Gertrud ignored the remarks from Simone, flinching only slightly as he tore the weapon tag from himself. She refrained from going into verbal sparring with her weapon, it was a waste of words was what she would say publicly, but he also had the better wit for retorts. He had pointed out a girl somewhere in the crowd, which she strained to see among the sea of faces. Weapons and meisters were an incredibly colorful bunch but throw a clown in a circus and they suddenly became hard to pick out. As it turned out she wasn't going to find who she was looking for. A blue haired woman stepped into her field of view, looking a shade discontented. Already? Gertrud thought, mentally bracing for the worst. Who had she crossed and how had she forgotten them? A surprising turn, her case was recent. A reminder to Trude to speak even less in public. The blue girl explained her case, Trude nodded solemnly as she did so, noting her points. She disliked arguments but felt she at least owed an explanation to the newly introduced Lena, again, not that she had anywhere else to be. 
"I can't deny the importance of building the relationship between weapon and meister," She said, crossing her arms. "But then what is the rest of orientation day for? Keeping us all from work out here in the heat is a waste of all our time."
Trude sighed and looked down. It was definitely the heat causing this, great adversary that it was. She extended a hand to Lena, offering a handshake for a greeting even if it was a little old fashioned. It was also a bit of an apology, or felt like it. 
"My complaining isn't changing anything anyway. Pleased to meet you Lena, I'm Gertrud Linysova, and this is Simone Mustang." She motioned to the boy standing apart from her, and resisted the urge to commentate lest the morning descend into more lively debate between her and her weapon. "Have you had any luck finding a meister yet?" Trude asked, looking back to the crowd. "The new faces seem especially lively this year." She hung on the word lively with something almost resembling distaste. It was a synonym for raucous in her dictionary.