Platypus
The king of wishful thinking
It had been an unseasonably hot week, with weathermen across every news network battling for viewers’ attention with speculation as to whether or not the heat-wave would break the currently standing record, or turning a simple forecast into spectacle with blatant gimmicks that did little to inform the actual viewer. Channel 5 tried to fry an egg on the sidewalk, and didn’t get very far into their experiment before learning that crows don’t care much whether a news crew is filming or the quality of any scraps of food left on the street. Channel 8 ran a fluff piece about the top ten ways the Top 10 hero’s like to keep cool. Channel 11 probably got the best segment, when they tried to interview passerby on the street about the weather, and one particularly disgruntled gentlemen used some kind of acid-quirk to melt the microphone. Puns about ‘Things are heating up’ and people are ‘boiling mad’ were shared to the polite chuckle of the news anchors.
Thankfully, the previous evening had brought some much needed rain down onto the city, knocking about ten degrees from the thermometers and twice that many points off of the humidity, reducing the later summer swelter to something that could almost be called tolerable, so long as you didn’t stay in direct sunlight for to long at a stretch.
With puddles that'd yet to evaporate still clinging to the cobblestones at the front entrance of the school., the new students began to arrive. First a trickle, mostly the applicants who came from abroad and had transferred in, with a steadily growing stream of teens passing through the gateway and onto the school grounds proper. By 10 Am, the mass of crowds had grown to sufficient mass that it was standing room only on the marked pathway up to the front Entrance. Volunteers, mostly third year students, directed the traffic as best they could, keeping the lines moving and the crowds docile. One in particular, a black-haired girl of average height and heavy-set build, was carrying water-bottles through the crowds and making sure nobody got dehydrated. The edge might have been dulled, but it’s hard to find comfort in that when packed tight alongside three hundred other future heroes, fidgeting with nervous excitement. The conversation flowed through the mass, repeating the same four or five thoughts with slight variations, mostly friendly chatter or impatient complaints
Thankfully, the previous evening had brought some much needed rain down onto the city, knocking about ten degrees from the thermometers and twice that many points off of the humidity, reducing the later summer swelter to something that could almost be called tolerable, so long as you didn’t stay in direct sunlight for to long at a stretch.
With puddles that'd yet to evaporate still clinging to the cobblestones at the front entrance of the school., the new students began to arrive. First a trickle, mostly the applicants who came from abroad and had transferred in, with a steadily growing stream of teens passing through the gateway and onto the school grounds proper. By 10 Am, the mass of crowds had grown to sufficient mass that it was standing room only on the marked pathway up to the front Entrance. Volunteers, mostly third year students, directed the traffic as best they could, keeping the lines moving and the crowds docile. One in particular, a black-haired girl of average height and heavy-set build, was carrying water-bottles through the crowds and making sure nobody got dehydrated. The edge might have been dulled, but it’s hard to find comfort in that when packed tight alongside three hundred other future heroes, fidgeting with nervous excitement. The conversation flowed through the mass, repeating the same four or five thoughts with slight variations, mostly friendly chatter or impatient complaints