Snippet #2279196

Ethelyn woke up to her roommate-less double, sure she had a roommate a day ago but that girl didn't understand that Ethelyn's snakes were completely harmless. You would think an Archon student would have the guts to live with a few reptiles. Regardless she enjoyed the extra space for willow's giant tank.

She sighed and looked at her alarm clock realizing today was the entrance ceremony, she had to be at her best today, as Lieutenant she actually had a real title to defend now. To wake herself up she grabbed darts from her bed side table and started with her dart board, as silly as it seemed it was the best way to warm up her wrist for the heavier, far more deadly needles and daggers. Once she could get a bulls-eye every time she unrolled her throwing needle kit. She took a plantless pot of soil from the window sill and emptied its contents on the floor of her room in a simple pile. Hand outstretched toward the soil Ethelyn formed the incantation on her lips and the dark earthy runes formed at her fingertips. Pooling aura at the soil it soon began to coil and move as six small dirt mice formed. That was all it took to set Ethelyn's aura on fire, incantations poured from her mouth as she instructed the mice to scatter and play a game of moving targets.

With a scary level of lethal accuracy Ethelyn pulled a needle out with a single swift movement and hit the first mouse through the eyeball. As her incantations continued the mice began to run faster and evade her attacks. She danced around the small room singing her incantations with her needles firing at the tiny targets until every last one lay a defeated pile of dirt. With a final stretch she sang the dirt back into the pot as runes shined in front of her.

She was no well prepared for the day both mentally and physically. After a shower and dawning her uniform for the first time this year she admired the way her uniform fit her form perfectly, regal, deadly, yet feminine. This year her uniform was actually starting to look professional with the lieutenant decorations and Class B ranking. With a final good-bye to her snakes she left the room for the morning's ceremonies.

Arriving on the crowded scene Ethelyn was able to find the location of her Platoon rather easily, especially since Kai the Giant hitchhiker was in the area already. She smiled as she saw the giant was the firearms leader for one of her squads.

"Specialist Cavelier, I believe we met before under different circumstances." Ethelyn approached Kai standing tall and letting her aura add to her presence. "I see you are the firearms leader for my first squad, it will be pleasure working with you specialist." She greeted him with all of the formalities necessary, she was barely recognizable as the angry rich girl that lost a stupid card game to a street rat of a boy.