<hr/><div class="floatleft">(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/b9/ee/15/b9ee15278adf800ca1317af33c3ecc63.jpg)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Gabriel Summers<br/><strong>Location:</strong>His Dorm<br/><strong>Date/Time:</strong>9-2-17 | 5:40pm<br/><strong>Tagging:</strong>Salem<br/><strong>Content:</strong>Gabriel is hopefully making a new friend. And trying to shake this nagging sensation in the back of his skull about Salem.<br/><hr/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: georgia;">  When she didn't move to enter his room, he took a step back and waved her in. It was strange the furniture here didn't hover, or have morphic capabilities. But it was <em>rustic</em>; yes, that was the word. He offered her a seat on a comfy chair he'd bought. Turns out the exchange rate for Shi'ar gold was pretty good. She introduced herself as Salem. That was a warm name. He liked it.<br/><br/> "Hi, Salem Suuuh-Uhm," he said with 100% authenticity. He did find it strange that her last name was more like what he'd hear in the Capital City than here on Earth though. "I hope we can be friends. Did I say that right? The professor said I should <em>lead</em> with that sometimes." At least he did his air quotes right this time. When she told him she wasn't a psychic, he breathed a sigh of relief. His first night here he'd had a nightmare, and the poor boy next to him woke up screaming with a bloody nose.<br/><br/> By the time they got to him he was having a seizure. It turned out the intensity of Gabriel's subconscious had been too much trauma for the young man's mind to take all at once. They had to move him to a different part of the school for his own good. He canted his head to the side while she explained a bit about what she could do, and about the "Ruby Quartz" that apparently kept her lasers from getting out. "That is so...what's the word you guys use? Cold? Cool! That's it. So cool." He held up his hand and focused, causing a thing golden beam to extend from each of his fingertips.<br/><br/> They all met directly over the center of his palm, and grew into a spinning orb. "I've got energy powers too. Hey, maybe we can train together sometime? I really wanna see you blast something now!" She explained she'd just come by to say hello, and told him she was an RA? His hand raised slightly, then lowered when she detailed what an RA was. "Thanks for the explanation. We don't have RA's where I'm from. Or...maybe we do? I didn't go to school; I only had private tutors and trainers. The only time I even got to see other people my age was during the trials, or the pit fights, or the gladiator arena. Or in the celebration chamber when we won. Once the Praetor himself even gave me advice. I wonder if he was like an RA?"<br/><br/> All of that was said with neutrality and calm, as if he was discussing the most normal thing in the world and not the modernized version of a slave escaping to freedom. Apparently her favorite part about the job was helping other students, and she liked it so much she'd leaned in to tell him. So with a smile he leaned in to listen. It was fun to joke about secrets and whispering. They could lead to severe punishment and death back home. She asked him if he needed anything, causing him to shrug. Especially when she asked if he had any questions. Boy that was a flood gate Salem may not have wanted open.<br/><br/> "I've actually got <em>so many</em> questions about this place. The Professor is so busy that I can't waste his time and just pester him all day, but there's so much I don't understand. How is it you have no Majestor or Majestrix? Instead each quadrant of this planet seems to have some sort of lower ranking leader. Presidents. Dictators. Despots? Wouldn't it be easier to have one supreme ruler, who then chose subordinates to run the day to day operations of his empire? All these different <em>countries?</em> and <em>nations</em> seem so chaotic." <br/><br/>For a moment, he'd let his mind get away from him, so he reigned it in. "Sorry. Just being here is kind of a huuuuuge culture shift for me. Still trying to wrap my head around actually being <em>here</em> on Earth. Ummmm, can we do the tour? I've kinda just been flying around to whatever interests me. I haven't really gotten the chance to figure out what and where everything is," he finished with a light huff and a rub of the back of his head.<br/><br/></span><br/>