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Xandra put down her fork, wondering if she should be honest...Jeremy seemed like quite the skeptic, but if he knew about the mark in the picture...maybe she could talk to him about it.

"N-no," she said at last, looking down at the table so that her bangs covered her face, "I had a nightmare about a ghost hurting you guys, especially Odd. And I keep seeing this symbol...like a target, but not...it seems new to me, but I had to have seen it before."

She looked up at him, worry and concern showing in her eyes, "I didn't notice until last night, but the very same symbol is in the picture of my parents. I think it's following me...whatever it is. The same symbol appeared on Polaris, and it talked to me, comforted me...I think it likes me, Jeremy."

She took a dainty bite of her waffle and sipped her orange juice, wondering exactly how Jeremy would take to it.

Jeremy nodded to Xandra and said "well, I think I might have seen the symbol. Can you draw it for me?" He looked at Odd with disgust and he reached down to grab a roll. He ate it slowly and said to Odd "you know that food is not going anywhere. You can slow down for once."

Xandra giggled a bit at Odd's sudden arrival; she was rather comforted that he broke the somber mood of the breakfast thus far. Jeremy, however, snapped her back to reality with his request. She looked over at Odd and, with a sigh, pulled a pen from her small purse, pulling a spare napkin off her tray.

The pen trembled slightly in her left hand as she lowered it toward the paper; the only times she had seen the symbol, besides in the picture, was when the ghost was inside the item. What if drawing it on purpose invoked him?

She shielded her work from their eyes and started with a large dot on the paper, surrounding it with a pair of circles and then another. She shaded those in before drawing the four branches and coloring them, shaking all over as she gazed on her completed work. Flipping the napkin over, she slid it face down to Jeremy, not wanting to disturb Odd's meal. "That's it," she said quietly, "that's what I've been seeing..."

She glanced down at her own and realized she had lost her appetite...the nervousness had started to get to her. She looked over at Odd, who still was eating like he had been starved for a week. He said he had missed dinner...so did she, but she wasn't nearly as hungry nor as tired. Sometimes she wondered where she got her energy from...

Aelita was late as well to breakfast and arrived after Odd. She grabbed a try and took some food sparingly wich was a total oppostie of Odd's breakfast. Aelita made her way to where the others were sitting and sat down with them. "Whats up guys?"

Aelita sat ther stunned almost chocking on her breakfast when Jeremy began to invite Xandra with out even getting to truely know her.

That was no excuse Aelita thought to herself. Aelita was mad again because of Jeremy's attitude. She wanted to leave but decided to sit and wait to see how it turns out.

((Sorry, guys...was out of town for the weekend.))

Xandra blinked a little bit, surprised to find that she was right about his knowledge of the symbol. However, his comment about it never doing nice things to him made her even more nervous. She listened to his offer, and while Aelita didn't really seem to want to tell her, curiosity was getting the best of her. She opened her mouth to speak, but her voice locked up. Part of her didn't want any more trauma for the day, but she was dying to know what she was facing.

"I...I am concerned," she finally said, stuttering slightly, "about him...he was kind to me, but you claim it's malevolent...the symbol that's in my past yet I have no recollection of it before yesterday..."

She sighed, calming and bracing herself for whatever was ahead. "Jeremy, what is haunting me, and what does it want?"