On the platform: Meet the new characters

[utopiamods]

As you all crowd onto the platform, which is drenched with sunlight though the air is cool you are met by five girls and eight boys. One of the girls is a somewhat humanoid grey-skinned, finned alien and one of the boys seems to be a blue Hedgehog; but the rest all seem human. All twelve are in uniforms that would match if not for the colour differences - skirts and trousers, waistcoats, and light summer shirts that seem totally inappropriate for the chill. Some seem irritable while others look excited. Each has a beret with a crest pinned to the front - six depicting a shield on green, the other seven a sword on red.

At the first lull in the chatter, a frail looking girl with a shield on her cap steps forward.

"Excuse me, may I have your attention please!"

She explains that the eleven of them are the current prefects of Rakuen, representing the two schools on the island. Nanami (she gestures to herself), Lelouch, Yuri, Sonic, Jade and Sora of Fortitude; and Santana, Flynn, Feferi, Kevin, Gino, Suzaku and Golbez of Conquest.

The introductions are over fast and the girl named Santana seems impatient, "So come over when your name is called so we can all get inside." They all move to stand in two groups some distance away from each other; two boys step forward and begin to read names from a clipboard.

Suzaku, the Conquest Prefect reads in a short clipped manner, his posture stiff. But his tone is kind. "For Conquest, Arthur Pendragon, Stellaluna, Nepeta Vantas and Jadesprite."

The Fortitude prefect, Lelouch, on the other hand looks bored. "Jane Crocker and Merlin are for Fortitude."

Comments

CONQUEST

[swordofzero]

[Suzaku nods at the students as they come over to him, prepared for the onslaught of inevitable questions.]

FORTITUDE

[veepofchess]

[Lelouch, on the other hand looks bored as hell. New students will come to know the as Lelouch Standard Mode. He knew Suzaku had seemed off lately but he hadn't much opportunity to sort out what it was. Besides, he had other things to address.]

[babysage]

[As every week Kotaro is there, huddled under his parasol to hide from the sun. He watches the people get off the train, but none of them are his brother.

He is so late!]

[scavenges]

Nepeta is one of the last to unboard from the train.




And the moment she doesn't she lets out what sounds like a mix between a strangled cry and hiss and quickly darts back in. God damn, that really was the sun and not some strange artificial light. She rubs at her eyes a bit and just. Sort of stares from the threshold, letting the few others behind her pass on by. What the hell was she suppose to make of this? This had to be some sort of bizarre dream--that was the only explanation considering she had no idea how she had come to be on this train. The sensation of falling, the recollection of an old fairy tale told years past...

Dream. Definitely a dream and the more she tried to make sense of it and what she had been doing before arriving here the foggier her mind seemed to get. She remained where she was, eying the platform with uncertainty and curiosity.