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Kasuke Mina
Kasuke didn't answer Dulga right away, in fact it was only when Adriane got off them and helped the both up that Mina even looked a Dulga. She bowed respectfully, and replied in kind. "You definitely struck a nerve, but I'm sorry I took the fight too far in response. I should have been better."
Mina's response was hollow and forced-sounding until the last sentence, whereupon her brow furrowed, her eyes looked down at her own feet, her lip snarled, and her voice was laced with self-loathing. She didn't add anything to Dulga's defense, and didn't say anything to the adults, even when Adriane glared at her. When Jais called her over to talk separately, she obediently followed. He'd notice that by the time she got to where they were to talk, her hands were clenched into fists, her knuckles white, and her eyes were fixed on the floor and tearing up. Even so, she still looked angry. Mina, it seemed, wasn't so similar after all to her easy-going, kind, friendly mother at her age.
@Norschtalen@Aerandir
(Surface, Orphanage)
Rags nervously allowed Aya to check her hair for ears and skin for fur. Nope. No ears in sight, and her skin was smooth. When Aya went behind her, Rags was about to ask her what she was doing when she felt her pants being pulled back. She yipped, stood up rigid straight and her face was now a crimson mask of mortification and embarrassment.
"Rags not dog!" She exclaimed, eyes tearing up adorably, though she was in no danger of crying. She calmed herself down by the time Aya answered her questions about the adults, and returned to sitting on her haunches, listening attentively. Despite Aya's misgivings about talking simpler, Rags understood what she was saying. You didn't have to be fully learned in grammar and language rules to get the gist of things.
That said, the explanation didn't quite make sense to her. Anyone can gain experience and knowledge. Anybody can be given good tools. Why was it determined that only at a certain age are you allowed these things? Who determined that? Maybe that's why everybody was so surprised when they heard about a child living alone in the wild. It wasn't that rags was alone. It was that she was a child. That's not how things work here. Children don't go out into danger alone here. A clearer picture was forming itself to Rags. And she didn't think it was fair. With knowledge and experience and tools, Rags could do what the adults could do.
Maybe that's what the apprenticeships and first level delving as supposed to be, but it wasn't testing. You don't learn to hunt in a forest by being allowed to explore a very small section of it and then being given food anyway. You learn faster by chasing and tracking for hours, across miles and miles of land. And you learn to delve by delving. By using the best tools, by going down deeper, with no safety nets. That's how Rags learned to live until now.
Rags was asked another question along with a nose bop by Aya, about the best thing she'd ever found by smell. She was about to answer, when an older child, not from the orphanage, approached the two, and asked about the missing kids. Rags responded by nodding, then looking to Aya, she could explain better than Rags.
@liferusher@FlitterFaux
Sora awoke, actually feeling refreshed, but not quite remembering where she was. She looked around, trying to figure it out, before realising that she was on top of Kiyoshi. She blushed and sat bolt upright as she frantically tried to recall what had happened. What had she done?! What had HE done?!
She remembered the heroes vs villains exercise. She remembered that she was going to charge him, but instead of blocking, he'd tried to grab her. He must have used his sleep touch on her whilst she was running toward him horn-first, and the bruise on his forehead confirmed that. That was a silly thing to do, putting to sleep a horned girl running straight toward you. Now she can't stop herself, and if you have made no move to stop her yourself...
Kasuke Mina
If Dulga thought she had gotten to Mina before, mentioning her mother AND Jett like that really did the trick. The once focused martial artist was now a pitiful, screaming ball of rage, punches and kicks, only few of which even reached the target. It was fortunate that adults then arrived to break them up and save Mina from further embarrassment. She was sprawled over Dulga, with Jett's mother sitting on top of her. As her adrenaline and anger wore away, the regret and shame started seeping in, as well as the physical pain. Jais was right when he spoke next. She still hadn't recovered enough to fight like this. Her neck hurt. Her back hurt. Her face hurt. And she knew that without the adults breaking the fight up, she was about to lose, because she lost her head. She was better than this! Could she really be that mentally fragile? That easy to play?
She'd stopped trying to fight, and relaxed in resignation and surrender. Looks like she was in trouble.
@Norschtalen@Aerandir
Maeda Hitomi
Hitomi smiled waved that the Support students she thought she was still on terms with, and was slightly taken aback at their reactions. Surprise, unease, and then faked happiness, in that order. It upset Hitomi more than she'd care to admit. The assembled group all sat down over at a table, and proceed to introduce themselves. After that, business commenced. Asahi passed papers around to everyone, and Hitomi started to read her copy as she listened to the 1B student. She had to admit. It was a great idea! Even so, a few of her support student former classmates objected to the idea, and she could see their point.
"I think it's a great idea, personally. It's like a mini-agency. Honestly, some of the Hero Students have yet to learn the things the rest of us actually got taught; that a Pro-Hero is not a single person but a brand, and one that is a joint effort between multiple people. Plus, if we do something like this, the hero agencies will take notice. It'll look great when we're looking for jobs, that we've already had experience with a kind of mini-agency at school!" Hitomi was mainly talking to the support student as she talked, and she was talking as if she was still one of them, with her use of 'we'.
When the business student spoke up, Hitomi smiled brightly and nodded. "Exactly! Everybody benefits from this. Everybody learns valuable skills that will be used in the real world, and helps each other at their particular field!"
@liferusher@Lucius Cypher
Kasuke Mina
That taunt, unlike the other one, obviously struck a nerve, as the next thing Dulga would see was Mina raising her hand, and then a very bright light, that persisted for several seconds, during which time, Mina felt down Dulga's arm to her shoulders, then up to her face, and then proceeded to deliver a series or very stiff and ugly punches to her combatant's face, each one was punctuated by her screeching a single word. The third or fourth one would split Dulga's bottom lip.
"Don't! You! Ever! Compare! Me! To! That! Bitch!"
@Norschtalen
Added a Mako bit. I had to cut my post short earlier because I'm at college.
Duncan didn't answer Kromric back, but neither did he look particularly sorry. If he had come to check with them first, there definitely wouldn't have been enough time. Plus, how was he to know that Lotte had packed things? Even if he had an inkling that she was going to do that, even if he was fairly sure, he still wouldn't have taken the slim chance of going in unarmed. Add to that the fact that Tholl, the one who'd called the deadline, hadn't expected them to all actually meet it, and Duncan gave the other teacher as smug a grin as he thought he could get away with.
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Duncan stood at the lip of the manhole, affronted that Tholl had just insinuated his hesitation was because he was grossed out. "Oh, that's how you want to play it, huh?" he answered from above. "Clear the landing area!" with that brief warning, and as soon as he could see it was clear, he fell into the hole, landing on his side against the slime covered concrete. He got back to his hooves, face contorted in pain. "Nailed it..."
Looking back, it was quite short-sighted to expect a Centaur to descend a ladder.
Despite being half-horse, Duncan's eyes and nose were human. Thus, he only had human senses in that regard. The smell was disgusting but nothing to lose his lunch over, the benefits of a horse's digestive system. He couldn't see crap, though, until Sonia spoke up and assigned roles to them all, putting Duncan beside her due to his long range capabilities. Maybe he could see in the dark after all. Yes, he was sure he was starting to see the way ahead! Don't let me down now, eyes!
"Alright, Team Leader. Just call me Hawke-"
He stopped there, because Sonia had pulled a spellbook out, and was touching his hooves. Duncan looked away and tried to pull his cap over his face, though he only succeeded in covering his eyes, not his blush. When she was finished, he coughed awkwardly.
"Uh...thanks! Good thinking."
@Awesomoman64@Lonewolf685@Ryonara
Mako smiled at Lumen, but shook her head.
"Yare yare! Surely you can't need our guidance already. You only just arrived! We're here to make sure you stay safe. We're not supposed to think for you, or make the plans or give orders for you. You do want to be fully independent Dawnslayers one day, right? If, and only if, you get truly stuck, or truly need our help, will I intervene.
Believe it or not, you won't always have maps or layouts readily available when you grow up. You could make acquiring them a priority, or use magic or some other means to get a read on the building, or just explore the old fashioned way and keep your eyes and ears open. Which path you take, however, is up to you."
@Conscripts@Awesomoman64@Cerces22@Sync@Strange Rodent
(Surface, Orphanage)
Rags was not surprised by a fellow apprentice climbing besides her, as the feral girl could smell her, and hear the sounds of her climbing, though supposed it was a little unusual that one of the other kids was coming to see her. Rags' guard was up. Hopefully they weren't there to bully her. When Rags turned, she suddenly found half a loaf of bread stuffed into her mouth, which, in her confusion, she let sticking out for a while as she stared down at it in surprise. This certainly wasn't a natural or expected turn of events. But this was bread. And bread was food, and she should be thankful for food and accept gifts. Rags started to chew on the bread, and her mood improved. When Aya started talking, Rags listened, and continued to chew.
"Brain says they not down. Smell says they down," Rags replied, showing that while she didn't have a full grasp of English and didn't understand every word that was said to her, she understood enough to get the gist of what Aya was asking her, and replying in kind. "But if down not safe, why adults down?"
The most unusual thing about Rags, once you got to know her, was her intelligence. She might actually be among the smartest and most inquisitive girls her age at the orphanage. She had a keen mind for reasoning and philosophy, as well as a large base of useful knowledge and wisdom that she had picked up from living in the wild, that came in handy during practice delves.
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