“Ah, excuse me for a moment would you?” Jäger said as she spotted the building that would be her home for the foreseeable future. It was a poor excuse for a house, especially for someone like Charlotte Jäger Neumann who for the majority of her life had lived very well. However it was still significantly better than the majority of the local domiciles at this level of the social hierarchy. The windows were boarded up, as she had requested in her note, along with a new lock to which only she had a key. Not that either would stop any determined attackers but it was better than nothing. “Let’s see now,” she said as she unlocked the door and peered inside. As she had expected it was pretty run of the mill, though it would serve her purposes well enough.
She brought her luggage into the entrance way and looked around curiously, half expecting something nasty to crawl out of the shadows. Slightly disappointed she made her way to the main bedroom, lugging her luggage along with her. Once in what would be her bedroom she started to change her into her new clothes, specifically the no-star uniform that had been provided to her in anticipation of her arrival. Once dressed she place the headphones back around her neck and tied a large red bow into the back of her hair. She then sorted through her luggage to quickly extricate the essentials from the frivolous, packing into her school satchel not just the essential books and stationary but her first aid kit, supplies and her father’s hunting knife. Once ready she rushed back downstairs and locked the house behind her.
“Ah, sorry about that, wait for me!” she said aloud, satchel over one shoulder, bow case dangling from the other as she rushed to catch up with the others. They were not too far from the outermost school entrance now, evidenced by the mass of student’s jostling each other so as not to be late. Jäger had heard that tardiness was not something that was tolerated here. Not even in the slightest. She looked around to make sure they were not being observed by anyone wearing star-branded uniforms. “We should stick together, at least for the moment. Right now we’re vulnerable, obviously, so we can’t just go and start causing trouble.” Jäger knew she was stating the obvious but she felt that it needed saying regardless.
