S1, 02 The First Sway (January 7, 2015)

An isle of Toliv, the site of a newly established Aurellian base, was where the inter-planetary transport was to land her. She planed to take basic military training at this base, and later, strive to become a more sophisticated fighter in a star system plagued by war. However, her first objective remained, to restore dignity to her family name and to remove the oppression against it.

"*Although one can plan with confidence,*
\_\_she should be mindful of life's sudden sway.*"*

January 4th: She arrives on Toliv, finds lodging at the spaceport, and familiarizes herself with the island.

January 5th: Meditates on the idea of finding her future, spends the day resting in preparation for a long adventure.

January 6th: Her future abruptly finds her when local authorities conscript her into the Aurellian Defence Forces. They assign her a new dormitory on-site at the training academy, supply her with proper learning materials, and inform her where classes will be held.

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Today is January 7th, a day even more hectic than the 6th.

In class...

Visibly upset about not having enlisted on the 5th.

She looks around to see if any others share similar shortcomings.

To her left she sees...

...This self envying character.

Classes with conscripted militants are usually filled with lowlives like these.

The eye of our protagonist catches something...

To her right.... Oh! What is it?

"Heyyyy...."

"Whatcha doin' tonight?"

"Our world is in turmoil and all you care about is what I'm doing tonight? Pathetic"!

"'Ay girl, why so serious? I'll catch up with ya afta' class".

Now, besides having very interesting interactions with fellow classmates, our protagonist had other things to attend to. The teacher assigned her to type out a report about logistics, instructing her to head down to the library for study resources.

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Now the concept of this so-called "library" evaded the minds of anyone born after 2068, this includes our protagonist. So she simply did what the teacher told her, she went down the elevator (not even knowing how far down, she just simply went down). There she found a door labeled "Information library"; since nobody stopped her, and since the door was unlocked, she walked right in!

"Written information stored on walls --this must be the library" she thought to herself.

"A book, entitled: 'Logistical coordination of Aurellian forces on Toliv' Pfft, I wonder what this book is about?!"

She began to scan the pages onto her datapad, which she was gifted by the academy.

"Hmm...This thing actually works pretty well" She said

"I'll study these back at the dormitory. Now it would be great it I could find a... umm... a...

umm..."

"Gehh..hheh...hehh..aah...w-w-who are you..."?

"No..." The tall, masked, shadowy figure said.

"Who are you that you have any business being here"?

His voice was dreadful, the sound which seemed of a demonic ghost from a recent past.

Taking the datapad away from her, and plugging many wires into it as if to extract the memory from it. He said:

"Your name is not hidden from me, the Imperium have many spies on this island who, like you, snoop around through classified information files that they know nothing of. Do not be caught like this again as some of them were..."

"Next time..."

"Don't freak out when you see me".

"Da heck just happened"?

" Yeah, okay! Just leave me here wondering!"!

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Back at the dormitory.

On the computer

"I'm guessing that wasn't the right kind of library. I'm lucky that thing gave me my datapad back, hopefully he doesn't come back and..."?

"Huh"?

"He didn't remove any of my book scannings from it"!

"Whoa, I remember him saying these documents were classified information... well..."

"He sure was right! These documents show the positioning and movements of Aurellian supplies and munitions throughout Toliv"!

"Now this doesn't make any sense to me, what was he even doing with my datapad. He couldn't possibly be an Aurellian, if he was, he would've stopped me".

"EVEN WHO WAS HE EVEN"?!

Suddenly...

"Knock knock! Heh heh heh!" An ominous voice from the door said.

"Your personal assassin is here"

Our protagonist nearly had a heart attack until...

"lol, jk. \*gasp\* Aww yeah! Ay girl! We is dormmates now!"

Then she had a heart attack.

Meanwhile, in an imperial command ship...

"Pfft, you just have to be SO barbaric don't you?! She prolly had a heart attack 'cause you scared 'er half to death! I simply do not understand your methods.".

"But still... I must commend your brilliance Xosepe".

BONUS:

The original main image.