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Orsin Tanzini
The bleachers filled surprisingly fast, he noticed he was probably the biggest person there, and on the older side of them as well. Which meant they were aiming at younger kids, or the younger kids were more effected by tests. Anyway, the planes were timed just right as students and their guides fell and landed in quick succession with no troubles, Only on two accounts did people miss the targets. One of them landed on another student, a really short one for that matter, and the other seemed to miss the mark by only a little but hitting the ground hard. Orsin thought for sure he saw his leg bend a way that no leg should ever bend, but not too long after the kid was up and walking over to the same bleachers.
Looking around he saw little that indicated what to do next other than a podium with the insignia on the front. Once the bleachers were all filled up a man much bigger than even Orsin walked up to the stand, not many people were bigger than him, maybe thicker or more bulky which this man was, but not many were taller. This guy was a beast. He had a professional hair cut and a well kept beard. The man started to speak and introduced himself as the schools principle, it sounded as if he were speaking through a tuba. His voice was low but projected and very loud. Yet despite the circumstanced Orsin could here him just perfectly. He talked about the schools history and how it had been around for ages but kept in secret because the world would shun kids like us, they told us that this was no genetic mutation and that no gamma rays were shot into us. He explained that they have set up extensive connections to all hospitals and had been collecting data from children that have "Evolved DNA". Then once the symptoms of the evolution start to display themselves they invite to bring the kids here.
Then what the principle said next made Orsin excited to hurry and end this, "I hope you all have your tablets. They have monitored you your entire life. They are practically a digital version of you, that is tied to our school library, You can ask your tablet anything without saying a word and it will dig through our entire library for the answer, and relay the information back to your brain. Some of you might have even experienced this already. How do you suppose you learned to parachute? Most of you would have never dreamed of parachuting before you jumped out of the plane isn't that right?" Weird, all of what he was saying was believable but so crazy it seemed almost otherworldly. The principle continued, "Furthermore, I want you to ask your tablet without saying anything, ask in your mind, what a pod is, first. Then what number pod you have, and finally how to get there. I'm sure you all will find your way easy. You will be rooming with other freshmen. Fair warning. I suggest you make them your friends because they will be your family for the rest of your time here, and hopefully after." Orsin wanted to ask how long they were supposed to be here, and what they were going to do once they left. But he was sure all his questions would be answered soon enough. Then he directed his thoughts at his tablet. "So? Whats a pod? What number is mine, and how do I get there?" Sure enough the tablet explained everything to him, told him the room number then as if he had lived there his whole life, he knew exactly where to go.
"You all are dismissed."
Since Orsin was in the front, he got up quickly and started towards his new home, the pod, excited to meet the people he would be calling family. He walked at a brisk pace hoping that he wouldn't be last, even though none of the other freshmen had passed him yet. He looked towards the building that he knew his pod was in, it was a giant structure sticking out of a cliff face. Every housing unit was suspended out in the air, stylishly supported by large rock beams that looked as if they were made from solid obsidian or something crazy. Reaching the doors, which mind you are implanted into the rock, he walked into a lobby that looked like a cave system, however lighted by bright foot well lights.
>Take off your shoes. Your house may be in here but others are too, its customary.
Orsin took off his shoes and put them on a tray which receded into the floor and disappeared with them.
>Don't worry, Ill have your shoes out and ready any time you want to go anywhere.
Orsin shrugged, the floor was cool and felt nice anyway, Guess he didn't mind much. He went to the stairs and started skipping up them, no elevators, probably for fitness sake. Judging by all the non-freshmen, fitness was a high priority here. Most of the girls looked even stronger than him, and he wasn't out of shape in the slightest. Finally after rounding the staircase the last time he saw a door labeled, SIX, Floor 6. That's where his pod was, Every year each floor is cleared of its seniors and prepared for the freshmen, there were two floors for each grade. Freshmen were on floors 2 and 6, sophomores 3 and 7, etc. He walked down the long hallway with doors only to his right, He had Pod 7, So he walked passed six doors until he reached his.
>swipe the insignia over the black pad there.
Orsin did and heard the locking mechanism unlock and he pushed the door open, "So if anyone steals my clothes they can get into my room?" he thought to himself.
>No. The clothes are bio-locked. So they only way the insignia works is if you are wearing the clothes.
"Oh, Cool."
Orsin went in and found a seat on the couch, tablet in hand, and waited for his comrades to arrive.