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SARONA GAYLE
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STATUS: Student, age 16, 11th Grade

ACCOLADES: Honors Society, Advanced Runic Courses, Fluent in English, French, and Japanese, member of Global Betterment of Society Coalition, can inscribe the primary Inscriptions with eyes closed

BIO: I'm good at what I do and want to learn how to be even better. Knowledge is never a crutch, only a pathway to improve one's self. If you don't believe in hard work, you're not worth my time. I only intend to leave the world after doing something worthwhile with my life. Will you? Also enjoy running, gardening, and hobby golem-making.

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[yokeye]

[He smiles genuinely; things aren't as hard to get back to as he thought they might be, in some respects.]

If you wouldn't mind, that would be great! Oh! I learned English, or a lot of it, while I was gone and I've been keeping up with it, so like you can recommend English books too!

[inkedspell]

Works for me. My knowledge of Japanese rune literature is a lot less than my English and Nordic translated texts, anyway.

[She goes over to her desk and starts jotting down a quick list on a sheet of paper in one of her many notebooks. She keeps talking as she writes.]

Anything else you have planned for the rest of vacation? Or wherever you can ditch the babysitter?

[yokeye]

No, I don't have any plans... Not immediate ones.

[Because he doesn't know how far they'll let him go, and when, or if, he'll stop being watched constantly.]

I have something I want to do, but it might have to wait.

[There's a roughness in his voice at that, a determination.]

[inkedspell]

[She doesn't know whether to be glad he sounds like he has something to focus on or worry what kind of thing that is.]

Anything I'd want in on? [Because of course she needs more things to do.]

[yokeye]

[Toki glances at the door; he doesn't think the guard would be listening to their conversation, but he lowers his voice anyway.]

I don't know... Have you ever killed a daemon?

[inkedspell]

[Oh. Well... She replies back in an equally low tone.]

I've had a run in or two back home, when daemons were causing problems and people thought they were originally natural disasters, but most of my daemon fights are lower level ones they give us on missions here. Just how big deal a daemon are we talking here?

[yokeye]

[That's not a lot of experience, but it's more than he has.]

I don't know, really. I figure he can't be like a really powerful one or he wouldn't have picked me, right? I was a very easy target, convenient. I plan on talking to him first if I can find him, and trying to dissolve the contract that way, but, I mean, is that really a possibility? So, I have to have a backup plan, right? Kill him. Only... I mean, I'm willing to, if it comes to that...

[inkedspell]

[That's a bit heavier than she expected, but then she gets why he would want this. But then there's the question...]

Are you sure killing him will solve the problem? Some daemons do poison pill contracts.

[yokeye]

A poison-

[He puts his hands up in a "stop" gesture, but it's for himself and not her. Don't panic.]

Okay, wait. First, I should say that like killing this daemon is Plan C. I'm working on Plan A, but if that doesn't work, talking to the daemon is Plan B; which I did discuss with Professor Atchison, kind of, and he said I had a good chance of like out-talking the daemon or something, but he may have been sarcastic or joking. I can never tell with him. Anyway, and I don't remember if he actually said that killing the daemon would break the contract, and he probably didn't, like we may not have even discussed that part, I don't know... Anyway! Where was I? Uhh... It's Plan C! But that wasn't what I wanted to say... Oh! What's a poison pill contract?