[center][h1] Blood Iron Princess [/h1][/center]

[color=lightcoral] “...That’s a good question.” [/color] Serene’s response was a strange one. She’d been raised to advance her family’s plans, to advance the corporation. But to be asked what she herself aspired for? That was a tough question, but after what felt like an eternity of thinking, she turned her head to look back at Caster. [color=lightcoral] “Knowledge, to uncover the mysteries of the stars, to keep pushing the foundation of mankind higher and higher. I want to send us beyond the stars. We’ve sent spacecraft beyond our own solar system...why not mankind itself? I want...the future, I guess.” [/color] A strange statement, but understandable perhaps, to someone who believed in raising humanity to new heights, to birth a new era. She doubted it would be done by her in her lifetime...but she’d push onwards no matter what.

She paused for a few moments longer, then sighed softly. [color=lightcoral] "If you don't want to do something immediately involving your workshop, since we're not in a rush...you wanna go into town, or something? I mean, we're in the city but...I just got here earlier." [/color] A light red dusted Serene's cheeks, a clue to her own lack of social skills, coupled with the overall...new kid deal. She'd have to report in that night to her father, so the former magus hunter turned tech mogul wouldn't get too worried. Last thing she needed was for her parents to come to town...especially her mom. The thought of her mother made Serene shudder, sure, great woman and all, but...she had her reasons for not wanting her mother to go to the trouble of coming. But enough. She turned back to Caster, looking towards Da Vinci, before then looking towards the short maze of corridors that led to the front of the estate. [color=lightcoral] "If you want, we can go out via the front door, or we can exit via the kitchen...hopefully the guards won't mind. Then again, not like they can stop us from doing what we want...and hell, I wanna go find some chocolate, there's like, a convenience store not too far from here, I think? Dunno...saw it on the drive. And the arena...I wonder if we can catch a match later." [/color]

And just like that, Serene was immersed in her own thoughts, the kind that would require more than a loud voice to knock her out of it. Could one blame her? First time being able to...be herself really, and she was already, like the kid at heart, trying to come up with things to do. Perhaps...no, the odds any of the mages that taught would teach her weren't exactly good presently. Came with the whole Drakos family thing. Or perhaps she'd be lucky? One never knows. So much to do, so much to see, so much to say...

[i]//Well that got a bit more filler than intended. Whoops.[/i]
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