6/6/2010- Since this chapter is going to be rather long, I'm going to split it so that you guys have something to read while I finish the other half. When I get "Chapter 16" up, I will combine this chapter (Chapter 14) with its second half. So when you see "Chapter 15" about two weeks from now and think, Wasn't last week Chapter 15? that's what happened.
A note of slightly greater importance: Being as I have only ever watched the animes (both Index and Railgun) and read the manga, there is a lot that I don't know. One of these things was Musujime Awaki. When I started writing this fanfic I had bare minimal information on her. From her 2-second cameo in the anime I got her appearance (her hair seemed to be closer to brown because of the shadows) and she appeared to be a silent character. At the time her Wiki entry was minimal and the best I could gather was that she was a powerful teleporter whose powers had been capped by some tragic event in the past (said tragic event could also explain her muteness). Since then a lot more information has arisen, some of which invalidates parts that I have already written and some things that I had planned. Therefore, I feel it only responsible to state that this fanfic deviates from the canon a bit and that, given how far offbase I already am, will probably stray from it a little more as the story continues.
As a disclaimer, I obviously do not own any of the characters, the setting, the organizations, the mechanics, or anything else you can find in Kamachi-sensei's original works.
For your reference: Previously I had planned on weekly updates on Tuesday; until life straightens itself out I'm updating when possible (slightly less often than once a week). Occasionally, I may feel the need to explain something and will therefore place an asterisk at the end of the sentence and the corresponding note at the end of the chapter. For the most part I am separating these chapters by scene, so some will be rather short.