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Truth be told, Laurent had ended up sleeping in most of today after the utterly exasperating and bewildering event that had taken place yesterday: not that anyone could blame him, after having not only to teleport a group of arguing people on such short notice, but also doing possibly the most ridiculous thing ever afterwards. The less said about that, the better, yet there was one thing that continued to bother the  fire mage after the whole thing: he hadn't been able to thank the other person involved in the mess for their help. Truly, neither one of them would have gotten out of it safe if working alone, so thanking the other was terribly important.

However, he didn't know a lot about 'tecknoilogy' still (hence why he did not use the 'Monomessanging systeem' much, if at all) - and he'd never learnt the other's name: so the question was, how in Naga's name was he to say thank you? Well, the only thing he could do was just walk around the cabins and try to find the one the other was in: he couldn't very well call him on monomessangher, could he? "Metal sir? Are you there? I should like to have a talk that we were not able to have before regarding the avalanche and what transpired during it..."

It was better than monomesshanging EVERYONE, after all.

There are many worlds, and they share the same sky - one sky, one destiny.

Alright, Clay knew that out of all of the ideas that were risky and Apollo yelled at him about (if someone of his other friends did not beat him to it) - this one probably took the cake. Willingly going out of his 'cabin' late at night, when vicious animals like wolves, or worse, bears, may be about? Yeah, it was totally dangerous, but he'd always been a risk-taker when it came to things he really wanted to do: and this was a big one.

To see the stars, the moon again after being locked inside...of course, a SHSL Space Enthusiast like himself could hardly be blamed for being willing to take those risks in order just to see the stars again. The expanses of open sky and the possibility that the cold would only make the stars seem all the brighter: he didn't care if he was exhaling little bits of 'mist' now and again, it would be worth it if he just saw such a brilliant sight again!

The snapping of twigs nearby alerted Clay from his day-dreaming like smile and his staring at the clouds as it seemed to grow later, the male tensing and raising his arms if he had to throw a few punches to get away...but no, it wasn't a wild animal close by at all, but another student. Lowering his arms in a relieved manner, the black-haired male adjusted his space cap as he spoke, there.

"Gosh, you surprised me...didn't expect to see someone else trying to see if it was possible to stay up late! Did you come to star-gaze as well, huh?"

Despite the bitter cold in his cabin (hey, how was he supposed to know certain students didn't get proper heating?) Clay Terran's space outfit was proving a most valuable ally in this case: he honestly still didn't feel cold at all, but he probably wouldn't be able to invite pals over for a possible space sleepover thanks to that lack of heating, which stunk. Oh well! Maybe he could find twigs to start a home-made fire in there later, but there was something more important - something he'd wanted to do in the snow but never had time to.

As such, the space enthusiast pushed little snowballs around - small at first, but gradually getting bigger - until they resembled, size-wise, the bottom halves of snow men. Yet, he didn't bother putting any snowballs on top of them, instead using his gloved hands to draw craters: he was going to make a snow Solar System! Snowmen were so common, he thought it'd be cool to do something different, yet poking one of the large balls of snow was not exactly a good idea, and it very nearly veered into someone passing by.

Alarmed and not wanting the snow to hit a stranger, Clay tried to grab it - this was an even worse idea, as the snow rolled on anyway, leaving Clay dazed and very bewildered on the ground - and white flecks all over his outfit.

"Owww. Who knew snow astronomy sculpting was so dangerous? ...Sorry about the snowball almost knocking you over, though! Maybe I should make snow comets instead, huh? You're not hurt or anything, right?"

The fire mage couldn't help but let out a small sigh at seeing a bit of the stuff written on his 'Monhomessenger' or whatever that fancy piece of 'tecknoilogy' was: to be honest, he still couldn't say that right, nor did he especially want to, given the few things he had managed to see before logging off. It was becoming quite apparent that though he might want to spend more time theorizing his plan with Yarne, time was not on their side here.

Of course it was not, for he of all people knew that time was a cruel mistress...being that he'd been seperated from Yarne and the others for five years due to the time-travelling going wrong with him. The problem here was, he couldn't afford to rush it and have everything go wrong for everyone else here. Ugh. What he really would like - needed - was another opinion on the matter, but he could hardly bother Yarne about problems all the time.

Sir Gareki and Squall were the same - he'd rather not inconvenience them, Squall especially given the lion-hearted man wasn't too cooperative towards him for good reason. What to do...? Perhaps taking a walk through the hallways would settle his nerves at having to be the one to make such a big decision, given Lucina was nowhere around to be the 'leader'. He was but a common man...no 'leader' by any means. 

He'd said that to Lucina herself many times, sigh. 

Then, almost walking right into someone interrupted his train of thought, and the mage blinked, eyes widening behind spectacles at recognition - it serving as a very good distraction from the choice he had to make, indeed.

"Inigo...is that truly you?" Squinting a moment to confirm it was the dancer, the mage gave the faintest of smiles.

"It....has been a long time, friend."

After that talk with the blue-suited defence attorney - Clay could safely see he really couldn't have predicted any of where THAT conversation had ended up going - the space enthusiast felt like he understood a few things. Not much, but it really had honestly helped with the situation he was in. (He still felt so horrid for having to tell the other guy in blue the bad news, though...he couldn't have hid the truth, though! That would be even worse and besides - Apollo's boss deserved to hear...the truth that had happened here, anyway.) Feeling as if his determination had only doubled from it all, a thought occurred to the space enthusiast.

Though things had happened, it was safe to say that everyone...still shared the same sky, and thus would wish upon the same stars? Maybe if he drew the stars on a piece of really big paper, everyone could feel inspired by the stars like that too? It would be so great! As such, now Clay had a gigantic roll of white paper, and seemed to be entangled in it as he scribbled on it enthusiastically with black - if you had to draw the night sky it was important to cover it with black first and THEN draw all the stars, yes.

However, the roll of paper did not wish to cooperate, and flipped over Clay's head while he was drawing on the other side. "Ack! Maday, maday! We have a visual error on the starboard side! Call reinforcements!"

...Wait, he'd just gone into space-talk for no reason. And though he'd gone to the gym in hopes nobody else would spot his drawings (he wanted it to be a surprise) he knew he'd just heard footsteps.

...Well, this was probably right up in the galaxy with 'embarrassing things that happened', wow. Pulling the paper off his head, he looked at the other.

Flicking the badge he'd managed to scrape up in the storage room now pinned proudly to his space jacket, Clay had to admit it...definitely wasn't as much like an attorney's badge as he might have liked it to be. Rather, it was a star-shaped badge like the kinds that sherrifs used to wear, but hey space-related things were really cool so he certainly wasn't complaining! Now that he had this badge on, he felt like he could actually keep the promise of observing 'evidence' in trials and using them to help people reach the truth instead of them just pointing fingers and blaming folk with no grounds!

Yes; that badge made all the difference, and for once since the horrible trial he felt like he could smile just as cheerfully as he was used to doing. "I...I'm gonna do it, Apollo! Just you watch and see from the stars! I'll make so many truths clear that even you up in the stars will see them! We'll be FINE!" He still felt...a little lonely, yes, he wasn't going to lie about that, or missing Apollo a lot.

However, knowing he'd taken a big step to keeping his promise was enough to encourage his strength, his positivity back into something of it's old energy where he'd just been 'trying his best' to smile before. Sniffling and fighting the urge to start crying about it, the blue-clad space enthusiast darted out of his room on putting the badge on his jacket like a space comet - only to almost barge into someone else in the hallway.

"...Oh noo! I didn't mean to almost bowl ya over like that, sorry!" Rubbing the back of his head sheepishly, he blinked a moment at actually taking a close inspection of the other. He looked really familiar somehow...

"Your jacket's really cool! Blue's my favourite colour, too!"

Though he would have much rathered to be left to go along with his ideas and determination at his own pace, of course the bear and the school wouldn't want to make this easy at all. Of course not, because the bear had already taken so many innocent people and his best friend away forever without a care in the world, all because the trial had only been half correct. He couldn't even imagine how awful those who got out of it okay might feel, too...added to his determination to keep the promise to Apollo after his death, and things had been hectic, hectic, hectic.

However! He certainly was not about to let that stop him, even though he felt exhausted and all he'd done so far was get a badge for 'space lawyer' stuff - probably because it was so hard to do stuff in this school without running into people, he guessed. Yeah, totally. He should probably go and check if there was any energy drinks in the kitchen, even though that guy he helped a while back had warned about a 'gas leak' a while back...the gas should be all gone by now, right?

As such, he began to rummage through the kitchen, completely unaware that someone else had walked in in his search at the time.

"Energy drinks...energy drinks...do they even HAVE them here? Or are they in a different place of the school? ...I wish I had've asked when I had the chance, but I'm sure I'll find them!"

Thinking further over the matter of best keeping his promise to Apollo as he had after the curious...events which had taken place in the hallway before, Clay had almost forgotten one very important thing, which had come to mind just now - and that was that in the commotion of all that had happened so far and the stuff he wanted to do, he had yet to really check out the room he stayed in and meet his roomies properly. Considering he was going to be sleeping in the same room as them for most of his time here, it was probably a really good idea to meet them now, if possible, and talk a bit?

He'd spoken very briefly to one of his roomies on Sunday, but not enough to really get a good proper opinion on the guy, and he still didn't know who his other room-mate was, either. 

The most likely place they'd be...well, checking the room itself seemed as good a place to start as any, because he really honestly didn't know enough about the set-up of this place to guess which were the most 'popular' spots yet!  Surely luck'd be on his side with this if he just had confidence, heh!

Feeling confident that he'd be lucky enough to at least talk to one of his roomies today, he knocked firmly on the door. "Hey, roomies! Any of ya there? I wanted to have a chat with ya. I brought some rock candy with me from the storage room, too!"

Rock candy was really tasty and Clay reckoned a great way to chat with roomies was to share stuff you liked with them!