>>5417083<span class="mu-s">Several years later.</span>
<span class="mu-i">“O people of space! Now is the time to awaken! To realize your latent potential! We are at the dawn of a transformation of mankind. A true enlightenment of the human race. And we may finally be poised, ready to transcend what has always been thought of as the impossible- infinite space, and time itself.”</span>
-Zeon Zum Deikun, UC 0065
1:00 PM, 14 July, UC 0071
Teabolo estate, Andalusia, Spain
The last few years have been peaceful. Teabolo Mass, a wealthy man and close friend of your late father, adopted you and your siblings shortly after you arrived on earth with Jimba. You’ve lived in Teabolo’s villa, really more of a castle, in Andalusia for the last three years, and assumed new names as a precaution against Zabi plots. Artesia is now known as Sayla, Casval has taken the name Édouard, and you are Maxime. Jimba has grown strange over the years, turning more and more paranoid, but the old man still lives with you despite his regular disappearances on business.
Over the past three years you’ve grown and learned a lot. You and Casval, or rather "Édouard," are notably quite tall and athletic for your age but still just eleven and twelve years old respectively. You adoptive father Teabolo has provided for your every need, and your education provided by private instructors has been excellent and well ahead of what even some of the best regarded private schools back in Side 3, now known as the <span class="mu-i">Republic of Zeon</span> after the Zabis changed the name, could have provided.
The sun is still high in the sky, many hours of daylight left; what is it that you’re doing?
>You’re out with Sayla helping tend to some of the sick people in a refugee camp nearby. There’s an international charity running the place and it’s actually quite safe; you’ve grown closer to Artesia and really learned to connect with strangers over the last few years as you’ve helped around the camp.>You’re with Édouard in the courtyard, practicing shooting. Not with actual firearms, though Mr. Teabolo does have a few of those and you’ve had occasion to fire them, but instead with a pair of high powered air rifles. You’ve really bonded as brothers, though you often have different ways of doing things. 