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

[merde]

Tear had been about to answer Santana again when this other girl barrelled up to them. Tear had flown up high out of self-preservation. "Your fellow what? I'm sorry, I don't believe we've met before."

[catpaw]

"Yeah yeah! Mental problems, ok. Be quiet!" Nekoko says it flippantly. Instead of listening to Santana, she focuses on Tear, reaching up with her arms to try and touch her. "Sidhe! Fairy! You know. I'm one too! We can be fairy friends!! I'm Nekoko, what's your name!?"

[straightupzorra]

She just stares at the two of them in disbelief, "You have got to be kidding me." Sometimes she really hates this school.

[merde]

Tear did her best to keep out of reach of this human. It was something she was used to doing, especially since human children and infants tended to be grabby. "You couldn't be a fairy. What human would want to be a fairy?" She had never had to deal with this kind of delusion from a human before.

[catpaw]

"I am a fairy!" She pouts and lowers her arms, crossing them over her chest. "I'm a different type from you though, obviously. I can't fly like that and I'm not small. But I'm most definitely a fairy."

[straightupzorra]

"You're both fucking crazy, I'm leaving," and with that she walks away. Really she's mostly fine with different species but it doesn't mean she enjoys dealing with them.

[merde]

"You're much too big to--" But she stopped when Santana started to walk away. "Wait! Where is Recette's store?"

[straightupzorra]

As she walks away Santana points in a rather vague direction.