The sudden buzzing of Ms. Cho's blackberry startled her concentration, setting down everything else in her hands to turn her attention to the text message she'd been given.  A concerned frown creased its way over her lips as she sent a reply, and it rapidly evaporated into a smile for each of the two skimmers.  "Good news," she told them.  "Looks like you're going to be assigned to Crucible 107."  Like checks, there were no crucibles with any numbers earlier than 101.<br/><br/>One of the receptionists sent out a request over the public address system.  "Delilah de Winter, Riley Nelson, please report to the Skimmer section of the Nursery."  Nina Cho paused just long enough to allow the message to be sent over.<br/><br/>"One thing my supervisor has asked me to do is discuss the inherent nature of Skimmers with the two of you as compared to the other projectors and post-life entities."  She looked a bit saddened, or perhaps indignant, as if she went that it was a waste of her time or an insult to have to go over this information with you.  "I know that the two of you won't be like this, but some of the Skimmers which have joined into crucibles in the past have been slightly...problematic.  Traditionally, the task calls to Skimmers to make sure that the entire crucible is sufficiently saturated with Vitality at the beginning of a mission, but a few of the agents have been more stingy.  Instead, they've been trying to hog the Vitality in exchange for 'favors,' which also means that they don't have enough by the end of a mission and have to try to duck out early."<br/><br/>Her entire demeanor said that she knew that neither Gary nor Si-donie would act this way.  "Just one of those things where I'm supposed to give the talk.  Both of you have shown a strong degree of dedication and I know you'll make good team players.  It'll take two weeks of getting used to each other before you can properly share Vitality with the others, while you adjust to each other and such, but that's why you won't be given any missions until such is the case."