“Glad to meet you too,” Beth told Mira. “It’s good to come into this with experience on larger mechs—I had all of a month between my last high school match in a three meter MW and my first prelim. I was so unused to the size difference I was still afraid I was going to step on some poor tech every time I had to walk out of the hangar.”<br/><br/>She laughed slightly. “For that matter, your first registration day looks to be going better than mine—security mistook me for some fangirl who snuck in, and they tried to escort me off the premises.” That had been eight years ago, she realized.<em>Can’t believe I’ve been at this for a third of my life.</em><br/><br/>“So, what’s your favorite match type? The large scale battles, the one-on-one duels, fighting to hold objectives...?”