[sub] [color=#B9BABC] O A K R I D G E  A C A D E M Y[/color] 	[color=d8996d]Ezra Malchet[/color][/sub]
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Ezra walked down the pathways of the Academy in a joyless strut, quietly traversing the halls of the Academy. From up above, the rays of the gleaming sun beat down on head and shined through his long and flowing black hair until he approached deeper into the Academy. His gunsword was slung onto his back, held inside a hard black sheath slung over him with a thick black leather strap. As he walked through the Academy, weapon slung over his back, he came to realize that this was indeed farewell to the Academy. So far hectic events had not yet allowed the feeling of departure to flow through him, but now Ezra could feel it now, with everything fiber in him now telling him that he was leaving his home. Even so, he dared not give a glance back for fear he might end up mired in the feelings of nostalgia he may not be able to escape easily.

He looked onward towards his destination, the journey’s true end as far as his life at the Academy was concerned. In front of Ezra stood the displacement device, contained deep inside the Academy. Ezra gazed at it, the stationary device gently glowing. From there he would be whisked away to an unfamiliar land in but the time of a mere moment. Graduation had flown past him quicker than he could have ever imagined, and now standing before him was the moment when he was to truly become a Guardian. It no longer was merely a title, which was his to wave around in pride as he pondered all on all the effort he had exerted to receive it. It was now a responsibility, and as the moments passed by this was becoming elucidated to Ezra more and more. 

As he walked forward, it seemed to Ezra that he was not yet ready. The thoughts that had flowed through his mind and interrupted his train of thought were not altered by his epiphany of the truth of the current change, even with his realization of the new reality. He was unsure of what this meant, and what it ought to mean to him. When he gazed back at the Academy he saw the past, yet the portal in front of him forewarned of the future. However, what is was that so teared at his mind was neither, but rather the present. There was something he had left unfinished in his life here, and if he left untouched as it were he would feel its burden weighing down upon him.

At the moment the realization came that he had left the greatest friend he had ever know and ever shall know hanging. True, she had lied to him, deceived him, and had played her part in leading him astray, yet he knew those things alone were not enough to weigh against the merits of her friendship and allow for him to abandon her in good virtue. He knew now that he could not leave things as they were now and ever expect to every leave here as person fulfilled. He needed to make things right with his one and greatest friend, Jaina Madison, who had help carry him throughout his life, and who shared a bond with him which no other would ever come to approach.

Yet even though that realization had come, Ezra would not have the luck he would have so craved. Jaina was nowhere to be found. Searching high and low, in the areas which she often visited, in areas that she tended not to, and he even searched through her own quarters, but Ezra had no luck in finding her. He knew that he must be running out of time, as the hour of departure had dawned. He turned back, and arrived once again to the displacement device dwelling deep in the Academy. His hopes dashed, there remained only one option in order for him to leave satisfied. He would return alive from this mission, and she would continue alive from hers, and the pair of them would reconcile.

As Ezra had headed there, he saw a pair of other students which he had seldom seen here at the Academy, but he still knew well enough that they were former students recently graduated from Oakridge, the same as him. To look at them was to look at the sun and the moon or light and darkness, like some kind of duality or dialectic. Odder was the fact that they seemed to be walking together, which revealed that they knew each other well enough to have arrived to the mission together. 

“So, are the two of you also going to Doral?” Ezra said as he prepared to go further in.

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[sub] [color=#B9BABC] O A K R I D G E  A C A D E M Y[/color] 	[color=1a7b30]Jaina Madison[/color][/sub]

Jaina took one last look at the Academy, taking in all her memories which laid there. Then her head turned back, and she looked onward towards the future. It had been a pity that Ezra had not taken to heart her efforts for reconciliation, and the two of them could not depart from each other as friends. Now she would leave with a great regret, too late for further action in that course to be chased.

Jaina held her weapon in her hands, a specialized assault rifle equipped with both a scope and silencer, rifle loaded with the clip firmly plugged in at the bottom.  At her sides sat her heavy pistol held in her holster and her short sword inside its sheath that hanged off of her belt. Jaina wore the uniform specialized forces of the army, clad from head to toe in heavy black armor. A guardian she was not, and consequentially her appearance bear no resemblance on their kind. Her job was to accompany them in combat and assist them as one who was apart from them, yet their equal nonetheless. She was to overcome the gap that control over magic gave through sheer ability, achieving excellence in the things a mere human can achieve.

Jaina stood guard near the transportation trucks which would take them all away to the Nexus Reactor. She gave a gentle smile to the Guardians as they approached. She hoped, even with her position as an outsider, that she would be able to gain a few friends here. She would worried that they might see her merely as an interloper, but she hoped that that thought was in vain.

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The conflicted Ezra decides that it would be good to reconcile with his friend Jaina, but he is unable to find her when he looks. He decides he will reconcile when both of them come back alive. Then he heads back to the where it is that he will depart, and comes across Charles and Morganna, and asks if they are also departing for Doral. Meanwhile, Jaina is standing guard at the land vehicles that will take her and the Guardians to the Nexus Reactor.
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