Espio o5: Espio is back. Somehow.

[turnip-rage.livejournal.com]

[ooc: kinda backdated to just before Espio gets himself re-enrolled and whatnot.]

[One small pink lizard approaches the Garden entrance, looking just a little bit worse for wear. Once he passes the gate, he immediately locates a low wall and flops onto it. Yes, he's completely worn out.]

Finally!

[Back in the Garden! After a couple of weeks tracking it down, since it's gone and moved - at least it wasn't at sea! Espio's just glad it was less trouble than it could have been - it was sheer fortune that he heard about it being in Dollet, and invisibility was so helpful when stowing away on public (and some not-so-public) transport.

The chameleon stretches, happy to have a chance to sit down. Still, there's a small noise as his stomach rumbles.]

Maybe I should go to the cafeteria first...

[He doesn't move, though.]

Comments

[fierybluebird]

Lightmare? [Amused eyebrow arch.] Well, so long as they didn't bother you much, eh.

So where've you been? Indoors a lot?

[turnip-rage.livejournal.com]

Villain with crazy dream powers, [] and I wish I'd been indoors - actually, no I don't, I hate being stuck inside.

I've been travelling.

[fierybluebird]

Wow. For how long? [Pure deadpan face of course.]

[turnip-rage.livejournal.com]

I'd say at least two weeks.

[fierybluebird]

... Why?

[turnip-rage.livejournal.com]

It was either that or be stuck in the middle of nowhere! Between that and the Garden, I'll take the Garden.

[fierybluebird]

Wait, why weren't just on the Garden to begin with? Did you get sent on a mission?

[turnip-rage.livejournal.com]

You could say I "went home" for a while, I guess. Then got dumped just outside Deling two months later, right when I figured I'd never see the Garden again.

[.]

Of course, it's not been that long on here.

[fierybluebird]

... Ouch. You got sent to where the Garden... used to be? The sorceress running this whole time compression thing must be nasty.

[turnip-rage.livejournal.com]

Apparently.

And it was outside Deling! That's a lot further than Balamb! I was lucky to even find out where they'd gone and moved you lot to, else I could have been moving a whole lot longer!

[fierybluebird]

That sounds... frustrating. No wonder you're tired, eh.

[turnip-rage.livejournal.com]

Tell me about it.

[]

I'm gonna just take five minutes, convince the cafeteria ladies to give me some food, and go see the Head. I think I missed the exams, too - I'd better not have to take the same classes for another quarter!

[fierybluebird]

Especially since there are more classes next semester, eh.

Want me to get you some food?

[turnip-rage.livejournal.com]

[]

Couldn't argue if you did! ...thanks. I'm not fussy, so grab whatever.

What do you mean by more classes, though? I figured that was a given - took eight last quarter, the other eight this one coming.

[fierybluebird]

No, there's... way more now. It takes a year to graduate instead.

[turnip-rage.livejournal.com]

Oh, great. More wasted time.

At least tell me whatever they've got is more advanced than the beginner stuff they gave us in the last quarter. What's new?

[fierybluebird]

Definitely more advanced, eh. Err, here. Take a look for yourself. [Hands over the catalog which is marked down with blue ink for the classes Marco's taking with red hearts doodled in by a different hand for ballroom dancing and World Bestiary.]

Ballroom dancing and defensive driving are mandatory though. [Doesn't look thrilled about this. Likewise doesn't look too upset, but it's Marco, he's deadpan.]

[turnip-rage.livejournal.com]

Oh good.

[]

Ballroom dancing? Why is that mandatory?

[]

[fierybluebird]

Beats me. Some sort of social blending in thing? Maybe they figure it will force us to hate each other less. Certainly enough rumors about the Gardens fighting.

[turnip-rage.livejournal.com]

[]

Maybe... but ballroom dancing? That's a bit... well, it's not what I'd think of when I think "school full of teenagers." Military school or not.

[]

[fierybluebird]

They're not all teenagers, eh.

And I think someone mentioned samba being in there too. Don't ask.

[turnip-rage.livejournal.com]

Most are. I don't even know why they allow up to 25s, when most courses are clearly aimed at the younger cadets.

And I think I'm gonna leave that class 'til the last quarter.

[]

Hey, criminal justice!

They'd better let me take make-up exams. The stuff on this looks way more useful than the last one.

[]

[fierybluebird]

Oi oi, don't say that. You make me feel even older.

You want to take Criminal Justice?

[Tucks his catalog away.]

[turnip-rage.livejournal.com]

Why not? Knowing the justice system here will be interesting, right?

Should probably point out I'm pretty much a pro crimefighter back home, though.

[fierybluebird]

I guess so.

Err... right. You mentioned that I think.