teleportation. It was Lum's specialty after all.
"What's going on here?" He asked, straightening, dark eyes focusing on the panel. His fingers twitched, already piecing it together. There was May, Siv, Grig, and Moke or in other words, the group he'd been forced to work with a couple of weeks prior.
"We're doing a Q&A and you were asked a question." Lum said brightly, gesturing to the audience before them. "Since you weren't here before, I brought you here now. Pem, here wants to know if you only ever wear black."
What was this? Some sort of comic con panel? Why in the world would anyone want to ask him a question?
"Come on, Nox. It's an easy answer." Lum encouraged as Grig and Moke rolled their eyes.
Nox frowned, glancing to the girl Pem with her curly hair. "No."
A surprise murmur rose through the audience. And he saw Siv with her bright blue hair straighten suddenly.
"What...what other colors do you wear Nox?" Pem asked eagerly, leaning forward into the mic so her voice echoed through the auditorium.
The corner of his mouth twitched. "Grey." He said and shook his head as the interest died down. He tugged at his jacket, briefly showing his shirt. "Sometimes Red," which he only happened to be wearing today. "And rarely Green. Alright can I go now?"
"Why not stick around?" Lum suggested, a chair suddenly appearing next to Moke who shifted his own chair a little ways away. "They might have more questions for you."
Nox had to raise an eyebrow at that. "You want me to stay?" He scoffed. Yah right. Nobody wanted him to stick around. 
"Sure, I mean you helped us defeat the Scourge a couple of weeks ago, people are curious."
An agreeing roar sounded from the crowd.
Lum's voice sounded suddenly by his ear and Nox flinched. "I'll just teleport you back if you try to leave."
"Whatever." he muttered, pulling the hood of his jacket further down over his face. So what, they'd defeated some horrible blight on the trees that caused them to rot and explode. It wasn't like that wasn't something everyone else hadn't encountered before. He pulled the chair away from the table, with his foot and slumped into it. Slouching as low as he could get and still stay on the chair. He didn't like crowds and this crowd...was huge.

-Inspiration from Thomas Sander's Q&A youtube Video posted today.

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