Rusty found his analysis interrupted by something running into him, causing the robot to turn his head to address the subject. It was another being, this one dressed in metal and pointing a sharpened piece of it at Rusty, speaking ingrates gibberish they all seemed to love speaking. As his attention was diverted, a popping sound could be heard as the small being in his hands began to squirm about. Rusty was confused as to why he could only see out of only one optic unit, only to find that part his face had been coated with a strange sticky substance.

Upon realizing this, Rusty activated his Construction magic, deconstructing the him into it's base ingredients and studying the components and how they worked together to form the substance. Once his face was cleaned, he decided to release the small being, letting it fall to the ground as he turned to the other being, raiding up a hand to scan their strange adornments and the shard of metal in it's hand. Since these were very simple in design, it only took a second to scan them. After that, Rusty made a Forge sphere, in which he pumped magical energy into to form a mass of gum in it's center. He set about shaping and manipulating the various aspects of the material until he made a replica of the taller being's sword, made from hardened gum.

Once finished, the process taking a few minutes, he presented it to the two beings, holding it in a similar way as the taller being had done once shouting at him. This made it appear like he was readying his gun sword for combat of some kind, and thus, made the robot look quite ridiculous.

@Invisible Man

@Zelosse

Trinity had woken a little late to the meeting. She made the stairs just in time to hear Jamie's announcement, and what an announcement it was. She couldn't help but notice Karn moving outside, leaving Jarvis behind, either. She approached Jarvis, reaching up to touch his shoulder. Once he turned around, she spoke softly, "I think I know what that was about. Jarvis, Karn is-" She stops to listen to Damian's demands, but she shook her head. This was more important. But, then again... "Maybe we shouldn't discuss this in front of everyone in the middle of a festival." She glanced at her surroundings and then back at Jarvis. "Penny knows some, as well. And if you can find that 'Prince' guy, he knows plenty. Oh, wait, I heard Karn mention his name. Maybe you can leverage it against him... Ooh, what was it? Ah, Claire. That was it. Anyway, I better get moving. It's only getting more likely that I'll be participating, right?"

The young lady pardoned herself and set off out the door of the hotel. She should be prompt. As she stepped out the door, however, she found Karn. Her tread slowed to a stop, though her eyes were caught on something else. Some kind of... floating toy? "Karn?" She looked to her friend, concerned. "How ya doin'...? Feeling alright?" She paused, considering that he might not want to really talk about it. If he was going to be so stubborn, maybe... she should just enjoy her time with him. "Ah, what's that you've got there? Some kind of toy?"

@CirusArvennicus

Karn continued to control the made shift toy, making it fly about. Making things made him feel better, it distracted him. Though a familiar voice made itself known, and his emerald eyes flicked out from the corner of his eye. There stood Trinity. Or what looked like Trinity. The blonde's eyes narrowed at the familiar yet unfamiliar face and he gave a sigh, returning his gaze toward the toy. Controlling it so it gingerly floated back down to the ground and landed safely. Setting the control down, he turned toward the white haired girl, hands resting on his hips as his expression remained calm and neutral. Gaze looking her up and down in a calculating manner, giving a soft click of his tongue. Dropping his arms, he walked right up to her, emerald gaze staring intently into hers for a moment.

Just then, he raised his hands just in front of his shoulders and quickly reached and gripped the girl's chest. Groping her, though his calm expression didn't change.


@Caits

Prince flicked his ears a bit before giving a sneeze. He rubbed his nose a bit, wondering if someone was talking about him. Brushing the thought aside, he flicked his teal eye toward his teammate. "Mhmmm and how do you think soldier boy sees you?" the feline asked with a gentle smile.

@Raijinslayer

Marcus watched the interaction of the creature and the, what he believed to be, gum, with a new light. The creature released the same blue light and seemed to be studying to thing on its face, not bothering with the girl as she wriggled from its grasp.
While it was distracted, he motioned for the girl to get behind him incase this came to blows.
In his heart Marcus knew it likely wouldn't but had no idea how.
Finally, the creature turned to look upon him and the same blue light appeared, Marcus' suspicions were confirmed when only a few short minutes later it stood with a replica sword of its own in the very same stance as himself.

"you're.. Learning." He mumbled, raising his sword above his head, only to have the metal creature replicate the motion. Marcus' smile was one of amusement. This was no rampaging monster but more along the lines of a child, a big heavy metal one capable of creating and destroying, but a child no less.

Slowly, Marcus lowered his sword and put it upon the ground. The creature did not, or could not, speak but it had the ability to learn what it saw, so maybe.. Just maybe.

Marcus took off his helmet and put it at his feet whole lowering the colar of his coat to reveal his neck. It was a long shot here but he had to try. If it scanned his neck it would see, hopefully, part of what made him capable of speech. Maybe he would get some words out of it.
To further emphasize the idea of speech, Marcus began to mumble. His lips moved but nothing of intelligible thought escaped, just phrases and words. If it could make a sword, could it make words?

Mayt nodded, and chuckled at Bullet's remarks. The man was as amusing as he was macho. He had been about to speak again when Bullet and Isabella began talking to Lazlo. The Energy Control mage grinned just a little to himself, and he would head over and grab Sasha's arm, pulling her towards him a little. "Hey, I probably won't get to see you again before I leave Crocus, so I wanted to say good luck at the games today. I'll have to tell you the bandit story some other time though, if either of us remember about it. Or Jarvis could tell you, he was there for most of it." He smiled at the Ice Make mage, taking his hand of her elbow and giving her both a thumbs up and a grin. He'd then turn back to Bullet. "Well, if you and Isabella are interested in seeing and maybe doing the kind of things an S-Class might end up doing, feel free to follow me when I head out of Crocus. It probably won't be all that interesting, but I'd appreciate the help. Not t mention my magic can cause me to... Pass out sometimes, so it'd be nice to have someone covering me just in case." He smiled, leaving the offer there as he waved to the teams. "I'll probably be heading out after lunch." He'd adjust his belt and listen to Samir introduce Marline. She must've joined when he wasn't looking or something. Taking a breath, he backed a bit away from the group, sitting down, and deciding to let other people initiate conversation with him from this point on.

@Leslie Hall

Mithera yawned as she woke up. It took her a long moment for her to finally force herself up off the pillow, and she walked about halfway down the length of the bed before collapsing and curling up. This time not to sleep, but to scratch all those itches she always got from sleeping in new places. It took her a good five minutes before she was satisfied with her scratching, and she stood back up. It was a few more steps before she reached the end of the bed and softly leaped to the floor. She wasn't entirely sure where she was going exactly, but she wanted to find something to do. Looking up above her, she decided to take off and fly up to the top of the desk instead of trying to jump from object to object like a cat. Once there, she moved over to the window behind it ad poked her head through the curtains. She was met by the sight of someone watching their room from across the way.

Yelping, Mithera rapidly backpedaled until she almost fell off the desk. Taking a deep breath, and shaking herself she looked back over at the bed. "Valak. Can you go and get that meat ASAP? I'd like to try to change forms as fast as possible. I feel like Iron Enigma might show up at any time to try and, uh, recover me." Mithera jumped off the desk and glided over to the post on one corner of a bed, sitting there similarly to a gargoyle, looking at her one remaining Room Mate.

@Crimson Raven

The previous night, after they had been beaten, the two Mystic Beasts had been taken to the Iron Enigma hotel, and dragged down into the basement. They weren't restrained in any way, but they were both placed in chairs for the night and locked in. This morning, they could hear almost the entire guild hanging out above them, eating and drinking and using magic. It was about half an hour before the room went mostly quiet, and three people came down to the basement. Deyja Bult, Grant Vale, and the masked Solux all filed into the room. The two shadow-oriented mages stood back by the doorway, leaning against the wall on either side of it. Grant stood in the middle of the hallway to the door leading up to the first floor of the building. "Alright, I've been told to ask y'all why the hell you attacked Mark and Luna." He'd smile, looking them over, and putting a foot on a chair. "So. Why the hell did you attack a pair of S-Classes on the street last night?"

@Lugubrious

@Caits
FERRIS

An alarm clock blared from the bedside of Ferris' bed, forcing him awake from his drunken stupor. Ferris groaned as he woke up from a hangover to end all hangovers. He rubbed his head and sat up in his bed, turning the alarm off with a click of a button. "I swear, the accumulative hangovers are going to kill me one day. What the hell happened last night?" His chest was for some reason cold and he looked down to see that he was only in his pants, which were missing his belt. His jacket was laying across the bed and his belt wasn't in sight. "Huh?" Ferris heard someone stirring next to him and turned to see who it was. His face lit up pink at the sight of Jessie laying next to him with a disheveled, open shirt.

As confused as he was, he thought it would've been best to let her sleep and maybe get some breakfast for the coffee shop nearby...until he looked at the clock and saw that they were going to be late to their jobs if they didn't get going soon. Ferris grabbed her by the shoulder and begun to shake Jess hard. "Wake up, wake up. We're going to be late!"

@Zarkun@Caits
NOLAN and DALTON

A steak knife flew by Damian's head and pierced through a wall with a loud thunk. It was too damn early for Damian to be making a whistle that damn high pitched and it certainly was too damn early for the sun to be so damn bright! "Your cheerfulness is lethal." Nolan muttered, pulling his black hood up to block the sun from his eyes. Today he decided to not wear the jumper and wear his sleeveless black hoodie, black pants, and his gauntlets and pauldrons. His katana, Kaso, remained in its scabbard that was attached to his belt.

Nolan was present for Jamie's announcement. As much as he wanted to be happy for Jarvis and her, he couldn't help but wonder what else is going to happen now with Sam now that she was reincarnated. What if this wasn't their real child? No, he shouldn't over think this. Jarvis and Jamie would be able to tell if it was really their child that was reincarnated rather than a demon...Well at least he would hope so.

Breaking Nolan's thoughts, Dalton crashed on top of the God Slayer's head. The Exceed chuckled and said, "So did ya and Ariel enjoy-?"

"I'm gonna stop you there before I skin you with spoon."

@Lugubrious
ENMA

If there was anyone to ruin the peacefulness of the campsite it would've been of course everyone's favorite oni, Enma! Sitting down he was scarfing down the scalding hot oatmeal with great gusto, not giving one ounce of a damn that it was burning his tongue. With one hand he slammed the wooden bowl down and let out a deep belch, laughing afterwards. It was hard to believe that this man was actually the heir to a powerful clan of onis, let alone that he was a nobleman at all with his crude and vulgar mannerisms. "That's some good shit! Hey Xyster, mind slicing me some of that mutton? I like the slices nice and thick!" Enma chuckled and looked at Randy Newman. "You gotta be careful around her or else she'll oat you in the face."

Continuing to struggle against the grasp, it seemed that the towering figure was much stronger than an average fourteen year old girl. Her plan of escape was completely ruined after someone screamed causing her footing to sleep along the metallic skin of the creature, and that little gum trick didn't seem to even phase her attacker as it was quickly taken apart by that very same blue light... Was that piece of gum going to be her eye if she didn't blow up that bubble in his face? Sugar was just about to scream at the top of her lungs to get the attention of someone that could help her, but it seemed that her sacrifice from that piece of gum appeased the towering figure. The little girl was dropped onto the ground, ungracefully falling upon her butt, wincing in agony from the sharp pain coursing through her entire body. Rubbing her butt, she turned over towards the looming figure, the attention was diverted towards some stranger who was most likely the person to ruin her plan. The person seemed to beckon the little girl to come over towards him, but she merely gave him a pout as she slowly got up from the floor.

Turning away from the stranger and the attacker, she started to make her way towards the exit expecting the stranger to keep the attacker busy enough for her to escape. Though, something rather strange occurred happened, a familiar scent wafted towards her face. It smelled like, gum? Turning her head towards the two, she was rather surprised to see that this creature had a huge wad of gum hovering around his hands! Her eyes widened at the sight, it was much bigger than the two piece of gum that she had chewed on in the beginning! 'Holy smokes! He can make candy out of nothing!' Sugar thought to herself, almost forgetting about the earlier interaction that the two had in those few seconds for her love of candy. She shook herself out of that sugar-addled brain of hers before turning her head towards the exit and the two strangers. Maybe... Maybe she can wait and see what this thing does, and also see if she could make the thing create an infinite amount of candy! Then Master will have to stay with her when he comes back!

Rusty continued to mimic the tall being's movements until it removed the metal from it's heaf, to which the robot found himself unable to do the same. When the being presented it's neck, it took a few minutes to understand that something in the being's neck allowed it to make those strange sounds. Rusty took a second to process this thought before doing a scan of his own systems, to see if he could do the same. He came up with a negative reading on such a function, and was confused by it ever so slightly. Why do these being's have thid function, but not him? He pondered for a moment longer, than raised his hand to scan the presented part, this taking about a minute or two before he got the design. He then created another Forge sphere, except this one had a 3-D model of the being's neck inside.

Rusty peeled away all the unnecessary layers, the skin, tissue, muscles, and veins, until he got found the piece he was looking for, enlarging it for a closer study. After doing this for a bit longer, he ceased the magic, deciding that it woukd require investigation and better materials to create such a component, if he even wanted to.

. . . . . want . . . .

Rusty's head tilted to the side, confused by this new sensation. What was 'want'? What did it mean to 'want' something? So many questions, but they'd have to be saved for later. These two beings were intriquing, so he'd stay here awhile, standing silently, waiting for something to happen. He . . . wanted something to happen. Whatever that entailed.

@Invisible Man

@Zelosse

@Lunarlors34


"Umm...Marlene right? I just joined the guild, Cody Bloodstein."

"Ah pleased to meet you." Marlene replies as she shakes hands with him.

"I was involved in your.....umm episode yesterday."

"O-oh were you?" she stuttered awkwardly in embarrassment, "Y-yeah sorry about that. Lets say I was in a uh... bad mood you know?"

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@Expolar


"Ah ya' know me mate." Dreadlin replies with a chuckle, "Sometimes it gets a whole lot boring in that little village there. Many didn't want me to go ya know, but I decided to go anyways. Not like I'd be telling anyone any uh... info so, heheh. Though I only realized this mornin' that the Grand Magic Games had started so I also thought I'll take a gander ya know?"

He then pauses to look at Grane again.

"And how 'bout you and the magic council, aye? Been on any good ole' jobs and stuff lately?"

Angelo soon got diehards and ate some breakfast for the day. He believed he would be doing something today so he only ate a small breakfast before he got up and left to go to the arena. Today would be the day that Angelo proved himself to everyone that he was a great wizard. All he had to do was help win the tournament and not get his guild tossed out before they got to the championship...

Damian's response to the thrown knife was a roll to the back of the God Slayer's head. "'ey, leave the attitude in bed. We got shit to do and you aren't gonna slow it down." Turning, he calls out again. "Come on, Phoenix Wing teams, let's move! We can get food on the way!" He waits until everyone's moving again and then heads up the rear of the pack, whistling to himself.

Don't mind me, just giving Cody a watch for no reason XD
@Lmpkio
"Ah yes...I heard something about that." Cody replied as he scratched the back of his head before looking at his watch.
"Ah I have something to do....Sorry would've liked to talk a little more, but you wouldn't know where I can find a magic store? Or maybe a weapon store?" Cody asked as he quickly got out of his seat. He should probably check on the girl before he left to get a sword as well, so the sooner he got this done the better;

Michael

@silver fox
Michael sighed softly, and shrugged. "Like...Like I don't know what I'm doing. Like I'm not strong enough. Or brave enough. Like I don't belong here" He said softly. He felt like this was how he had always been seen like. Perhaps it was in his head. Perhaps it wasn't. Michael didn't know, but it was how he felt. He found his spirit keys, checking to make sure they were all there, and slid them into his pocket, making sure they were secure.

He rubbed his eyes, wishing his head would stop hurting. "I know I"m not any of those tings. At least not anymore. But I can't help but think that...people think that"

Sasha

@demous
Sasha nodded to Sayuri, "Ah, I haven't seen her, but I think she might be around here somewhere. I heard something about her" She said, looking to Damian when he encouraged them to move it. She looked at her food, before reaching for some bread, she shoved the eggs and bacon she had gotten into it, making a sandwich to eat along the way. "Looks like we have to head off" She said, grabbing a napkin.

As Mayt pulled her aside, "we will be fine! But why don't you stay?"

Jessie

@hatakekuro
Jessie stirred, finding herself in a strange, yet familiar room, and realised she wasn't alone. Her eyes widened when Ferris shook her, "I'm up, I'm up!" She yelped, realising she was halfway to being halfway naked, and she yelped again, rolling and falling off the bed, yanking her shirt closed.

She recognised that she was, perhaps, hung over. Scrambling up, she stared at Ferris, and then scrambled to the bathroom. She ran her fingers through her hair, tying it up, and then buttoning up her shirt, as she tried to remember what had happened. She was more then sure that it hadn't gone...all the way. So what had happened?

Grimacing at her reflection, a little pale, she pursed her lips and produced a glamour with her charm magic, making it seem that she was perfectly presented, before heading back into the room, clearing her throat. She smiled brightly at Ferris, deciding to just be her usual cheery self. "Well, come on, lets go!"

Penny

Penny looked up when Master Jamie wanted to make an announcement, listening as the master spoke, revealing quite a lot. Like the fact that she was female. And that she and Jarvis were married. And had a kid. Who had been dead. And was now alive again. And that was kind of Ironic, wasn't it, given the name of the guild.

Seeing that both Damian and Mayt were taking S class responsibilities, getting the teams moving and talking with new members, well, members she didn't know in any case. Was there anything she could do? She didn't know, but she watched Karn almost storm off, but not as dramatic. She wandered what that was about, and went to follow, but saw Trinity did, so left them be fore now.

As the teams began to get together, she went over to Damian, matching her pace to his. "An interesting day already"

Jarvis

"karn is sick, yes, I know" Jarvis said softly, but agreed with trinity to not speak about it right now. Still, is was worrying. Even more so when you considered a few things. Jarvs didn't want to worry Trinity, so he let the girl go, but did watch her go, run into Karn. Who seemed to promptly grope Trinity.

That stopped Jarvis for a moment, sure that that wasn't something Karn would normally do, and just seemed to add to the strangeness of the situation. Maybe he should talk with Karn sooner rather than later.

Karn didn't answer her. He just landed his toy and then approached her, after looking her over. She shifted slightly, meeting his gaze with a curious unease. He wasn't acting himself. Before she could speak, he grabbed her breasts and began squeezing.

Not exactly what you might call a buxom woman, Trinity's soft mounds were just enough to fill the hand. Firm and perky, they bounce well and squish pleasingly.

Her cheeks flushed and she gasped before swinging her arms up in a deflecting motion, trying to catch Karn at the wrists with her forearms. She stopped herself from following up with a heavier blow and instead went for a headlock, throwing in a noogie for good measure.

"And just what do you think you're doing, huh?" Honestly! You don't just grab somebody's chest. And certainly not in the middle of the street! "If you really want to feel me up, (or anybody, really), you should try asking. It might not get you beat up as much." She pinched his cheek firmly and tugged.

@CirusArvennicus

Karn simply squeezed, jiggling the two bundles of flesh in a bouncing fashion before calmly watching Trinity's reaction. The blonde didn't even attempt to counter the white haired girl's defense and counterattack. Limply allowing her to swat his wrists away, emerald eyes watching her reaction before he was caught in a headlock and promptly noogied. His expression slightly changed as his eyes twitched as he was noogied.

"Groping your boobs." He answered in a blunt manner at her question. Mumbling as she pinched his cheek he struggled out of her grasp and pulled away from her. Rubbing his cheek a little with a soft 'mhmm' sound. He had expected a much harder blow. Maybe a elbow to the face, a punch to the gut or the classic kneeing right in the special bits that made... ugh. A guy. Was it sad he was mildly curious of how actually painful it was? Maybe he had turn into a masochist. What a odd predicament.

Then again, maybe Trinity, was just too nice to do that. For now.

At her words, his calm neutral expression suddenly gave a amused sly smirk. "Oh is that so? Hey Dollface mind if I feel what is under that skirt of yours? I'm sure I can get you being the one asking for things." he asked in such a calm blunt manner, not even bothering to whisper his words as his amused smirk remained, leaning closer and patting her hip before quickly moving away with a howl of laughter.

"Ahahaha..... ahhh.. I needed that. Even if you aren't Highlights." Karn hummed with amusement, before his eyes flicked as members of the guild started pouring out of the hotel and heading off somewhere. "Mhmm guess I better follow them. Thanks for the pick me up Doll." Karn grinned, patting Trinity's cheek before crossing his arms over his chest and following the rest, his amused expression returning to the neutral one.



Prince listened to Michael's worries and gave a soft chuckle, gently patting his Guildmate's head. "Nah, I don't think they think that. Soldier boy over there just has that kind of mindset to push people proper. Nothing really against you. If anyone in the Guild would have those thoughts directed at them, it be me. After all, I'm just a humble C class with not so legal magic who more or less enjoys just lounging about in the Guild until Master throws me out on a job. Or you and Zeph take me out. And I feed of the magic off the wizards around me. So, I think your good." he chuckled before taking Michael's hand and practically dragging him out.

"Now come on! Another day of adventure!" he chirped cheerfully.

@Raijinslayer@Invisible Man

Marcus quietly replaced his helmet and stared at what he could only call a golem. A magical creature of sentience, constructed by magic and metal to give it form. Most golems he had ever encountered were just mindlessly following the will of a creator, he had personally destroyed his fair share, but this one was either lost or truly alone. But it could learn.
It had no facial features but plain as day you could see it wanted to learn everything it could but lacked the ways to do so. Step one on this would need to be communication. If it could scan the letters it could put them together to form setences right? Would it understand that. Marcus placed his chin in his hands as he began to consider the course of action he could take to help.
Lost in his own thoughts, his magic responded for him. Slowly at first, the sword at his feet began to silently break apart into blocks of uneven metal, eventually turning into the letters of the alphabet, lining up A to Z, all totally out of the control of Marcus who still was not aware of his own actions. His need to help sparked his own magic to his thoughts. When he finally looked up he held in a gasp as the floating metal letters hovered just inches from his face.
When the Golem finished scanning the letters, as he knew it would, Marcus would then try a few simple phrashes.

Name

I. Am. Marcus.

He held his breathe hoping this would work.

Well, Karn had given the obvious answer. After he wrested herself from her grip, Trinity adjusted the robes that Karn had slightly disheveled, the red just beginning to fade from her cheeks. And then Karn spoke again, and she bristled slightly. He moved in and pat her on the waist, and softly on the cheek before dancing away. He left, with the rest of the guild, to go to the Arena.

That wasn't Karn, was it? He called her Dollface and Doll and... and... "Who the hell is Highlights?" Trinity huffed, cooling her temper before she, herself, began to head to the arena. On the way past the guild's hotel, she spotted Jarvis, and headed toward him to talk. "Okay, so. When you find Claire? Prince, whatever. Karn's acting really weird. He called me Doll and Dollface. And he said 'even if you aren't Highlights', well who's Highlights? When did he get so... vulgar? Eugh." Trinity grumbles and shuffles a bit in place, before realizing, "I should be getting to the arena. Anything you need from me, Jarvis?"

@silver fox

"it's different with you. You're the only one who can scare Master Jack" Michael pointed out, speaking softly, and once more finding himself being dragged along. He supposed he should be use to that by now, but it always caught him by surprise. He managed to stay on his feet, "and the difference is you could be a powerful Mage if you really wanted to be" he added, managing, just, to shut the door as Prince hurried him along.

Another day of the games. Another day of watching. Michaels thoughts trailed to his brother, hoping that Gabriel was okay. Michael knew that he could send Hermes to find out, but thought that might be the wrong move at the moment. Still, he couldn't help but worry.

"there was something strange last night" Michael said suddenly, the Uneasy feeling he had just out towards the drinks coming to him,"something powerful. I hope nothing's wrong with the spirits. Something seems...of balance" the blue haired Mage looked about, as if to detect any troubles in the spirit world. "I don't know. I don't like it"


@CirusArvennicus
Jarvis listened to Trinity's concerns, "I know who Prince is, he's in dragon fang. As for highlights...well. I think that was...your Edolas version. we will figure it out, Trinity. Just watch Karn, okay?" Jarvis meanwhile would try and find out what had happened to Edolas Karn. And find out if his suspicions were true or not. "go. The rest of the guild will be along soon"

"Oh, I made a promise I would help some people, and I don't want wanna wait too long for that. I might get to stay until lunch though." Mayt would smile at Sasha, giving her a thumbs up from his seat. "But I'm sure you'll kill it." He'd smile a bit more at her, before glancing at the other people around him again.

"My... Edolas version?" Oh yeah, she remembered that. Some of the members disappeared in that weird light for a few months. It was the day she joined the guild. And what a first day that had been. Jarvis bade her go, and she didn't disagree. "Alright. I'll see you at the Arena, Jarvis." The young lady turned to leave, waving her farewell before she'd jog ahead. She should show up on time, today.

Her Edolas version, huh? Was something going on with Edolas, again?