‘I hope you’re all as excited as I am!’ shouted a girl’s voice causing Maddox to look up from the window her head was resting on. Even though the helicopter was whirring all around and often experienced turbulence, Maddox still managed to somewhat rest. ‘It’s a bumpy ride, isn’t it?’ With her eyes on the girl she refrained from rolling her eyes. She wasn’t particularly interested in having a conversation with someone, especially not someone who was [i]this[/i] excited for a job. She supposed it was because the corporation said there were magic wielders – or mages – located at their destination. Maddox didn’t really know what to believe. It sounded like a cheap joke for a reality TV-show and nothing more, but seeing how much Maniacles evolved and innovated over the years, something like magic shouldn’t be such a surprise. It probably wouldn’t even be [i]real[/i] magic. Most likely it was just some fancy new-generation tech that looked like how magic was portrayed in films and literature, so they likely just called it magic. Still, fancy tech would be all kinds of awesome and even though she wouldn’t just admit it, she was quite exited right now.

Suddenly it seemed like everyone was talking to the raven-haired girl and it made her wonder how much she missed whilst being lost in thought. ‘We’re in a helicopter.’ She replied to the young blonde man. ‘What’s she going to do? Jump out of it after she robbed you? Swim hundreds of miles to the shore? Not even accounting for the changing of the tides and the current that keeps pushing you further away from shore.’ Maddox knew perfectly well that he meant the short girl should look out for Maryln [i]after[/i] they landed, but it still felt like an unnecessary thing to say. No one here really knew each other, meaning you always had to watch out for the others. You don’t know what they’d done. They could be killers, thieves, spies or even dealers such like Maddox.  In all fairness, the short girl didn’t look at all like a killer or someone who would even hurt a person. Heck, it wouldn’t surprise her if she refused to kill a bunny, but no matter what Maddox thought when seeing her, she knew better than to assume things. For all she knew the girl could in fact be a vicious killer, although that would be quite surprising.

Maddox shortly looked at the large dog beneath the girl’s feet. Even though the helicopter was, by all standers, huge, the size of the dog was still a little too large for Maddox to sit comfortably. Most of the ride her legs were scrounged up to the sides of the doors, forcing her in a small corner. She didn’t complain about it at all during the trip. It wouldn’t be too long of a trip and even if she complained, it wasn’t as if that was going to solve anything. The helicopter wouldn’t magically increase in size, just as the dog would not decrease in its size. She just had to suck it up for the rest of the trip.