"And this is a bunker into which members of the resistance hid during the Turian occupation. You see the signs, how they are scratched? It means that turians chased them from here to use the building for themselves at some point..."
Jane was only half listening. Yeah, of course, visiting Shanxi and stuff was good, but she had expected more tales of great battles and more raptor-like monsters with big ass rifles.
She supressed a giggle. She had said "ass" in her head. It was funny.
The bunker was old and dusty and grey. The other kids were looking at least as bored as she was herself. They all wanted to see turians, the big bad guys as they heard during their history lesson. Jane had missed it. She had just been tranfered to this school along with her mom when she changed ship. However, she knew about First Contact war. You can't be a spacer kid and not know about First Contact war, seriously! Even if you're six and you're a little girl.
Jane extended her right arm and let the group skitter along as she let her hand touch the wall and draw waves as she passed by. She liked the turian insignas over scratched human graffiti. They looked good together. Like the weird art that her mom's colleague loved, full of colour and... And weird stuff that made her insides wobbly when she looked at it.
She didn't let the group out of her sight. She didn't need to get lost or worst, get scolded for staying behind. This was her first week in this school!
Jane's hand passed over an insignia on the wall, one that was blue and looked like a river. It made a clicking noise when she touched it. It intrigued her, so she came closer to the wall. It was a small cache. A little omni-tool ring was in it. Jane hesitated.
The guide had said not to touch anything, because there may be dangerous things. But this wasn't dangerous, it was a stupid omni-tool ring... Hidden.
Jane took a deep breath and put her hand in the cache. She didn't realise that she had closed her eyes and ran until she was back to the peloton of six years old guided by the History teacher and the guide. The little ring felt so heavy in her pocket that she was scared that it might tear a hole through her pants.
"Are you okay, Jane-kun?" Kinomoto-san asked.
Jane took a deep breath, at last and answered as fast as she could :
"I was a bit behind, I was scared that I would get lost so I ran to you..."
"Well, you're here, that means that you weren't that far away." Kinomoto-san said with a reassuring tone. "Now come, the visit is almost over."
Jane felt a bit guilty, lying to Kinomoto-sensei. She was so nice and made her possible to allow Jane to come visit the New Lu'an war memorial, even though she had come late to the school. Should she give her the omni-tool ring so she could have it examined? Maybe it was indeed dangerous?
Jane decided to keep it.
When later this day, she went back home, she kissed her mom on her cheek, let herself be helped for her spelling exercises and retreated to her room.
This omni-tool ring was hers. And she was going to use it.