TF Chapter 4 Changes

"I thought we could at least collect another, after all, the limit is 5..." 

AI had asked the right question, successfully managing to move my attention away from Danny boy's puzzle, a puzzle that I had to solve sometime, since we were going to be together for five years.

"We three will be enough!" He answered with a burning flame within those gorgeous blue eyes of his.

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Time passed and we streamed out of the cathedral-like construction. The only time it was open to us was during orientation, and when we became forgers. 

As I walked outside, I pondered about what kind of secrets that might exist within, secrets that were only privy to forgers?

"Aren't you going to introduce yourself?" 

That woman! Hasn't Danny told her that I like being a loner?!

"Nathaniel Bosingwa."

I hope that keeps her full for the next hour or so...

"...am Kim Bora."

"Miss Kim...I will presume you are still single...anyway, what I love the most is being left alone so that my mind can ponder upon the mysteries of the universe...do you understand?"

There! I told her to buzz off as gently as I could right?

"Bwahahahahahaha..."

Her loud laughter was what entered my ears, causing me to look quizzically at my side. Even Danny boy was clutching his stomach, a genuige burst of laughter spewing out of his mouth.

Ah! Now I understand, it came off as a joke.

I sped up, wanting to leave the two behind, more like trying to hide my embarrassment. I had just used cliche lines to try and get her off me, but instead, I...

I really wanted to bang my head on a wall somewhere and die!

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The gigantic city wall, spotting a reddish hue from a combination of the dirt used to construct it and the light from above, at the edge of my vision enclosed everything inside in a circular ring. This circular city was further demarcated into the four skies, whose four corners met up at the building in the center.

I, and the rest of our cohort, had been assigned to the Okweruka( Clear of rain) sky. It was the one on the left when I had just made it into this city. The Sky had been designated its name by the same person that had named this city, with the words in my native tongue, not mine exactly...anyway, the good thing was that we had been handed plaques with numbers to the stone constructions populating the quadrant, with one for each team.

The three of us now stood before the crude building, wondering how and what we were going to be doing here. Danny boy had said that the previous years studied and slept inside these, but our year was definitely something of a new thing...so, we were all clueless about what was going to happen.

The grey stone looked as if it had been baked for eons in hot magma, before being taken out and used on this...thing. That's all I could say, as I couldn't catch any glimpse at a design aesthetic. 

Were they in a hurry? Or could it be that they had been barbarians with a lack of knowledge?

It was worth pondering deeply...a civilisation capable of creating the forging way of strengthening one's mind, should have been highly developed, so why did this seem like a degradation instead? Not to mention, how the hell did they get a continent on the SUN!...and a million other questions.

I should focus, becoming a forger is what I should really be paying attention to.

Pah!

A clap attracted my attention, with someone having appeared right at the doorway of the crude building while I had been distracted.

It was a woman, that much could be gleaned from just her facial features. Her hair was a black bob style that gave the feeling that she was a tomboy, though, I suspected that to be true...I hope this stays in my thoughts cause she's a forger...I wouldn't want to be killed!

She was shorter than the three of us, yet there was this bubbliness and vibrancy radiating from her form such that she gave the feeling of being larger than life. The grin on her little face already conveyed carefree feelings...or could it be that she just had a massive ego?

I took a step, seeing as the others appeared to have frozen, breaking the spell and causing them to trail a bit behind.

"Your mind appears to be stronger than these two it seems." She nodded sagely with a serious expression.

My mind was a bit stronger? Now, that was new.

"I am going to be your instructor this year going forward. You can refer to me by Celeste."

Celeste...it was definitely a name worth remembering. I stepped off the stone arch with the others, the previously unfelt heat assaulting our bodies, causing me to sigh in amazement. The stone arch...was marvellous! The moment you stepped upon it, any fluctuations in temperature stopped, causing a more normal human temperature range! Truly mysterious!

"So, miss Celeste, what will we be learning?" Bora asked. I had decided to do away with the 'AI' designation, since her name was somehow more apt...mmmm...I wonder...why...

The question was important as having assigned teams had already been an unprecedented development which had thrown all the knowledge that Danny boy had fed me out the window.

Standing before the woman, though, really exposed the glaring height difference, with Danny boy being just half a head taller than her. A strange thought came into my mind at this time, didn't it look like three bullies attempting some sort of action on a scrawny human?

"Follow me, I doubt your fancy nano suits can afford to handle the elevated temperature." She led the way into the dark depths of the crude stone building.

"Shit!" I cursed, hurriedly following her. The nanites at some points in my suit were already giving warning signs! I had momentarily forgotten that my suit was cheap! 

Once again, coldness found a way to me even through the nano suit the moment I stepped into the stone house. It seemed that the same principles as those on the stone bridge worked here. It also seems that even expensive suits couldn't last long near the molten streams, judging by the relieved looks of my companions.

My Jjaja(grandparent) was a very nice man. He used to take us deep within his lands where we would camp for the night. My greatest moment was staring into those warm dancing flames and letting my mind wonder. I was now getting that same feeling as I gazed at the stream of molten metal coming out one end of the hole in the wall, flowing into a bowl-like stone construction before making it out and continuing on into a hole opposite. This molten stream was the only source of light within this room, dimly illuminating the dull grey walls.

My chest swelled with an unknown feeling upon getting hit by that bout of nostalgia, but I put it aside to listen to what the petit woman was going to speak about.

NB; the nano suit covers even the head, and every single strand of hair, just that its transparent.