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[everdistant_utopia]

[When she made her contract with the world to offer her service as a Servant in exchange for a chance to grant her wish, Saber had been prepared to be summoned across time for the purpose of fighting in a war. But his 'summoning' wasn't even a summoning at all, but some terrible accident. Moreover, she was no longer a warrior, but a student? She had stared hard at the letter as she walked through her new surroundings, her expressionless face giving away nothing of her complete confusion. It all made sense... yet it didn't make any sense at all.

Dismissing her battle-armour and Excalibur, she remained in her blue dress, not willing to chance finding out whether or not her more modern attire had somehow come with her. She might have stood out, but at the very least she had no special need to hide that her presence was unnatural.

She paused occasionally to scrutinise her new surroundings through an experienced knight's eyes. It seemed peaceful enough... at least, on the surface. But for all she knew of this alien place, that could change.]

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[sublimelymagnificentblitz]

[He sighs briefly, but hey, no help for it. Cadets are the size they are, even if they'd snap like a twig with one good tackle.]

Well, welcome to Garden. I'm guessing by the look you're givin' the place that you're new.

[everdistant_utopia]

Ah. Yes, I have only just arrived.

[She's still not certain what the Gardens could be called. It was a place of learning, to be sure, but none had ever been even a fraction of this size. So she fell back on what she knew.]

This is a... rather large castle.

[sublimelymagnificentblitz]

It's not a castle, but I guess that's pretty close. It's a Garden. There's three of 'em, they're buildings that can fly around if someone turns 'em on.

[He shrugs. It's weird, but everyone things suspending a giant pool of water in midair and playing ball in it is weird too, so who's he to judge?]

[everdistant_utopia]

[A look of mild surprise makes its way past her impassive mask. Such miracles were rare even in her own era, much less the latter one she had been summoned to previously.]

It does have the appearance of a castle or fortress, however...

[Glancing at the letter again]

According to the information I received, it is, in fact, a school?

[sublimelymagnificentblitz]

Yep. Teaches you how to be a good SeeD, and since you're gonna ask, a SeeD's a mercenary who knows how to use paramagic. And since you're gonna ask what paramagic is, it's magic you take from other things instead'a having it yourself.

[everdistant_utopia]

[A slight frown]

As a knight, I do not especially approve of becoming a mercenary.

[sublimelymagnificentblitz]

Why's that? I mean, no offense, I don't know much about knights, but they do what their lord tells 'em to, right?

[everdistant_utopia]

The knights in my kingdom serve the people and take orders from the king. The king himself is the head of the knights, yet is a knight himself whose duties are likewise to the people.

Mercenaries are a necessary part of military forces, yet they have no allegiance to the kingdom.

[sublimelymagnificentblitz]

Oh, well... no kingdoms here, so no kings. There's always an army, I guess, but they wouldn't want you, you're not from this world.

[Kinda blunt there, Jecht. Well, whaddya expect when you ask him to explain all the complicated stuff?]