Snippet #1352583

Mars was sure this day couldn't get any worse. No licorice.

Paying for what foods he had, he followed the girl out the door. He certainly did not want to continue this hunt through the Beta District, but if she knew where a shop was that could sell him licorice, the scientist was certainly willing to go. Pulling his hood a bit farther over his face, he readjusted the bag under his arm and glanced at the young girl with his crystalline eyes. She was a fiery sort, seemed to have a wild attitude, and was certainly not from Beta originally. One couldn't forget that Mars was a scientist and he did a lot of observing, even of the human variety.

Knowing he shouldn't remain silent because of her obvious kindness, Mars thanked her.

"I appreciate you showing me to a shop. It may seem petty, but it helps me to think at very critical moments in my studies."

His studies.

Perhaps the equation dealing with the molecular level of the Mana inside his wand was off somewhere? But he'd gone over it so many times. And that would be like starting over! What kind of mad man would begin again after so much had been accomplished? Had he actually accomplished anything, though?

Yes! He was walking around in public with one of the greatest accomplishments his studies had produced! Marissa had even thought so... It was she that was making him continue on. Full transfiguration. And answers as to why it had reacted so badly when she...

"Where is this shop?" He sounded more irritated than he'd meant, but Mars just kept his eyes down. His thoughts had horrible ways of becoming catastrophic so quickly. It was safer in his basement where he could hide from those thoughts and from the people that brought them to the surface.