That's good! Good magic.

Okay now he wants discs. Discs of light.

Flattened spheres. Take it or leave it.

"...I'm gonna start now." Chromadyne advances and starts throwing sweeping arm attacks aiming to get the disks to hit Kaede.

Yeah fine he'll take it. Kaede can if anything try to dodge all of the things and strike Chromadyne at the same time, ducking and weaving and rolling and getting hurt (ow) but yeah this is fun.

Chromadyne has an especially nasty surprise for him when she throws the light disk, misses... And then they return to her hands, scalding him from behind.

She's grinning again by the time she scores her three points though, and Kaede almost hit her once.

He's grinning, too. This was way more fun than he'd expected it to be!

Chromadyne gives him fighting tips and walks him through some useful moves!

Sooner or later, "Probably about time to cool down, go to the meet."

"Yeah, let's. We should do this more often."

"I might not get the chance to just chill like this that often. I'm usually pretty booked, patrolling or training."

"Oh well. I'll see if I can't catch you next time you're free, then. To the meet?"

They head to the meet.

It's in a big, fancy-looking, congressional-style tiered meeting room. There are hundreds of armchairs with desks arranged in circles in front of a podium area at the front.

Ooh cool. Is there a place for new people, how are people arranging themselves?

"If we were doing something more formal there'd be places for everyone and you would go to the back, but for now just sit wherever."

"Makes sense."

Wherever: meet Kaede's butt.

Chromadyne goes and sits next to her friend the transphobe with a "See you later."

Seats fill up rapidly - a man with green raiment and a sharp face decides to introduce himself. "You a new Bearer or from out of town?"

"New—just today, actually. Kaede."

"Ah. New." His friendliness closes up to polite indifference. "Well, good luck."

Huh.

"Thank you. It's going to be great."

"You officially registered and stuff, or just sort of hanging out today?"

"Registered. And I sparred a bit with Chromadyne, it was fun."

"Heh." He goes quiet, pulls out a paperback book.

And Kaede waits.