What sort of deviant engineer would give such a large golem the voice of a female child? Ier-Briar wasn’t exactly sure, but he decided to mark it up as the fetish of that golem’s creator. Mariam Machina was a similarly feminine name, even though there really wasn’t anything else that was ‘girlish’ about that. Waving off her suggestions of him being one of those mechanical imitations of humans, Ier-Briar replied, tapping his armored hand against his breastplate, [b]“Not an android, Mariam, but a Gemstone, a being made out of crystals, with full control of their body. Though, admittedly, I’m still working on the control part.”[/b]

Soon, however, another interesting thing was revealed. The headmaster of the school was a gemstone. An odd one that voluntarily confined himself to the form of a mere stone, but still, Ier-Briar could tell, instinctually, that the Headmaster was a much older being than himself, even if the heavily armored child counted the centuries it took him to properly develop. He wasn’t exactly sure why the speech had been so eccentric and crazy, but there was probably a reason for his madness. A weird reason that he didn’t know of, but still a reason.

As more announcements shot by and brochures and dorms were mentioned, the Gemstone face Mariam once more and asked,[b] “Guess they’ve set up a special building for you to rest in then?”[/b]