(( Another cute student and a scary monster is more than welcome. ))

Sofia looks up. The sun carefully falls behind the mountains near Shokushu. It has been a long day for the girl, with class and extracurricular activities, but she knew that despite the sun calling it quits, her day is far from over.

"I just don't get it..." Sofia looks down on her paper. An unanswered Calculus problem hovers around a sea of wrong calculations. Sofia loved English, history, philosophy, art and many other subjects, but she knew no torture worse than math. Well, she now know worse torture since she's been in the island.

She rests her chin on her hand and stares longingly outside. The sky was orange and a rust-like hue covers the island. It's beautiful, she thought, but she couldn't make herself leave, she despised leaving homework unfinished.

She looks around, the library was almost barren. A few students were packing up their things and readying themselves to go. Sofia sighs, she didn't want to be alone in the cavernous library.

Damn it Have to worry about monsters and the students now... Wouldn't be worth it if I liked being so girl like in public.

The drag king thought to himself as she adjusted her white button down which was slightly torn the top button popped. She had a bit of blood on her knuckles and lipstick on her face. this had been a first but, it seemed at least a few of the students so starved for a man their age they'd resort to being as bad as the monsters to get him. She shook her head as she walked closer to the front of the library until she saw a student that wasn't familiar to her looking a bit frustrated with something. She approached silently looking over Sofia's shoulder for a time looking over her calculations. As one of the last students left the library Darwin pointed down to one of her failed calculations.

"I'm no expert but... that one's almost right..."

She told the other girl in her usual male voice taking a pencil and spare scrap of paper from her pocket she re-wrote Sofia's calculation then the corrected one and let it drift onto the table it was easy to see the mistake at that point.

Sofia bites her lower lip. She never liked being corrected, even in a subject she didn't excel at. Sometimes she'd rather fail than have someone else point out her mistake. Still, she inhales deeply and returns a polite smile.

"Huh...?" Sofia says while tilting her head. "Oh dear, not again.... I thought this was a girl's school..."

She laughed slightly thinking for a few moments how to best put this without giving away that she wasn't a he. She stretched a little rubbing her hand over her hair trying to think well enough.

"It's a long story and I'd rather not tell it again today."

It was a lame excuse as far as this sort of thing went but, it was all she could come up with at a moment's notice. she motioned to her slightly torn shirt the missing button & the lipstick then showed the blood on the back of her hand.

"But, you can trust me I'm not one of those rumored things that rape students when they're alone... in fact it's more common the student's try to rape me."

she faked a nervous chuckle as she took a seat next to Sofia with a deep relaxed sigh.

"Can't believe it took me this long to fight off that girl I'm Darwin Quincy by the way."

"Let me guess," Sofia asks while tapping her pencil on her chin, ""You're a tomboy that takes it a tad further, I take it? If that's the case..." She returns to her work and writes down the answer to the question, "...then I won't pry your story even further."

For the next problem, Sofia scribbles some equations and punched in numbers in her calculator. "Also," Sofia says, "you needn't worry about me chasing you. I have self-control and will not do that, and I have my Ethan to long for while I'm here."

She places her pencil down and extends her hand, "Oh. And I'm Sofia Chevalier... charmed."

Darwin just stared a bit at Sofia & how easily she just guessed something that a few dozen people couldn't. She opened her mouth to speak closed it then just laughed looking about slightly nodding a bit dropping the false voice for her real one.

"Was it instinct, obvious or just a guess?"

She asked shaking Sofia's hand politely still smiling slightly brighter when she said she had someone waiting for her back home and that she had self-control. this was all wonderful news for the drag-king.

"Going to have to thank the fae that I've met someone who can control themselves I might not believe in love but, I'm glad someone does for once... Aye it's great to meet ya! The red hair bit of Irish in your blood I take it?"

Muttering under her breath, the quarter-Japanese girl dropped her textbook heavily onto a desk in the corner of the library, pulling out a chair roughly. She was in a bad mood... she was trying her hardest to grasp her subjects, but even WITH help, she was barely getting by!

'Hardly the progress of someone trying to surge forwards into the future instead of dawdling like I've been...' she thinks darkly, flipping through the pages a little. It doesn't take her long to get bored of it; her gaze starts to wander through the mostly empty library... pausing as she gets sight of a red-haired girl and a boy talking. A boy?? She blinked twice, just staring, but not moving yet. '...That can't be right...' She rubs her eyes a bit, then just watches them curiously.

((Hope you don't mind me poking in with the invitation!))

(( I do mind!! Grrr.... ehehe kidding, more than happy to have you! ))

Sofia smiles softly, "Well, it's not like the school has incompetent administrators that let a boy slip through the tracks. It's not that hard if you give it some thought."

Sofia runs her hand through her brilliant red hair, "Irish?" she asks, "I wouldn't doubt it... my family's... well traveled across Europe."

"Regardless..." Sofia reaches out and runs her fingers through the fabric of Darwin's clothes. "You seem too well dressed... and so much attention to detail, a feminine touch. Either you are a woman or a woman dresses you. I pray it's not the latter."

"Or gay could have been gay or just old fashioned or maybe a really young teacher or something... hey wait... what feminine touch? I go out of my way to try & rip the feminine touch out of my style."

She stared a bit frustrated at Sofia's words but soon just forgot and shrugged before continuing in her male voice

"Going to have to try harder when I get dressed after class tomorrow."

She smirked with a nod touching her hand made clothes wondering if perhaps it was her skill tailoring that made her clothes seem just a bit too well kept for her to be a guy.

"So how about the voice then?"

she didn't comment on how well traveled her family was seeing as a bit personal for a first conversation.