#hilda01

Rest had been needed after him and hilda had drove away ???? bird. Plus he wanted to go and let hilda’s injury rest overnight to not cause her much pain to walk on. Even with not that much sleep, he was up before the sun to refill water bottles and prepare something to eat for breakfast. He was letting the foot cook on the pan over the fire, letting his travel partner sleep more to let her injured leg rest

Poison was, perhaps, a strange choice of class for Colin; when his previous classmates had heard he was changing his major and minors, poison was the one that brought them to a pause. His second choice, Love, was received with much more nods of agreement. 

Colin was, at the core, a person who helped others — no matter whom if they were strangers or enemies or similar — so the idea of the warm hearted boy studying the magic that is primarily used to harm was quite a clash of dissonance. 

( His siblings, of course, met the idea with understanding. Perhaps it makes more sense to they who had known him longer? )

Nevertheless, Colin had picked up the subject and with his knowledge from his previous major in Life providing him with a more solid understanding of what poison magic was borne from, he was one of the better scoring students in his grade level for it, alongside his classmate, Hilda.

Who, coincidentally, he had been paired with for today’s ‘test’! As much of the situation fits the word, with their teacher Raven’s idea of a ‘test’ being much closer to ‘throwing students into deadly situations and see who survives longest without needing rescuing’, of course. 

“Hilda, right? We haven’t worked together before, I don’t think...”

Despite the circumstances, Colin seems rather relaxed, greeting his partner with a smile and soft introductions. He’s leaning against the wall of the test area they’d been placed in, seperate from the other students who’d been placed in their own areas with their own partners.

“I’m Colin,” Jovial introduction, and the boy turns his head slightly, to look at his dragon, a blooming life dragon with soft  fluffy grasses growing on their back. “...And that’s Misca, though, they’re likely to nap through this whole event.”

“It’s nice to officially meet you.”

Not being able to contact anyone is a little bit scary, Jade has to admit. How long has it been since she’s been alone? Has she really gotten so unused to it again? She grew up all alone except for Bec, she was alone on the ship... Though even then, she’d had her friends and she’d had planets worth of company on the ship, even if it wasn’t really helpful company.

She’s holding on to the hope that at least some of her friends are somewhere around here. She’s been pondering how to go about trying to find them, and she thinks she’s come up with the solution. A short term one, at least. One that will make her feel like she’s doing something!

Walking around the transport hub of the place they call THE SEA OF TRANQUILITY, she holds the notepad in her hand and looks around. She spots a woman standing some feet away from her, someone who it doesn’t look like she’ll be interrupting. Great!

“Hi! Excuse me!” She says jogging over. “Hi!! I’m really sorry to bother you, but can I ask you a question?” She holds the notepad out to the woman, so she can show her the DRAWING scribbled out on the piece of paper.