"Have you ever thought of me as more than human?"

This is what Esmeralda said to me one day, a few weeks ago.  I was pretty flustered.  I scrambled around for an answer, hoping to come up with something that wasn't "No, last I checked, you were pretty normal to me."  I think that I just awkwardly told her no.  She seemed disappointed, but told me that it was ok, because it was pretty rare.  "Hmmm," I thought, and probably said.  Although if I vocalized it, I probably said it more like, "Hmmm?"

About a week after this exchange, she told me that the group on campus that which she had become involved in, the Society for Esoteric Exploration, had determined that she was, indeed, an otherworldly character.  I also discovered that it is considered bad manners and pretty serious to disclose this fact to others, so I won't go into any details about just what exactly she believes herself to be.  But suffice it to say, I realized at that moment that this year was going to be more interesting than I had anticipated.