[Voice, locked to residents] --EMERGENCY--EMERGENCY--EMERGENCY--EMERGENCY--

[malnosso]

[At 2:15AM, the journals suddenly blare out an alarm, followed by this message.]

EMERGENCY. EMERGENCY. This is an emergency.

The following occupants of the Luceti enclosure must report to the teleporters in twenty minutes. You are required as reinforcements in Region 13. Bring all necessary armaments with you. You will be teleported directly into combat.

Anyone who fails to comply will be forcibly escorted to the teleporters by droids.

This is not a drill. I repeat: this is not a drill. You have twenty minutes.

[The message repeats twice more, the alarm continuing until the twenty minutes has elapsed. No questions will be answered.]

Comments

[screw_fate]

[That the feelings were entirely false is a relif; Neji looks at her and remembers the various emotions he went through, but they're all at a distance. It wasn't him. Or her, for that matter.]

As ready as I can be, I suppose. [He shrugs slightly.] And you?

[fashionably_strong]

[Bulla can see why her Luceti Valley self would have been attracted to him. He's composed in the face of impending danger, and she knows that Lee is his teammate from back home. So the athleticism is genuine, too. She can understand it, but no longer feels it.]

I'm ready to punch some Third Party cultists in the face for making it necessary for the Malnosso to wake us up and give us no notice whatsoever for this Draft.

[She holds up her arms, clad in the gauntlets that Adela made her with the royal crest in navy blue on the back of the hands.]

I'm going to punch them with these.

[screw_fate]

An excellent punishment, I think. [He's got a small, amused smile, seeing that.] I'm afraid I look rather less threatening, but I think they'll feel our Gentle Fist technique is rather misnamed. [He won't be gentle at all. Not after this.]

Is that Adela's work? [He's seen what she can do before, after all.]

[fashionably_strong]

Yes it is. She made them for me in exchange for me doing some clothing alterations for her to accommodate her wings. I also helped her pick out a few things for a starter wardrobe.

[Including a coat, a couple of sweaters, leggings and pants. Of all the the things that were fake about Luceti Valley, her interest in fashion wasn't one of them.

She blinks at the name of the technique.]

How does Gentle Fist work, if you don't mind me asking?

[screw_fate]

I don't mind giving you the basics, at least. It directly damages internal organs, nerves, and energy pathways without external damage -- hence the name. Rather than a hard punch, a very precise pressure-point strike. Done perfectly, the target doesn't even bruise.

[Their heart just bursts. Very gentle, that.]

I'm considered to be quite proficient at it. [And humble, obviously.]

[fashionably_strong]

Wow. That's quite a dangerous fighting style. Sounds like something that people would underestimate until they got seriously hurt.

[It's kind of scary, really, but also impressive.]