[It's a beautiful, sunny day outside! Maria is wearing her blue spring dress, holding a large butterfly net, chasing the bugs near the water, with her book bag full of textbooks and homework leaning against the nearby tree. She really should be studying right now, but she's more interested in capturing and studying the bugs outside Garden. Already ( Read more... )

[There seems to be a festive atmosphere all throughout Garden. Why? Because it's the Homecoming Carnival! The Garden Festival Committee has been hard at work all morning and when 1300 hours strikes, it's finally open for everyone to enjoy.

There's a map on the Directory which shows where everything is located:

( MAP )

[well...this situation is very much different. She's not on the space station. Shadow isn't here. She's without Grandpa and the other scientists. She's also now enrolled in a military academy and asked to help fight a dangerous war.

Is this the excitement she's been looking for?]

Better to not look a gift horse in the mouth...

[Fresh from her ( Read more... )

( Move over, Chessy! )

Does anyone know a good place to pick up clothes? I've seen so many different kinds with everyone here, and I'd like to get something new too. I haven't been out of Garden much because of my medication, so I'd appreciate any help.

[Laying back on a sunny patch of grass, looking up at the sky. He chose this area because it was quiet. The quad is too noisy for quiet reflection.]

The Time Compression has a sick sense of humor...

[Looks over to a few flowers swaying in the wind, thinking back on her death. Yes, definitely grateful she's alive. She can see the world he's trying ( Read more... )

[Maria isn't much for fighting -- or really, any kind of violence. That she's actually in the training center, then, might come as a surprise to those who know her. But she isn't here to, well, train, oh no ( Read more... )

[There's a teenage boy glaring at a piece of paper in his hand, yelling indignantly at it.]

Time travel again?! Geez, at this rate, it's almost every other month! This is really getting on my nerves.

[At some point during his rant, he starts darting about the area, trying to familiarize himself with the place. Except he decides to ignore the ( Read more... )

[One may or may not notice a dark figure standing under a tree, watching other mill about to their classes. The population of cadets have nearly doubled, and the percentage of SeeD and instructors has also grown at a rate he hasn't seen in a while. Shadow's reappearance will certainly cause a stir ( Read more... )

[For anyone perceptive enough to notice--or just anyone who happened to be out and about really, the sight a new arrival decked out in some high-tech toaster on his face visor-like mask is probably something that would have caught their attention ( Read more... )