[i]‘Breathe… just keep breathing.’[/i] Taking slower and deeper breaths, Veili began to calm down. Albeit the moment he opened his eyes and saw the crap he was dealing with, the senior student had a hard time keeping that sense of calm. He could only assume this guard was new around here, or just overeager, but whatever the reason was, Veili didn’t appreciate being stopped in the slightest. “Look,” he growled out in annoyance, [b]“I’ve already told you, I have authorization to carry this around since I’m selling it. Hell, I wouldn’t even be holding onto it anymore if you hadn’t decided to stick your nose where it doesn’t belong.”[/b] While the attitude probably wasn’t the best idea, Veili had never been one for politeness.

“And I’ve already told you, you’re going to wait here until I get this checked out,” the guard replied with a smirk as he leaned on the butt of his polearm, taking this almost casually. It made the urge to simply smash the man’s face in all the harder to resist for Veili. Tightening the grip around his creation, Veili grimaced to push down the urge before he turned away and stalked up to lean against a nearby wall. He very nearly lost it as he caught the guard whisperin, “Yeah, that’s right brat.” Unable to simply assault a guard under the Academy’s employment, but needing some way to release his anger, his eyes strayed to the weapon in hand. 

Wrapped in cloth, the sword was hid from the public’s view. It was not a thing of beauty, but a longsword of simple design and aesthetics. Yet, when he plunged it into the ground with a grunt of anger, it had little trouble burying half its blade into the earth. Standing up and away from the still quivering hilt, he grinned ever so slightly in satisfaction at the results of his work. The fact that the guards eyes bulged out at the result was obviously unrelated. The cloth drifted ever so slightly, still concealing what was underneath, but it was almost pointless now. There was a weapon underneath, almost everybody would be able to tell. Still, the whole point of him concealing his creation had been in agreement with the Academy, and seeing as how one of its guards had still decided to stop him, he saw little meaning in following the rules set out; at least in the situation. 

And while he had blown off some steam with that action, he still did have a meeting with his client to get to. Hopefully someone competent would decide to show up and fix this problem. It was way too early in the year for Veili to be dealing with this type of crap, especially seeing how he had even come to the Academy earlier to finish the piece.