The faint scent of sweat permeated the locker room area, girls going to and from their various sports activities, along with the gentle scent of various perfumes. The large metal lockers clanged frequently as people put in and took out their personal effects on the way about the locker room.

The shadows created by the large metallic edifices was an excellent hiding ground for Siolazar, who had been watching girl's come and go all day. The pool of dusky blackness had been wanting to test a hypothesis, but it had not seen any suitable subjects. So, it merely sat and quivered in the shadows, once quickly running it's caress over the leg of one girl as she walked by, but nothing more.

I had waited until no one was left before i entered the lockers. I walked slowly to my locker and turned the dial on my lock... I wore the regular school uniform unlike the other girls however I had kept my gym shorts on beneath the skirt. I pulled out my bag and dug around before finding my penlight and pocketing it along with a magnifyer attachment for my glasses and a few tools to work with. The locker room was one of my workshops... it was here I designed things for sports activities; today I was designing a headband that might assist someone in balance. I looked at the device and began making minor adjustments to the circuit relays as i stood placing my bag beside the bench and sitting down not worrying about my skirt as i took the pen and turned it to the side opposite the flashlight and carefully touched it to a thin metal coil that i held steady with my teeth. it melted swiftly and connected the small capacitor to the equally small board.

"If all my calculations are right this should be done... now just need to work with getting the case right..."
I returned the band to the bag to pull out some paper and began writing a few equations onto it.

As the rest of the girls filed out of the locker room, Siolazar trembled with boredom as it saw the potential for an experiment slipping away, and it produced a sense of urgency and no slight annoyance.

However, the potential answer to it's quandry was solved as another girl entered the locker room. This was not a completely unfortuitous event, as it provided opportunity. As the girl sat down, the shadowy pool slipped quickly between pools of greyish black, using the fact that she was paying close attention to her work, until it was near her feet. Looking upwards, it took close inspection of her, leaving no part of her not viewed, taking a bit of amusement in the fact that she was wearing her gym shorts beneath her skirt. Perhaps just a small test to begin, and then a bit of shadow poked at her shadows foot, curious as to what she would do.

I felt something at my feet, I glanced around at the floor for a moment and shined the flashlight on my pen that wasn't a pen under the bench... I saw nothing and shrugged slightly.

"Nerve spasm... ah well nothing to worry about."
I returned to my writing I sung a wordless melody as I wrote now; I tried not to go too high with my pitch to prevent the mirrors in the lockers from breaking... I was lucky no one seemed to notice the broken glass in the rooms where i'd been forced to scream. My mind slowly began to drift away from my work to my melody; I changed it slightly and began to sing a rendition of nightwish's nemo.

Looking up, Siolazar felt a twinge of anticipation as the girl passed off his touch as nothing more than a passing twitch. The vibration in the air caused by her singing was amusing to it, and the inky pool quivered in joy at the prospects.

Focusing a moment, Siolazar slid into the girl's shadow, becoming part of it for the moment, and it pushed her arm's shadow to cause her to mess up her writing, and waited for her to respond.

My hand suddenly jolted across my paper I Blinked in amazement; It had felt like something pushed me... but there was no one else around. I tried to think of what it could be...had I been host to a paranormal phenomina or maybe a localized spacial anomily.
I pulled more tools from my bag, a few mechanical gauges andother devices.

"em field is only .2... dark matter density is... a little high under the bench but not abnormally so, gravity is roughly normal... what the fuck was that?"

I scratched my head and returned the devices to their place with a sigh. I put the paper away after copying what I had already written.

Siolazar quivered for a moment, pondering on what to do with its subject, who seemed to be completely unaware of its presence, except for vaguely with her equipment. Perhaps he would take a more aggressive route with this one.

Pulling all of its body into one place, Siolazar drew in shadows from the area around it, causing some of the surrounding areas to lose their shadows completely, which to someone with sharp eyes, is suspicious in and of itself.

"What... The... Fuck!??!"
I jolted from my seat sudenly glancing at the lockers then down and then to origin of light I had pulled my tools to examine expecting to find some sort of miniature bend in space time bending the light away but I found nothing. I shivered glancing around slowly until I noticed the shadows gathering to one place. I stepped towards it slightly my mind reeling on the possibilities but, at the same time I was curious what was happening.

"My my what is causing you my little physical impossibility?"
I said to what i believed was myself as I watched the spot grow.

As the shadows continued drawing themselves towards Siolazar, it looked up at the face of the being examining him, and it quivered as it was noticed. With a bit of a wry inner smile, Siolazar shaped itself into a copy of her face to look back at her, tongue stuck out a bit, and it slithered away from beneath the bench to the other side of the lockers quickly.

As it made it to the other side, it slid into a locker, concealing itself within the darkness so that the girl would have to investigate. This is where it would spring its experiment upon the his unwitting participant.

"So it's sentient... And a damned wise ass..."
I smirked following where the shadow had gone, my flashlight pen lit up. I glanced into locker after locker seeing what my pen could show me; hoping to catch a glimpse of whatever this creature was in it's real form.

"come out come out where ever you are my little sentient subject, If i catch you I can prove to the world of alien existance... where are you? I only want to trap you and enslave you to fund my work!"

Murky darkness that it was, Siolazar hid in the locker, pressing itself to the bottom as the girl walked past with her blasted pen light, the thing stinging its form. It was annoying, but ultimately not debilitating enough to truly matter.

As she passed, the shadowborn's form oozed from the bottom of the locker, sliding along the floor to follow her, concealing itself in her shadow as she moved, the perfect hiding place. What to do, what to do. She wanted proof did she...it would give her the proof that she wanted if she did well enough in the experiment.

"Oh come on, I'll take good care of you, I even have a nice dark windowless box for you to rest in complete with night vision and infared video equipment... come on don't be shy now... I'm sure if you eat I can get you food or whatever your prefered feeding item is."

I continued to sing out looking until I finally decided it had fled from whatever it had been trying to do. I sighed taking a seat on the bench behind me.

"Oh well I suppose my warp drive capable ship, my warp drive and my phase canon will have to wait until I get a government grant... too bad too... I already have to first plausable formula for all of them too..."

I pouted slightly crossing my les slightly cursing under my breath

As the girl paced about looking for her quarry, she was completely unaware that her quarry was hunting her, the formless mass quite literally underfoot. As she sat down, Siolazar looked up from beneath the bench and it quivered in amusement at how easily she was thrown off. Now, however, it was time to begin his experiment.

Leaking up the wall behind her like some sort of reverse waterfall, the shadowborn allowed himself to suffuse the shadows behind her with its being, forcing it to bend to its will. Reaching out with some of it's own form and essence, Siolazar wrapped its 'hand' around her shadow's and held it tightly, moving it over to the pad of paper and the writing utensil, and forcing her to write a message.

"For being so inquisitive, you give up far too easily."

I didn't shout as it forced me to write I only smiled with a bit of a chuckle.

"Hiding in my shadow huh, and lookie here you can even manipulate my body through the shadow... and I can feel your touch how wonderful! do you like high pitched sound waves? I know most things don't..."

I slowly began to sing after it had written; I decided to experiment on the thing as it gripped my hand and I knew where it was. my pitch increased a bar at a time the mirrors in the room began to quiver as I reached my highest picth they began to crack. then I stopped, wanting a reaction from the creature my throat just slightly sore from the strain an my breath was just slightly quicker trying to recover for the time i held the note unbreathing.

A gentle quiver of the shadowform was the only reaction to the high pitched sound, the motion transferring to her wrist. The hand moved again as it manipulated her body.

"You are intelligent and mostly correct, but to one with no ears, your sonic assult does nothing."

With that, the shallow pool of abyss stretched to fully conform to her form, forming a perfect fascimile. Taking some of the shadow that it drew from the rest of the room, it placed it over her mouth, completely eliminating any noise she was going to make. Once again, the hand moved to scribble a message.

"Though your screams may attract attention that I do not want. Now, the experiment shall continue.