<div class="floatleft">(http://i1087.photobucket.com/albums/j480/Erion2451/986826-bigthumbnail_zpsbc53c8f6.jpg)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Gwen Albion<br/><strong>Team:</strong>Ghast<br/><strong>Location:</strong>On the way to history class, arriving at the room.<br/><strong>Tags:</strong>Members of Ghast, All<br/><hr/><br/><strong>"Ten years..."</strong>Gwen agreed before laughing lightly.<strong>"That's not how I recall it,"</strong>Gwen commented pleasantly.<br/><br/>Rai had always been committed to training, even back then.  She never realized that when she'd ask him to train with her he thought she was asking him to play.  It didn't matter.  It was all so long ago, another lifetime.  Rai would soon find out that her concept of training was far from children playing.<br/><br/><strong>"You didn't relocate to Eis.  Where'd you end up?"</strong>Gwen asked curiously.<br/><br/>A smile was given to Ruby when the girl turned to look at Gwen and Rai.<br/><br/>"Dirge wasn't pretty...was it?"<br/><br/>Gwen kept her smile fixed even as she tried to figure out what the girl had meant.  Was she actually talking about their home or was she talking about what had happened to their home.  Gwen decided to believe it was the latter and that Ruby wasn't trying to be insensitive or trying to start problems.  It was likely their teammate had no idea what she was saying.<br/><br/><strong>"It was pretty enough,"</strong>Gwen replied.<br/><br/>Involuntarily, her eyes moved to the back of Erik's head.  She wanted to see how their appointed leader was going to handle things, if he actually handled anything.  He'd had ten years to change, as well.  It was possible that he could surprise her, but she wasn't counting on it.<br/><br/>Deciding to not make anything of the interruption, Gwen smiled at her masked teammate.<strong>"It's good to see you too.  I always thought that you'd make it here.  Should be fun to be on the same team."</strong>She hoped.<br/><br/>Gwen didn't go to their rooms before the first period class.  It didn't seem like there was enough time and she wasn't willing to risk being tardy.  She wasn't sure how things worked at Avalanche, but tardiness was taken seriously at Spiral.  Despite not wanting to get on the History professor's bad side, the class was boring.  They'd been tested upon their knowledge of world history, and had obviously done well enough to gain entrance to the school; so what was the point of making them sit through a boring subject?  She'd taken a seat behind Erik, mostly due to not wanting to sit by him, but, at the same time, feeling obligated to sit near her team.  She didn't fall asleep during class, though was tempted.  Instead, she ended up drawing on the pad she'd planned to take notes upon.<br/><br/>When the class was dismissed, she gathered her things and made her way to the team's room.  It was much larger than she'd expected.  She was actually surprised at all the space and that they had their own kitchenette.  Seeing that Ruby had already claimed a bed, Gwen claimed the bed on the same side of the room, effectively separating the room by gender.  She unpacked her single bag, stowed her equipment inside a locker, and placed her clothing in the nightstand near her bed.  She then collected her uniform and disappeared into the bathroom to change, taking only a few minutes.<br/><br/>She disliked wearing a uniform, she hated sacrificing her individuality, but accepted that it was one of the costs to attending Avalanche Academy.  The only item she continued to wear from earlier, that remotely distinguished her, was her ivory headband.  She didn't believe that the mandated blouse, sweater vest, or skirt did anything to highlight her attributes and thought the white stockings she wore simply kept her legs warm.<br/><br/>She momentarily wondered if an outsider would be comfortable in the temperatures Eis natives lived.  Supposedly, temperatures were much warmer in other parts of the world, with some areas reaching temperatures which routinely doubled Eis' warmest days.  While Gwen would like to, one day, visit other lands, she thought that somewhere so warm had to be miserably uncomfortable.<br/><br/>It was likely that her teammates, the ones who had decided to come to the room, had found their way by the time Gwen had changed and exited the bathroom, even if she hadn't taken very long.<br/><br/>While not completely ignoring Erik, she'd made eye contact and nodded with a smile that said "I'm not happy but I'll make the best of the situation", she didn't visibly go out of her way to talk to him or smooth things over.  Instead she turned her attention to the one person she didn't know.<br/><br/><strong>"Hi, Ruby.  I'm Gwen.  It's nice to meet you.  You're not from Eis, are you?"</strong>There was no accusation in her voice, just a simple statement of fact.  Gwen doubted anyone from Eis would've said what Ruby had said about Dirge.<strong>"I like your gauntlets, and you fought really well yesterday.  It looked like you were trying to do some repairs on one of them last night.  I've got tools you can use if you're missing something you need."</strong>