Link's Story

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Tess found her balance was off and fell straight back, but being a demigod, she managed to turn enough to landon her side rather than her butt. What was unfortunate though, was that the tiny pieces Tess was working with, flew into the grass. She nearly groaned out loud as she tried to pick up the pieces. She looked around, finding a few pieces but not seeing the smallest of them. This caused her to sigh, unhappy that she had lost pieces that she had needed in order to fix the phone. She hoped she had some spare parts back in her room. She could get it working again, but not with the same system or anything.

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She hadn't even noticed the ferrets until they had already run off. She looked up to then see some girl she didn't know. She rolled to sit on her but, holding the phone pieces in her lap unhappily. She looked back up at the girl and nearly, nearly, rolled her eyes. She looked at the girl with a curious look, wondering if it was possible she could have gotten a concussion from that hit. How could one be so... blind to their own fault?

"I was trying to fix a phone. Now I don't have all the parts I need. Got any extra contact clips, logic boards, or flex cords?" Tess asked as she realized she had torn one of the cords with the small eyeglass screwdriver she had been using. She sighed, running a hand through her hair, looking around her one last time before standing and pocketing the remains with both hands. That side of the romper then titlted, pulling down though the shoulder parts kept it from sliding down badly.

"Sorry, I ran out of some other parts last night. It's hard to get ahold of the ones you need when you don't have the ability to pull parts out of thin air. Name's Tess, yours?" She asked, finding that she was at fault for the situation as much as this other girl was. Neither could really help it, unless Tess coul work looking up and this other girl did whatever she was doing with her eyes open or whatever. She put her hands in her pocket, smiling at the girl with the biggest smile she could muster, which wasn't very large since she wasn't very happy.

Tess studied the girl with the eyes of a mechanic, taking her all in with one sweep of her gaze. The girl was someone Tess probably wouldn't really talk to or start a conversation with unless something like this, which wasn't the best, had happened. "And where'd you learn German?" Tess asked, her curiosity about the language causing her to ask.

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Tess considered the girl's name. She had heard that name when she had gone into a video game store once. There was some tournament going on but she had ignored it because she had been busy picking up a bunch of broken video game systems so she could fix them and return them to the store so they could then be returned to the rightful owners who were super happy about their fixed gaming system that had cost them hardly anything.

Tess just shook her head slightly at the question, finding that it was probably rude what she had said, but it wasn't entirely her fault the two ran into each other, and she had lost parts as a result. She looked down, over at the crowd of kids heading to the dining area. Tess could tell the girl was headstrong, and wasn't the... friendliest person ever. She was talking a lot, Tess did too, but this girl was comfortable about it, or appeared to be at least. Tess knew she didn't appear comfortable because she was hardly standing still.

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Tess found that as the subject changed from inventions to languages, she was at a loss of words. She only knew three, so how was she supposed to know what this girl was saying in German? She wondered if the girl was saying something about her or was just asking a question or saying something simple. Tess imagined learning languages growing up and wished her mother had done it for her. Her mother wasn't actually as close as she was now back when Tess was growing up so it wasn't a large surprise.

Tess just shrugged her shoulders, shaking her head that she didn't understand. The laughing caused Tess to ease slightly, making her feel better about the conversation. Maybe this girl was a cool girl who Tess might talk to in the future. When Link pushed Tess, Tess fell back down again just as before, though this time, landing on the phone remains in her pocket. She winced slightly into the grass, not showing the face to Link before she smiled and rolled to yet again sit on her butt.

"I speak French and Latin too, so I just recognized it really. So, you're a child of Ares... You have the strength for it. Doesn't the name Link have to do with electronics?" Tess asked hoping to go back to topics she understood, and liked. She said it with a shyness that caused her to feel like it was very obvious that she was uncomfortable about the current subject, languages and people. She was more like her father than she thought, unknowingly though.

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'Come down to the dining hall, we get a feast, plus I need some entertainment, you've got five minutes. :P' the text from Dylan said. Danny looked at the test, observing the name the text was said to come from. Danny had put the name into the phone as Dilly the Brain since he knew he could go to Dylan with any question, and had thought he was really smart when they first met. Danny groaned, sliding down even further to be laying on the floor as he looked into his room for Altair. "Altaaaaaaiiiiir," Danny called, "The meeting and our friends are waiting!" Danny looked at his phone again, then texted back: I have my guitar, Altair is just taking foreeeever. Danny was still on the floor as he just let the hand holding the phone fall to the ground. He was basically taking up the entire hall now, and he didn't really care.