>>5833482The yard reeks figuratively and literally of poverty, the have-nots. Those who can’t afford Gillian’s accommodation fees are thrown out in the cold, the headmaster powerless to stop her lest he loses one of the only sources of revenue necessary for running the school and training the next generation of warriors against the Grimm, dark and soulless monsters, seeking only the destruction of mankind.
As you walk among the tattered tents and improvised homes, you spot your targets near the fountain.
Narci Pink and Typhu Tornadus, partners and the N and T of your team. Typhu appears to be running in circles around the fountain with some crystals attached to her arms while Narci berates her.
“I said swifter you muscle-brained girl!” Narci demands in a posh voice.
“Alright! I never get to run at full speed so much, thank you so much!” Typhu speeds up, her powerful legs pushing her faster and faster until she seems almost like a blur.
Narci checks the screen from her scroll with a manic smile. “Yes, it works-!” She’s interrupted by the crystals in Typhu’s arms shining brightly before exploding. Typhu is unharmed but Narci falls into the fountain from sheer surprise.
“Oh my gosh, are you okay Narci?” Typhu rushes to her dripping partner.
“What were you doing you imbecile?! You charged way too much energy!”
“But you said I needed to run faster…”
“W-well, I said swiftER not swiftEST. Night and day.”
“Oh, I see.”
“Narci, Typhu, good day.” You approach the pair.
“Leader!” Typhu happily waves.
“Sir!” Narci stands up straight and salutes you, hitting herself in the face with some wet flora from the fountain.
“What were you doing?”
“Having fun!”
“Running laps at full speed under forty degrees heat?”
“Yep!”
“Ahem, I was testing a hypothesis. As you know, Dust is present as an energy source and in our very ammunition, but it needs to be kickstarted and depending on how it is the power expelled differs greatly.”
“Yes, you pump more Aura into it and it’s stronger, I use gravity Dust, what’s the point?”
“Well, I’m testing whether we can kick start Dust using nothing but kinetic energy, a possible easily renewable energy machine.”
“Did it work?”
“It exploded,” Typhu says.
“It’s progress!”
“Explosions are progress?”
“That is the main pillar of science you fool!”
You had enough girl bickering for today so you change the subject. “Where’s Charlie?”
“Here mistress.” Charlie seemingly appears out of nowhere from the blindspot of you three, startling both girls and making Narci fall back in the fountain.
“Charlie,” you say in a neutral tone, “you know I’m not a girl.”
“Of course mistress, you can be whatever you want.” Charlie hands you an envelope. “A letter for you arrived this morning.”
“I have somewhere for letters to arrive?”
“Yes we all do. I check it every morning.”
