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Finally, with your shift over, you get a confirmation message of your pay the instant you leave the Reassembler bay and gather up your things to make the trek home. You're excited; tonight you'll have some free time to play the newest tactical sim with your online buddies! But as is tradition, many students mill about the main hall waiting for their friends and family members to get done with their shifts so they can walk, climb, or swim home together. You happen to see two people who you think you might want to leave with...
The first is your new Alpha friend Forja. He's a Jaxtian, so they travel via jump poles instead of walking on foot, but as it happens he is going in the same direction as you for at least the first leg of your journey. You could maybe catch up with him or learn some boxing tips, and strengthen your new friendship! Though knowing him, he'll probably want to talk about Vetucker girls or something when nobody else is in earshot. It's not that you mind guy talk, you just hope he's not a total weirdo...
But you also see another, this one a Vetucker. Her name is <span class="mu-s">Una</span>, and she's alone. You always feel bad for her; Vetucker women always walk around in groups as per the herding instinct, but as a member of the “longhorn” Vetucker ethnicity, a different tribe known for their very large horns, darker coloration, and big bodies, she isn't as tightly knit with the other female Vetuckers at your school and often ends up sitting or walking by herself. It's not like she's in any danger; this planet was cleansed of all hostile life decades and decades ago before you were even born; but you know that she'd much happier to be beside another Vetucker even if you have nothing in common.
Of course, you could just go home by yourself. You're a young man, in your prime, and tomorrow you got a day off from these courses and work and you've got a fat wallet of your pay; you're excited! You'd be able to make it home much faster if you went by yourself.
Who should you walk home with?
>Forja
>Una
>Rush home by yourself
