On the platform: New characters and old ones that want to come and meet them!

[utopiamods]

As you all crowd onto the platform with your new and still bizarre mix of faces, expressions, clothing and wild theories, you are met by two girls. Both are in uniforms that would match if not for the colour differences - skirts, waistcoats, and light summer shirts that seem totally inappropriate for the thin layer of snow and ice coating the station platform. Both have a beret with a crest - one shows a sword, the other a shield.

At the first lull in the chatter, the shorter girl speaks up, her soft voice somehow cutting over you.

"Excuse me,"

She explains, in precise, quiet sentences, that they're prefects, representing the two schools in Rakuen. Nanami of Fortitude, she says, placing a hand on her own collarbone, and Santana of Conquest, here pointing to the taller girl she's leaning against. The girl nods, looking fairly bored.

"We will be sorting you now. When we say your name, please move quickly and quietly to whoever called you."

"Yeah," Santana interrupts, "Then we can go back to the dorms. It's not getting any warmer however many times they make us do this."

They separate, moving to stand several metres apart, and both pull a list from their waistcoat pocket. Alternating, they start to read out your names.

Comments

[babysage]

Erm... [He didn't know why he couldn't remember it...] I don't know... but his family name is Mochizuki same as mine... and some people call him the Silver Blade, or Kin Killer.

[straightupzorra]

Nope, not here. He's probably back wherever you're from.

[babysage]

[Kotaro blinked at her, eyes quickly filling with tears] W...what do you mean? He has to be here, he wouldn't leave me!

[straightupzorra]

Sorry kid, he's not here. If it makes you feel any better he probably didn't leave you, it's more like you were kidnapped. You get used to it.

[babysage]

Kidnapped? [His eyes widen for a moment but then he calms down] That's okay then, my brother will find me soon and beat the people who kidnapped me into a pulp!

[straightupzorra]

You can't really just find this place. The only way to get here to to be kidnapped yourself, and you can't really make yourself get kidnapped, it just happens.

[babysage]

You're wrong! [He shakes his head] My brother will find me, my brother always finds me! And he always beats the people that kidnap me! He'll come just you wait and see!

[straightupzorra]

Yeah, whatever kid, just wait for your brother here and see how long you're here without him.

[babysage]

He will come you will see! [He smiles at her, because obviously she just has never heard of her brother.

That solved he asked the question he had been wondering about] What's a school?