It's the anniversary. Glam would very much not like to celebrate.
It’s their last day on Winslow High—they’re being transferred to Arcadia on Monday—and also their last day without a patrol schedule assigned.
And the PRT released a small announcement on its website about Glam joining the Wards. Now their wiki page doesn’t get erased, of course—they’re no longer speculative. They wonder what it’s got on them.
...stop avoiding the subject.
"So, uh, Boots told me something and I'd feel bad if you didn't know I knew."
"Yeah. I, uh, didn't want to know something like that you didn't tell me and know about, so."
"People don't usually talk about their trigger events. Mine was just a little less private than some of them. I didn't know Boots was telling people about it."
"I don't see a reason to like him very much. I didn't say he ought to like me, either, it's just that he's not a particularly good audience for talking me up."
"That's... not how I'd put it," he decides after a second. "It's not like I'm actively doing anything to like people, I just like them."
"If you say so. Anyway. I spent less than the limit dosage under the influence, if you're worried about that."
The following day, Glam has patrolling scheduled with Lorica. They won't be allowed to patrol on their own for a while, where 'for a while' isn't a predetermined amount of time as much as it is 'until they are.' They're okay with that. They get along fine with the other Wards, even if the YG incident left the Wards a bit cold towards them.
Somehow, though, patrolling is much less fun when scheduled with a starting and an ending time.
The schedule's nothing new to Lorica. She hops roof to roof, robots fanned out around her.
...it's the afternoon. Why are people setting off a light show over there?
"What's that?"
A bot goes to have a look.
She's not bulletproof, unfortunately, and there are quite a few people who possess bullets threatening to use them against her. They're defending an old warehouse, which she's not in fact levelling, but she is throwing blasts of light at some of the people there. All in all, everyone's pulling their punches.
"Purity, some people with guns, doesn't look quite like anyone outright wants to commit murder today."
"Does it look like she's doing it with a particular reason or is she just harassing people? ...it's one of the Asian gangs, isn't it? Should we call backup?"