Volcanoes continued to spew their contents. In the case of the Russian volcanoes, this was a slow seepage. In some cases, it was more violent. Such as Mount Fuji.
Drifting out to sea, Akane watched with big eyes as the smoke and fiery look abruptly cut off at Mount Fuji. "That's weird."
The smoke and steam from Fuji began to billow away, and when it did Akane noticed that it looked different. Not just from the angle. It looked... smaller. In fact, realized Akane, it was looking smaller as she watched.
"I've got a bad feeling about this," noted Akane to herself as absolutely no one else was even visible to her at the moment.
Tatewaki Kuno, the Blue Thunder Of Furinkan High, stood proudly at the bow of his ship as it cut through the waves. He'd heard that the fair Akane Tendo had gone with her friends to seek safety at Mount Fuji and had discovered that public transportation had become hopelessly snarled in the hours leading up to impact.
Yet what was a Kuno but resourceful? He hadn't been able to go directly to the mountain, nor (despite effort and several phone calls) had he been able to get the mountain to come to him, yet he HAD been able to go to a port and begin the laborious process of sailing the Sea Dragon IV to the area.
He'd overheard on the radio how much of the devastation he had avoided. He'd then heard a lot of silence which indicated that something untoward had happened to every radio station on the dial. .Which simply meant that the gods had chosen to favor him, as he'd always known they would.
Sadly, he'd been delayed time and time again by having to detour around major accumulations of items floating in the water. It would not do at all to have Sea Dragon IV end up as wrecked as Sea Dragon I-III.
Maki Sonomura ran one hand through her short hair and considered her workload.
Most likely she'd have her hands full through the rest of her natural life. She had trained as a psychiatrist's assistant. Her experiences had allowed her to determine from watching who was a Persona user. Now she was discovering that there were other types of psychics and mages and such, and Habitat 4 was where they had gathered.
She also knew that the other Habitats had their own 'special groups' - and understood the reasoning behind placing those names on the lists to be placed within Habitats. People with unusual abilities and talents were not only more likely to be able to survive themselves, any such talents they were able to pass on genetically would benefit the surviving genepool.
She understood all that. She even understood that she would eventually use the online courses available through the computers here to become a full psychiatrist herself. She understood that this situation was one which would and did need her services.
After all, there was over a thousand people here. Cut off from their pasts, having to survive while a world died around them, facing entirely new lives with new responsibilities.
Oh yes, she had her work cut out for her.
(Posted Sun, 27 Dec 2009 17:51)
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