[OPEN] they say 'freak' when you're singled out.

[perseus james rudman]

Perseus had spent all morning searching for his brother's lost daughter. And so far, nothing had turned up. He was starting to get worried. She was only going to be two in a couple of months. How far could a two year old have gone to be missing for so long? He just hoped some creep hadn't found her. There weren't a lack of creeps around here.

The blue eyed boy made his way to the library, swinging Bandit's little book sack along beside him. He'd hoped he would have found her by now to give it to her. But there still was no sign of the small red head. Perseus pushed open the doors to the library, looking around before he started to the back. He was bent on proving his brother wrong. Deacon had said he'd seen a girl the other day, and her name was Thaleia. Perseus had said it was the goddess of music, Deacon the goddess of song and dance. His brother had scoffed when Perseus said he should know, he was the guy who killed Medusa. But like brothers, the two weren't going to back down.

He clicked his tongue ring against his teeth, looking over the spines of the books so he could read the titles slowly. He'd seen the book he wanted here before. Now finding it would be the problem.

[lorin elias brandt]

One might think the library a strange place for a blind kid to go but when the blind kid was Lorin it was only natural. He liked the soft flavor of quiet the shelves upon shelves of books provided as well as the dusty smell of all those books. He'd arrived at this place, Chaspel Heights, only last night and whatever he had thought he was getting into was clearly wrong. He had assumed it was another special school of blind kids. After all, he could only know what his father had told him and it seemed that his father hadn't told him jack shit. Ass.

So Lorin had spent his free time through the day shuffling around with his stick and getting horrendously lost. Whoever designed this building had not had blind people in mind. Inconsiderate piece of shit. Still, he had found his way to the library and libraries were good places to decompress even if they didn't have any books Lorin could actually read. It was a real shame that Braille books were so damn bulky. He would have to see if they had audio books. If they didn't he was going to make the librarian read him books.

In lue of a readable book, audio book, or personal slave librarian, Lorin bumbled around the library and blindly screwed up the book order, grabbing a few books from one shelf and shoving them in somewhere else. Humming to himself, he wreaked havoc on the Dewey Decimal System with total abandon until he crashed head long into another human. "Fuck! Shit!" he yelped, dropping the books held in the crook of his arm and flailing wildly for the nearest sturdy thing to brace himself on.

[perseus james rudman]

Perseus didn't think much about being ran into. He was always being treated like no one saw him. But the fact people kept seeming to fall was what almost concerned him. First that boy Connor. Now this kid. And his brother was always falling. But Deacon was a freak to begin with. Graceful wasn't his forte. "Well. Don't die." Perseus said, looking back down at the book he had in his hand. He read over the index, then put it back with a sigh. He couldn't find anything he needed to today. Bandit. This book. Everything he wanted was out of place and he hated it.

"Okay. This is seriously pissing me off." He muttered, standing on his tip toes to read the books on the shelf above him. 'Deac and my parents should have had taller kids. This is for the birds..' He thought bitterly, stretching to get a book that caught his eye. "You okay? No broken bones?" He finally asked the boy, glancing back at him before he returned his attention to the book he'd just gotten. Perseus clicked his tongue ring against his teeth again as he read over the index of this new book. One might think the fact he gave little thought to people being hurt was odd. But growing up watching his mother beat his brother all the time, pain to others seemed second nature by now.