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The Summers girls have spent the afternoon, evening, and following morning packing. They took a break last night to order from their favorite pizza place, but now it's getting close to lunch time and they're packed for two weeks away. They've got casual clothes, a few dressy things, a lot of exercise clothes, toiletries, shampoo, conditioner, both their laptops, and Zoey's toolkit.
"I think that's about everything, yeah?"
"Yeah! I'll message Romana."
She opens a DM with Romana on Discord.
Hey! We're all done packing. No rush, but we're ready to head over whenever works for you.
She sends over a rideshare tracking link for an extra large ride - looks like it's a little suite in downtown. The app estimates 7 minutes for the driver to arrive to their place, and around 30 for the drive.
They haul their bags down to the street with a minute or two to spare, load them into the trunk, and start on their way.
"I'm so excited, Dawn. What do you think everyone else is going to be like? Do you think they've got cool swords? Do you think there's a forge where we're going? Or room for us to set up a workshop?"
"If Romana's any hint, they're gonna be interesting." Dawn replies with a grin. "They've probably got enough room for us to move in completely, and they've probably all got their own specialties with different gear for each. Guess we'll just have to meet 'em all if you wanna see all the different weapons," she teases.
"Yes you are, sis." She laughs, shaking her head. "You just haven't had any new friends who have weapons to obsess over."
The girls joke and banter as they wait, then load into the rideshare and get on their way. It's not long before they're getting into the right area.
It's a nice neighborhood, full of midrises and busy shopping streets, with taller apartment buildings spilling out around the edges. It's not the corest part of the city, but it's still close enough to be an easy subway ride to most anywhere you'd want to go, by the looks of it.
The compound itself looks a bit like the sort of thing you'd find in a university campus, a long building of concrete and glass several stories tall. A grey stone path goes from the sidewalk to the front gates. A bright orange torii stands proud part of the way along the path, and two stone statues of foxes sit aside the doors, looking curiously down the path.
Looks like you're just about there! I'll meet you at the parking lot and help you get settled in, make sure the wards don't bother you and all that.
She pops out of the doors, waving with a little smile, and walks over to their car.
Dawn grins and hops out, waving as she pulls a bag out of the trunk. "Good t'see ya, Romana!"
She smiles lightly, and waves back softly.
"Glad I already merit such a warm welcome."
And soon enough they've got all the bags out, and the Summers girls look to Romana.
"Lead the way!"
She provides a nice little baggage cart for them, the gleaming steel frame appearing in a gentle glow of light.
"But first..."
She opens her hand, and two heavily stylized fox pins appear in them.
She steps over a little carefully over to Dawn, takes a moment to make sure that she's got the right one and isn't rushing.
"These will help identify you to the wards, until we figure something more permanent out."
She smooths her hand along her shoulder gently, then carefully slips the pin on.
The pin features an orange fox with golden gilding. It wears an a challenging grin, leaning forward with an anticipatory glint in its violet eyes. Three tails curl around its body, with the leftmost tail enwrapped with an emerald green stem blooming out to a ripe red rose.
"And for you..."
She takes her top in her fingers, looking down at her with a delicate little smile, and pinches it back enough to clean press in the pin.
Zoey's pin features her own orange fox outlined in scarlet red. It preens up curiously, posed as if ready to pounce into play. A stem slides up past one of its tails up into the foxes line of sight to form a golden rose that glimmers brilliantly in the sunlight.
"Oh wow yeah! That's so coooool."
She bounces on the balls of her feet a bit, excited.
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