Board Thread:Role Plays/@comment-24012109-20140624183004/@comment-5041507-20140803231916

It wasn't long until the three he had met the previous day arrived. After that, Ozpin had them line up on platforms. He saw the boy, Leaf, nod to him. What the heck did that mean? Was he supposed to be able to get some kind of message from a nod? Maybe Leaf wanted to be on a team? But if what Ozpin was saying in his debriefing on initiation was true, pre-organizing teams might prove fairly difficult. Eye contact wouldn't be an easy thing to avoid. Evan supposed he could try though. After all, if he avoided looking in anyone's eyes until he was sure who he wanted as a partner, he couldn't wind up teamed with someone he already knew he didn't like.

Evan flew up into the air, launched by the pad he had been standing on. He quickly spread out his limbs as much as possible to slow his fall. As he flew by nearby tree trunks he sliced through them with his arm blades, the friction from the contact losing him bits of momentum with every tree he passed. Once he had slowed enough he grabbed a branch above him and flipped up into a crouched position on top of it. He looked around from his perch and saw a tree sticking up that was taller than the others. If he could get to that tree he could definitely find the forest temple from there. He remembered that there was a clearing and a large rock that basically made a straight line directly between the two other landmarks.

He jumped down off his branch and started running. He heard a voice nearby and immediately ran the opposite direction. He knew he didn't want to be on a team with Francis. He saw a perfectly round patch of dry dirt and narrowly avoided falling into the Antonin colony. This school wasn't messing around. If he had fallen in he would have died, or worse. He kept running. The giant tree would be just up ahead. He saw it vaguely through some tall bushes. He cut through the bushes and hurried to where he could see the tree more clearly.