Okay, it's a few minutes after we returned to the base, Hinako has been taken from her ejection pod and is on her way to her own medcenter, Kiku headed back to her room because she was tired, Nova ran off to put some clothes on, where did Hilde go? * Hilde is in her room, playing videogames to try to take her mind off what happened [About half an hour after the incident, there's a sharp knock on Hilde's door.] * Hilde hits pause and answers "Yes?" * Keika speaks flatly, but loud enough to be heard from the other side of the door, "This is Keika, I would like to talk to you about what happened this morning. May I come in?" * Hilde sighs and opens the door "Whatever" * Keika steps in as soon as the door is open wide enough for her to fit through, as usual Karasu is riding in on her shoulder, "Thankyou, this will only take a moment." "Planning to chew me out for being irresponsible, huh?" * Hilde sits on her bed (describe your room for the birdy?) (Her room is kinda basic with a desk in one corner with a computer, a large TV set against the wall to the left of the back wall with a number of console machines connected to it, and a bed against the back wall. (There are a number of suitcases sitting here and there) (Obviously she's not very tidy) * Karasu looks around the room twitching its head to look from one object to the next. * Keika closes the door behind her, "No, I am not going to 'chew you out' I am going simply going to state a few simple facts." "Fire away" * Keika turns her body so it faces Hilde and her bed, "One, the Slythe have a nasty habbit of exploding, the last one was packing a nuke. I am told that part of Tokyo glows in the dark now. So if I, or Kiku tell you to run away. We mean it. I am cofedent in Hirameku's speed and strength. I know how long I can wait, and when that time is up." * Hilde turns her head to one side and looks at the floor "I don't abandon friends..." "I'd rather die than leave people behind" There was nothing you could do, which brings me to my second point. If you ever get between me, and my target again, I will cut you down. You are not my friend, at the moment you are an impedement. And, as I have need to use your mech as a shield, all you did was delay me and put your 'friend' in more danger. If you manage to do something usefull during the next fight I may forgive you. If you want to die, do so out of my way and I will forget you. If you do so by getting in my way I will remember to curse your name every time something goes wrong. * Hilde looks down and says quietly "So that's how it's gonna be then" "You don't have to worry about me getting in your way anymore" * Keika gestures at Hidle's TV, "Good. This is not a game; there are no save files. If you screw up you cannot simply start life over again. I came here to warn you of this because I have whitnessed far too many people who thought reality was like movies, and were quite surprised when they died." "I know the difference" * Keika smiles slightly and nods, "Good. Now, in the interest of my staying out of your way to avoid the irony of you being able to deliver this speach back to me, what can your mech do with that hammer Karasu has told me about?" * Karasu bobs its head at the end of that. * Hilde relaxes a bit "Oh it smashes stuff. Not much to it. Uses some kinda vibrational shockwave thing to break up molecules. Needs those two thrusters on the head to keep it on target when I swing it" Is that all? "Well it can be thrown too and flies back to Mjolnir's hand after hitting whatever it was thrown at" Interesting. So you have attacks for both fighting up close and from a distance, that does give you an advantage over Hinako. "Yeah, Molnir is supposed to be designed for fighting in close to mid-range. I think Dad's company is concidering an artillery unit or something to back it up but I dunno what they have in mind" Let us hope that it is something capable of hitting the correct targets then. What company does your father work for? "Asgard Heavy Industries out of Sweden. He's CEO I think" * Karasu looks Hilde up and down as Keika sighs. "I don't see him much since he spends more time at the office than at home" Home being in Sweden, which you, yourself seem to be a long way from. "Well dad shipped me out here so I could study at one of those Japanese technology schools in Tokyo" * Keika lets a bit of amusment into her voice, "Thoes schools? You do not know which one?" "Beats me. I can't read kanji very well" Pehaps if you had atteneded classes somebody would have enlightened you. "Maybe. I didn't really think I fit in very well. And the walk from the place to the apartment was long an lonely" "Big cities are pretty lonesome when you don't know anybody" So, you set out to make some friends. Understandable, but they are not here now, and you're loanly again. Just remember that this is a dangerious world and you should live long enough to make some new ones, perhaps even to see your old ones again. * Hilde nods That is all I came here for. Good day to you. "See you later" * Keika turns and opens the door. * Karasu looks back over its shoulder as the door swings shut after Kieka. * Hilde unpauses the game and resumes playing [Mini End]