Enter Astara

[embracetheflame]

[1]

[Very shortly after the previous battle there seems to be another silver-haired girl wandering around Alhambra Base. In her hand is a small map with what seems to be directions to the base. The expression on her face seems to indicate that she's annoyed with something.]

First those darned guards wouldn't let me in, and now I can't even find her anywhere!

...Maybe I should have told her I was coming first.



[2]

[A bit later the same girl can be found in front of a vending machine with her fist shaking in anger. One of the bottles seems to have gotten jammed. ]

Why you...

[She seems to resign in defeat for a moment before glancing around carefully. Once she assumes that no one else is around she lifts the large machine over her head like it was a toy and starts shaking the machine wildly. Eventually the bottle of tea finally emerges from the machine and she sets the machine back down calmly.]

Haha victory is mine!



[3] [Locked to ???]

[A long day of wandering later, the girl has collapsed outside Alhambra in failure.]

Wheeerrrrrreeee are yooooouuuuuuuuuuuu!?

[She sounds utterly defeated.]

Comments

[ugyuuya]

[Yuuya grabs one of the bottles noting it as a sports drink before cracking the seal and taking a drink.]

Level with me is it a trait of all Kijin to freak out like this? Seta did about the same when she first gave me a hint at her greater than normal strength and when the BETA ate her body, avatar, or whatever you call it the secret came out. Add in the crazy dragon that crushed Willis and was absorbed by Seta or something afterwards and you just kinda stop questioning.

I mean we have martial artists who shoot energy from their fists, a "demon" who summons a robot from her shadow, a russian boy who fights with a plant monster, Willis HEALING from being crushed into a ball of scrap within a day, aliens, immortals, resurrected science wizards, robots, and a guy who's arm is now covered in eyeballs. Seta really isn't all that unusual given that. It's actually more rare to have someone like me on a mission than a secret super powered entity.

At this point would you like a guide to help you check some of the common areas? At the very least I can take you somewhere to sit down and enjoy your tea while you calm down.

[embracetheflame]

Wait wait wait slow down a bit, did you say that Seta absorbed a dragon?

[For some reason that seems to have gotten her to become serious.]

[ugyuuya]

Well that's what I'm assuming happened after the last mission she was on. Willis was crushed by a dragon Kijin, Seta fully manifested her, craft I think you call it? We kill it and then in the last mission Seta was able to fully manifest her craft and then change forms into a golden unit instead of the white-silver one and it used a spear instead of it's other weapons.

Is that not a normal thing for you guys?

[embracetheflame]

[Astara shakes her head, she looks rather confused at that whole thing.]

Not at all, I've never heard of any Kijin doing something like that.

[There's a pretty worried expression on her face as she scribbles down some notes on a notepad she pulled from her jacket.]

That's really weird...

[ugyuuya]

Hmm... I just thought it was normal. I mean the dragon did seem to recognize something when Seta took her craft form and all that was going on. After she was eaten, turned into a mouthed tentacle and ate a bunch of BETA before turning "human" again I just kinda stopped questioning things.

That's actually happened a lot recently now that I think about it.

What normally happens to a fallen Kijin when you guys are done with it?

[embracetheflame]

Nothing, they should just die normally and their souls should linger for a few days before they're scattered to the winds.

Something like that happening...that's new to me also.

[ugyuuya]

Well given the general craziness and everything else maybe I just made certain assumptions that may or may not be accurate. It seemed that General Hetepheres was convinced of that though and I typically trust her judgement as sound.

Anyways that's pretty much what I know of this and while I get along well with Seta we're not entirely open about everything since pasts are a private issue best left buried if it's not immediately pertinent to a situation.

[embracetheflame]

I see, well...thanks anyways for telling me about this.

[She offers a hand.]

Astara Kellin.

[ugyuuya]

[Taking the hand firmly]

Yuuya Bridges. Now did you need any further assistance or are you going back to your own special brand of stealth there shadow?

[Looks like someone may have caught a nickname.]

[embracetheflame]

Nah I'll be fine, I mean it can't be that hard to find Seta.