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I picture her as bi/pan, but no-one from the male group really appeals to her so far lol.
Valeria Nicole Alvarez-Knight
Brooklyn College library -> Home -> Central Park AA meeting location
As I checked my black rubber band watch, I realized I would have to leave the campus library soon. I looked over my notes one last time, admiring the slanting cursive of my penmanship, the blue-inked pages inter-spread by a colourful title or occasional underlining here and there. Yeah, I was one of those people who still made hand-written notes, but I think I was much better off compared to the crazy dedicated ones who took the time to make sure all their notes were neat, writing them in block letters. Block letters! You might as well do everything in Word.
I closed my notebook, it was one of those leaf binder styles, cheap but pretty. I stashed it and all my other things into a light olive-green backpack with a pattern of dark-leaves-and-flowers. I headed outside and had to squint as the natural winter light made my eyes water. It was only mid-afternoon. I would have usually stayed studying well into the evening. But today, I had to leave early not because of the shorter opening hours on Fridays and weekends, but because I had my first AA meeting scheduled all the way up in Central Park. If I told people it was actually meant for superpowered people, they’d put me into the madhouse straight away, so if I had to say anything at all, I’d say it was a therapy group. Those that know me well would just nod knowingly, might even comment how good it was of me trying to get a handle on my anger issues. Yeah, I’d get pissed at ‘em for it. Goes to show how right they are, I guess. I took a deep inhale and thought about how nice it was to be in a good mood. I usually am when I get to focus on a task. So, there was absolutely no reason to get irritated, especially not for something so simple as a passing thought. I kept chanting No reason for irritation, good mood, nice crisp winter weather, good mood, no anger at myself, but could feel my facial muscles doing their best to terrify the poor passers-by with the whole gargoyle impersonation schtick they were trying to pull off.
By the time I reached and unlocked my bike – a nice black-and-white road bike I could ride year-round excepting cases of black ice or too deep snow – I had to press myself not to start growling. The 15 to 20 minutes of furious pedalling towards my rental apartment room managed to cool me down, both figuratively and literally. I felt my lungs starting to freeze and had to mentally brace myself for the upcoming the hour-long ride I would have to make to Central Park, and another to get back home. I shivered thinking about it, even though my body had warmed up some due to the exercise, locked up my bike, and entered the common room of our apartment. Someone, Reggie at least, must have recently been there, because I saw some left-over Mexican food. I heated it up, not feeling like a thief – we had a sort of an arrangement; everyone contributed whatever they could for the co-residents, and we all ended up better for it. It was real nice but not a thing you saw nearly enough. Rare, even. Especially with people having to move out. I knew of cases around here where people had been evicted for no reason other than bigoted jerks existing. I suddenly felt the urge to bash someone’s head in. The best alternative I had right then was digging into my food with more force than was strictly necessary.
After my meal, I quickly showered, put on my long black athletic pants, a white-striped dark blue long-sleeved shirt, a hoodie with a multi-coloured vibrant tiger print, and my usual camo winter coat last. For the cold, I also added a dark grey woollen beanie and scarf, black faux-leather gloves, and one of those black-brown winter sneakers. Then I emptied my backpack of anything but the necessities and took my bike on an 11-mile long ride. Yeah, I guess some people would call me crazy. My lungs certainly thought I was, but I ignored the protests. Some minutes short of an hour later, I arrived at Central Park. When I locked my bike to the rack, I saw someone else had chosen the same method of transportation. I immediately felt a kinship with whoever had done so. I decided then and there I would do my best to find the fellow cyclist and at least exchange names, if not get on friendly terms with them. Adrenaline-fueled and surprisingly hopeful, I entered the building right after a blonde male. Seeing as most of the chairs were filled already, I was one of the last ones to arrive. Beside Dr. Slate, whom I’d Googled, I recognized no-one on sight.
There was a lady standing a bit apart from the other, seemingly yet undecided if or where she’d sit. She was well dressed, had a really nice coat, and the snack area was a bit crowded, so I approached her. The long and brown-haired female was maybe 2 or 3 inches shorter than me naturally, but her heels made us pretty much even. She was so preoccupied I wasn’t sure she’d even notice me. Even so, I introduced myself. “Hey there, I’m new here. Name’s Valeria. How about you?”
I didn’t feel like staring at her all the while, even though she was good-looking, so I checked out the others. Two other females were dressed rather nice, and I eyed both appreciatively. Hey, I know this ain’t a dating meet-up, but what else are you supposed to get from appearance only if not attractiveness? The only male worth noting based on a quick glance was the blonde, maybe. The rest were a ginger, a holiday enthusiast, and…a rapper-wannabe? I wasn’t sure what else to think what with all the jewelry. If it were me I’d probably manage to dip a chain in soup or smack someone accidentally, so I had to wonder how worth the style was for all the inconvenience it brought. I blinked my eyes to stop the rambling train of thoughts and politely refocused on the woman I’d chosen to stand next to.
Wild
Yeah, I doubt I would do those kind of side stories either, unless I felt particularly inspired or felt that I had too much waiting time. So, probably not, no.
Rift
Leaf
Asteria
Even though she had planned on knocking the skeleton down, Asteria only managed to fracture one of its legs. She tried getting to its skull despite that, but the skeleton raised up its arms to protect itself. That only made Asteria more determined to crush the skull, but while she was planning how to do that, the zombie-skeleton lashed out at her. She saw the blur of movement and made to move away. She was hit nonetheless and, somewhat surprisingly, thrown back. The monster hadn’t actually struck her hard, however, and had managed to throw her away only because she was unbalanced. I could be getting better at these confrontations after everything, she noted the slight improvement in reflexes to herself, satisfied with the development.
Suddenly, the skeleton turned towards the entrance to Jason’s tunnel. Asteria followed its gaze until she saw what it was focusing on, and found Digbie. Rather than contemplating what the skeleton’s reasons for seemingly hating one of them were, Asteria regained her balance, and approached the skeleton once again. She moved in its peripheral vision, but it didn’t react. When she was close enough, Asteria grabbed its damaged leg, wrapping both paws around it and poised her teeth at its kneecap, intending to tear it out. Briefly, she remembered to activate Mana sense, curious whether she could kill the skeleton by draining its mana completely. Before the latter became relevant, however, a shimmering aura appeared around her and right after, the skeleton was dropped by a magic bullet of an attack.
Asteria was still holding onto the skeleton while trying to sense its mana, but after its skull was crashed, that was probably unnecessary, so she let go of the skeleton. As for sensing mana, she concentrated on feeling her own magical energy, then tried drawing it out of her body and get it to touch the shimmery aura – a shield, if her previous experiences were to be trusted. There was nothing physical to touch, but she could see the magic in effect, so Asteria continued fiddling with her attempt to touch the foreign-but-slightly-familiar mana with her own until the shield dissipated. Then she blinked her eyes several times, rubbing at them carefully with her paws to dissipate the itching sensation. She knew she’d have to go sleep soon, but before that, someone had helped her once again. And if she was correct in her assumption…She peered up above, and the shiny pixie was impossible to miss. “Oberon? Is that you?” she questioned, using Monster analysis on him to find out what he had evolved into.
Just then though, Asteria was distracted by a gurgling bubbling sound, and almost got whiplash from how swiftly she turned her head towards the sound. She was torn between relief and concern upon discovering the small stream forming. How…? Wait, lake, water underground, line straight to Jason’s tunnel…Just Rain then, maybe, not an enemy. Nonetheless, the black-furred Dire Rat approached the creek cautiously, put a paw in, and prodded at her magical energy to get it to discern whether there was anything magical at all about the lake water. Regardless of what she found out, it was at this time that Jason finally arrived with the group he had taken from whatever they were doing. “Yeah, they appeared pretty much right after we killed the goblin boss,” Asteria commented after Jason’s mention of the killed skeleton. She then listened to his telepathic message, once again drawing on her mana to get it to centre at her head, aiming to somehow sense the psychic energy she assumed Jason had to project for them to hear anything. As Jason finished his “explanation” she couldn’t help but wonder what the bitch comment was all about. An actual traitor? Or just his paranoia kicking up? He had even admitted being affected by the dungeon core not that long ago.
Asteria then proceeded to observe in fascination and wonder as Jason chanted, and his earth-based magic answered almost eagerly, burying the skeletal remains. So…speech, maybe language in general is useful for magic. Will have to try that out. She certainly agreed with sleeping and evolving in a safe spot, though whether Jason’s tunnel was truly the optimal location for that was a different matter. And yet… “Thank you, Oberon, but I don’t want to leave Mother Rat alone here, and she’s already sleeping. Perhaps in the morning. Especially with all these zombies popping out,” she sighed. Simply put, she was also dead-tired. She just wanted to curl up and sleep. And not travel who knows who far to do so. Maybe she should simply dig herself a hole and any zombies would mistake her for one of their own…? No, no, no stupid ideas. Why do we have to have these weak youngling bodies, can’t even function after a day without sleep…
Even as she continued grumbling to herself, and while Jason was searching for Rain, Asteria took care of another concerning matter – the creek. As small as it was, she wasn’t about to risk a flooding, even if that was an irrational concern. So, Asteria chose a spot on the ground decently away from both the stream and the fresh grave, and began digging, searching for large rocks, yanking any she found out of the earth and put them aside. After finding two decently sized ones, she lugged them both to the creek, dragging one by her tail - after having looped the appendage around it - and pushing the other in front of her with her paws. She pushed both rocks into the muddy creek floor in a make-shift dam, reinforcing the structure by digging some earth and mud on top of it hastily. She then lay down a meter or two away from the stream, not to sleep, but to check whether overflowing was going to be a problem or not.
Rough
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