Akko felt the thundering fall after layers of darkness on top of the tree line and felt first the pain before the smell overwhelmed her.
The forest before her stunk of sickly sweet poison and the harsh sting of nature; it held no smell of another human being as if the place wasn't prone to wandering witches passing through.
A shiver tore through her veins as she dropped down from the tree and immediately felt soft fabric beneath her and smelled the much sweeter though equally deadly poisonous smell of the one beneath her.
She knew climbing off of her that the other girl was alive simply the strength of her scent and the warmth that was beneath her told her so; her body hadn't gone cold as of yet.
Still Akko felt nerves leak in and immediately whispered almost breathlessly, "A-Are you okay?" It was a soft chant of a statement and spoke of worry even without really knowing the girl other than their first disastrous meeting and the brief encounter before falling.
"I'm fine. A fall like that doesn't really affect a witch much at all." Just hearing her voice one more time almost felt like the electricity of touch as it zapped through her veins and dried her throat out.
"That's g-good." Akko murmured as she watched her and hoped that she didn't begin to walk unsteadily and get caught by the Alpha before her that probably would not help her out at all in that instance.
The only thing that pulled Akko even a little out of the fog that she was in was the soft near scream of a familiar voice that had her panicking though it didn't matter in this place if she rushed toward the other as if her mate was seriously injured and needed to be guarded from any other oncoming dangers.
"I'm fine. My broom isn't though." Lotte murmured as Akko began quickly assessing the area for any damage as if she were paranoid and then finally calming down.
"We can get it fixed, right?" Akko asked, hopefully, with a bright optimistic smile on her own face.
"We can." Lotte murmured as they both began to turn their attention to the third member in their group that had muttered a rather dark sounding statement of arriving at her destination.
Akko felt that something wasn't right, and it wasn't long before her suspicions were confirmed and the fact that they weren't at Luna Nova was made known to Akko.
'Arcturus Forest' rippled like gunfire through Akko's veins as she tried to calm her breathing as Lotte brought forth the meaning of the word as she stood there, a little bit worried despite herself.
The further explanation that Lotte provided as they walked on only left Akko more worried though she did well to hide it if only to keep her secret guarded for another moment longer though her worries also began to fester up and soon only focus on whether she'd make Matriculation in time and be able to report back home that she'd finally made it to Luna Nova and that everything would be okay though she knew that they'd worry immensely about her anyway.
It didn't take Akko long to spot the glimmer of some kind of jewel or plant as it rose up as she pushed back her old fears and felt more than ever her desire to become a witch, to rise above what was expected of her, and to follow Shiny Chariot's example.
Akko ran forward partially to investigate and partially because she'd spotted some of her stuff, cracker boxes spilled onto their sides, releasing their contents in a crumbled mess, a box that was thankfully mostly concealed that she'd stashed quite a bit of suppressants in and at least a few different magical centered objects that she hadn't quite discovered the use for.
She reached forward and began picking up some of her items and even watched the green and curling plant with leaves that arched up, small but determined to rise to their purpose, before her spill out what looked just like, but couldn't be, could it: the Shiny Rod.
Her heart gasped as she stared at the symbol of the woman that she'd looked up to for some time now, a woman that rose above everything before her, an Alpha that carried no real scent to place her class upon her with.
