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Interview 1 - Thomasin Farros by Radio414

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Diana chewed the inside of her cheek as the day's task was being explained to the class. She dreamed of being a hero of justice, not a hero of garbage duty. Of course, as the hero they were visiting explained, there wasn't anyone else to help out here. I guess nature needs a hero, too. While the trip was far from what most of the students expected for the day, Diana felt a wave of relief. She wasn't quite comfortable showing that much skin. And so, despite her inner protestations and desire to train in more traditional heroics, she pushed herself forward. "<A job is a job.> Let's get to work!" Though she made no mention of it, she breathed a sigh of relief (followed by a small gag on the putrid air) that the chainsaw arms guy – Yokuna was his name – would be working separately from the main group. With that major stressor out of the way, she looked down to the beach to see what she could do. Of course, as a girl capable of lifting several times her own weight, that was quite a lot more than most of the students present. It wasn't long before she was in the middle of everything, dragging, lifting, and tossing items most of the class could only dream of making budge. All the while, she glanced toward the perimeter of the beach, watching out for the man Takehiko had warned her about. Not one to let herself be outdone, she pushed her own physical limits, tossing giant truck tires as if they were nothing more than inner tubes, quickly loading the back of Sun's truck from a good distance away. With a bit of direction from Anemonesan, Diana heaved an entire broken-down refrigerator onto her back, carrying it up to the parking lot so that it could be hauled away at another time. Even though it wasn't what she had been hoping to do that day, Diana found a lot of satisfaction in the visible progress her class was making on the beach. She became so caught up in her work that she didn't see Yokuna Yasha running quickly to go right past her, barely catching him out of the corner of her eye as his arm brushed against her own. "<OHGODHOLYSHITWHATTHEFUCK!!???>" In a panic, she made to pivot on her left foot, but found it to be entangled in a half-buried fishing net that she hadn't noticed until that point. Just like that, Diana found herself falling face-first down toward the sand. Luckily, someone else noticed her plight, and caught her by her left hand. Hanging downward with her body at scarcely a thirty degree angle to the ground, she looked up to see who had stopped her fall. Looking back down at her was Sogin Hakaro, wearing his typically sour expression. Diana's eyes darted back and forth between his face and his hand holding her own, feeling her skin heat up as she turned beet red. "Be careful, you could get tetanus or something. Now lift yourself up, you're heavier than you look." Of course, the words he spoke barely made any sense to Diana. She found herself so nervous in that second that she had practically forgotten how to speak Japanese, let alone even hear him clearly over the sound of her heart about to beat out of her chest. "<W-wait, wait I'm sorry I I'm so clumsy I didn't see the net and I got startled and>" her sentence was cut off as her hand slipped out of his, dropping her down onto the sand. "Oops." "H-hey! There's like twelve of them over there he can get one of them to help! We're supposed to deal with this!" Rei shouted after Yasha and muttered "Idiot." under her breath as she reluctantly started to turn back to her assigned task. However, before she could move an inch, she felt a strong grasp grab onto one of her arms, pulling it behind her back and stressing the joint, as another hand grabbed onto the back of her head at the very base of her skull. She felt a chill run all the way down her spine, like a shock of electricity, as her assailant, a girl a few inches taller than Rei herself, leaned in to whisper in her ear, "Don't scream or I'll break your neck, and that will ruin both of our days."

About what I expected, though some of the analogy questions kind of threw me. Like, the ruler/scribble dichotomy I get, I guess, but fortune cookie or birthday cake? Is that like a "message on the inside or outside" sort of thing? I just went with birthday cake because they taste better.