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Vincent laid there in his bed, just sitting there.

A new dorm room, compliments of somesuch TEP nation.

He knew that some TEP nation was paying for all of this; it wasn’t the TEP nation he first entered, Nameless ness. They pointed him here because they had no money for a military and no idea of where to put him. But then, after his entrance exams, a recruiter from FPS had approached him and offered him a full ride (education, room, and board), plus the guaruntee of a secure job after he leaves.

I just hope they are ready to foot a massive bill… I have no idea of what to do now.

Vincent had spent the past five years in poverty, travelling to TEP through the trade routes, hitching rides with the nomad traders. They were an unreliable people, they had broken the trust that he had confided in them…

But they got him here. Now some government was willing to pay for his education and pretty much everything. He really didn’t care much; he just wanted to get food and shelter… the clothes thing wasn’t working out as well as he had no sense of what clothes to get…

He was abruptly brought back to this dorm now, wondering what to do now that the suffering had ended… for now. But he saw no point in picking a career now; after all, the support could be cut at any time.
He got bored and decided to go do something. He got up and left his room, his cloak dragging behind.

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OOC: Well, you can count on the FPS Government to keep up to one promise: the one he made in return for that free ride. :stuck_out_tongue:
IC:
“Well, actually, its not just that my dad wants me back.” Matt stated, blushing a little, “though that is part of it. There’s actually a slight…um…political event my dad and I normally attend, and, he said that I could bring friends, so…I thought I’d ask you all to come along.” He looked around. “And we can tour around Liberty, too, if any of you are interested.”

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Vicent walked by the room as a kid was mentioning going to Liberty City.

Liberty City? Isn’t that in FPS? The recruiter… he’s from there.

Interesting…

Vincent started to continue walking by, his cloak dragging behind.

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“I’m sure he d-” Anna silenced her usual objection. I’m sure he does. Now was not the time to renew that particular argument. And how will you tour around the city without- She decided they would talk later.

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Smiling, Karen looked at Anna, and then at Matt. “If you’re serious, I’d love to come. I was debating about hanging around here, but that’s suddenly lost a whole lot of appeal given the alternative. When do we leave? And if it’s a social function, what do we need to bring?”

46

Katara woke up, looked at the clock and panicked; she slept in and worst of all, she missed breakfast. Katara went to her closet, throwing clothes on her bed in a frenzy. Lyndale would not be very happy, especially sleeping in after he gave Katara the day off.

Katara finished getting dressed and decided that she needed some kind of food in her stomach so bypassed flying out of the window and ran down the stairs towards the kitchenette.

As she was hurrying through the hall, she bumped into Vincent. Partly startled herself she apologized, “I am so sorry, I should have been watching where I was going. My name is Katara. I haven’t seen you around here before, are you new?”

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Vincent looked at the person he had just bumped into. He was not very much in the mood for intros, but he figured that getting them out of the way now would help him with later.

He spoke in that very cold voice he had. “I am Vincent. I just came to this dorm. My room is over there.” He pointed down to his dorm room.

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Katara smiled, “Where are you from? I’m going back to my home land soon.”

Arian, I’m with a student I don’t really know right now. It’s kind of weird, I’m picking up some really negative stuff off of him, I’m not trying to. Anyway, I’m going to see if he’ll talk to me. He reminds me of someone but I can’t place my finger on who.

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The thought of his homeland brought with it a lot of painful memories. He could still see the army advancing on his hometown… the fires… the man with the gun… the phrase “The Cause”, whatever that meant…

All the memories which he had tried to ignore for 5 years were too much for him.
He spoke one word, trying to not break up but significantly failing.
“N-N-Nowhere…”

That was all he could say. Not only did he not trust this girl, but she had brought too much stress upon him to say anything else. He knew he had lied and he knew he should be proud of where he comes, but he couldn’t bring himself to say the name of his homeland without breaking up.

He just sort of walked in the direction of the kitchenette, not knowing what to do. He tried to regain his composure but couldn’t.

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«Good morning, my little winged beauty… nice to see you’re finally awake, sleepy-head! Listen… we’re inside my room. Young Matt is organizing a trip to Liberty City… BEFORE the ship will arrive from EMC and… uh… listen: it will be far easier if you’ll come in. And do not worry, bring this weird student with you. Right now, the room is SO overcrowded that a couple of people more won’t make any difference!»

Hearing Karen’s comment, Arian chuckled, glancing towards Matt.

«A social function? Whoa, Matt, I’m sure both Kah’lad and me will be able to cope wearing our high uniforms… but does it mean we’ll finally have the chance to see you wearing a smoking jacket or something like that?»

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Katara giggled to herself, watching as Vincent kept walking, choosing not to follow but went inside the kitchenette. That sounds like fun Arian, you can count me in. Might as well get used to the idea of being on a ship. That new kid won’t be joining me, I’m just grabbing an orange right now. Katara grabbed an orange and was heading back to the hall when she collided into Lyndale. “Lyndale, I’m sorry I didn’t see you.”

Lyndale looked at the orange and then at Katara, “Why do I have the impression that some one slept in this morning?”

Katara swallowed hard, “I did wake up a little late but I was trying to help some one, do my homework and I missed breakfast, so I came down to grab an orange. Lyndale don’t look at me like that I was tired. Believe it or not but I was up late last night studying.”

“I thought you demanded that I give you the day off and you studied late?” Lyndale was about to continue talking but a message came in from the main office. Lyndale scanned it quickly and then read it over again. “Well, that is not the kind of news I had anticipated.”

Katara’s face looked concerned, “What is it? What’s wrong?”

“Nothing all too serious, it just seems that our transport home is canceled for now. The EMC Stellar nearly went under because of a failure of through-hull fittings below the waterline. The ship was dry docked but your mother is happy to report that we will be getting escorted by plane instead.”

“Lyndale, do you think that we could get escorted from Liberty City? A bunch of the students are going there and it may be easier to get…”

“Remember the last class voyage you went on, that trip traumatized you, maybe even for life, Miss Katara. I am sure…”

“Lyndale! After that incident, you have been here to make sure nothing happens to me. You’re coming along and Arian will be there to help protect me. Come on Lyndale, you have to let me go. I’m sure nothing will happen. It’s only for a couple of days.” Katara gave Lyndale her most pathetic eyes and pleading face as she possibly could.

“We can go, I’ll make the arrangements but if anything happens at all, Miss Katara…”

“I know I know, shame on me right?” Katara winked at Lyndale and went running back toward the stairs. Arian, I just got some great news but not so great news. This ship that was coming for us had to go back. Something about a failed through hull fitting something like that, so we are going to get picked up by plane in Liberty City. I hope you don’t mind Lyndale snuffling along. He’s concerned something might happen to me.

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Matt laughed. “Somehow, I don’t think my father would approve of my smoking,” the child shook his head, “or my wearing a smoking jaket, really. Not his style. But, um…yea, you will need dress clothes for the event itself.” Terrus took a breath. “As for the rest of the trip…I dunno. I guess just regular clothes would work.”

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For a brief moment, Arian frowned. It was clear Matt wanted them to go with him, but at the same time something about the trip itself was troubling him. Hearing Katara’s voice once again, he shook his head: probably the young guy was nothing but still upset because of his father’s phone call.

«That’s wonderful, Kat. With a plane, we’ll surely reach EMC far sooner… and do not worry about Lyndale: after all these weeks, I’m pretty used to have him buzzing around. I could even feel a bit lost, shouldn’t he come with the two of us! However… are you coming here, my dear?»

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I am almost at Matt’s room right now. Katara giggled as she knocked and entered, and went over to Arian, “I’m afraid I can’t stay too long, Lyndale has a few things scheduled for me to do today. At least I don’t have any classes. How are all of you doing? I heard we are planning a trip. I can’t wait. Hey, I just ran into someone downstairs, literally, his name is Vincent have any of you met him yet?”

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“I think there was a Vincent in one of my classes. I never talked to him, though. He didn’t say much.” Apparently quite distracted, Anna looked in a mirror on the back of the door. She pondered briefly the reasons why a room populated entirely by boys would have such a mirror. In all likelihood it was simple standardization. “Hmm. Formal. Well, this won’t do, I can’t exactly show up dressed as a military-industrial ghoul. I suppose I’ll come up with something.”

She stopped talking for a moment, and turned to Katara. “Katara, do you have anything to do tomorrow? How soon can we leave?”

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Katara looked away from Arian to speak to Anna, “I guess I can ask Lyndale, I don’t have any more classes until I get back. I don’t see why we wouldn’t be able to leave tomorrow though.”

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Matt took a breath, but then seemed to stop himself before he could make a complaint. “Tommorow is a little soon, but, I think I can make it happen.” He winked towards Anna. “After all, I do have some contacts in the transportation industry.”

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“Sounds good to me, provided I can find something decent in my closet. Everyday stuff isn’t a problem, but unless I remembered to bring something back from Kandarin with me …”, Karen’s voice trailed off, even as she smiled. She knew mom had bought her one formal dress. She just couldn’t remember whether or not she’d brought it with her. Time enough to shop in a bit if she hadn’t.

Looking over at Anna, the smile grew to a grin. "I don’t know, Anna. “Military-industrial ghoul kind of suits you.”

Glancing over at Kat, she asked, “What did you say this new student’s name was?”

Karen knew she was skipping from topic to topic, but seeing Cyril, and then confronting him, had thrown her off a little, particularly when she’d embarrassed both of them by doing the confronting in front of someone else.

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Katara smiled at Karen, “His name is Vincent, he looked sort of creepy to me and I picked up on a lot of unusual senses from him. I was just curious because I have yet to see him around here.” Katara then realized that people were talking about formal wear, “Is there a formal function that I don’t know about and would need a formal gown or something?” Katara then also realized that when she went back to her home land, she would probably would need to wear really nice gowns. Arian, I have a problem, if we leave tomorrow, I won’t have any formal gowns to wear. I have never worn a gown before. I don’t even know where to even go to buy them.

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Cyril stood by listening to the exchange. He looked at Karen for a brief second, then turned back to his account book that he was descreetly balancing. Even taking into account the favourable status of the Lîröt, the currency in which his scholor’s stipend was given, he’d have to run a tight budget to make this voyage. It might be a good idea to get a job…

Meanwhile, Nöêl exited the washroom after a taking time to tease her hair into a curly natural do, which was all the rage in Âzûr. She put on a new pair of jeans and a loose white tank top. She exited to join the others. Trying to catch up of their conversation, Nöêl noticed a new guy. She approched him:

«Hey, I’m Nöêl-F’ana from Dova …uh… Tokana» she said, almost forgetting that it wasn’t Dovakhanese Marian Sea anymore.