This is the third chapter, and we're still in the reintroduction phase, kinda. Oh, goodie. Also, sorry about not posting yesterday, but it completely slipped my mind.

Faye sat down on the cold stone floor of the dorm room. Except for the work desk and the dressers—which were currently covered in stuff—the floor was the only place that was flat enough for this. She put a coin down, leaving her hand on it for several seconds. She then took her hand away, keeping it raised above the coin. When the coin did not move for several minutes, she slammed her fist onto her bed and hissed, "Darn it!"

No one was around, so she let the outburst out. While she would have never said anything like that when her team was around, letting her feelings out sometimes felt good. Sometimes it was a chore to keep her emotions in, but most of the time it was well worth it.

She had not used Polarity since the battle, and since then she had heard of the death of Pyrrha Nikos—the one whose semblance she was mimicking. She did not yet know if she could mimic the semblances of the dead, so far only the living. This was the first time she had tried, and it seemed that she had failed.

Then again, it might be her fear. She had heard that fear could sometimes interfere with some people's semblance. She wondered if it was her fear of failing or Nikos being dead that stopped her. One could be helped, the other could not. She wondered which it was.

There was a knock on the door, and she picked up the coin quickly. She answered, "Yes, who is it?"

The door opened—which always drove her crazy when someone did that—and on the other side was Lorna. Lorna with her ginger hair and fox ears had been her friend since they were students together at Asylum.

"Hey, Feather—excuse me, Faye," Lorna said. The sound of her first name was annoying to her. Her parents had been very uncreative with that one, as feathers were her way of showing her Faunus heritage, just as Lorna's was fox ears. She much preferred her middle name, and Lorna knew it. That is what made Lorna laugh nervously.

"Hello, Lorna," Faye replied, ignoring the slight. "What is it?"

"Remember team SFRN?" She did. Team SFRN was from Vale, and when Beacon fell, SFRN transferred to Haven. If she remembered correctly, Storm's cousin Redell was on that team.

Faye nodded saying, "Yes."

"Well, I decided to show the team leader around the city. Do you want to come?"

While Faye wanted to stay and practice, she also wanted to be around Lorna. Since Faye had come to Haven, Lorna's team—team AWLH—had been very busy, and she had not gotten many chances to meet with her friend, so any opportunity to be around her would be welcome. "Yes, I would."

"Great then. Let's go." Faye followed Lorna as she left her team's room, and walked to team SFRN's.

She had gotten used to the drywall of Beacon, so the stone corridors of Haven made her return to the feelings she had once had when she first arrived. She felt trapped almost, underground as they were. Haven's rooms were carved out of a mountain, and had been used as a military base during the Great War. After the war, it was converted into the Huntsmen academy that it was now, but it still had an almost oppressive feel to the place.

Headmaster Forester declared that classes would start up until three days from now. It was so that the students could get some rest after returning from the tournament. Faye certainly thought she could use the rest, as did many others.

As they went along, they passed team SSSN's room. The door was open, and while Faye could see into it, she felt it was still an invasion of privacy, and kept her eyes straight. SSSN was one of the more popular teams on campus, and off it, and entirely comprised of male students. She could almost smell the testosterone coming out of the room—or at least, she hoped it was testosterone.

Faye so hoped that Scarlet did not notice her. He had tried talking to her once before, and it was only her fear of reprisal that kept her from slapping him for what he called her. Unfortunately, he may have sensed that he was being thought of, and his voice crept out from the room. "Hello, girls. How's it going?"

There was no ignoring him, and Lorna probably did not know his reputation, so she would not help her get out of this. She decided to face this. Faye turned around and saw Scarlet David, face-to-face. "We're fine," Lorna said. "We were just on our way to meet one of the new teams—SFRN."

"Ah, team SFRN," Scarlet said. "Well, give them my best…" Then it seemed that Scarlet finally noticed Faye, despite the fact that even slouched she was slightly taller than Lorna standing straight, which should have made her instantly noticeable. Sometimes, it paid to be figuratively invisible. "Oh, sorry, love."

She sighed painfully. "Excuse me, but why did you call me 'love'?" Faye asked.

"Sorry, again," he said nervously. "And I'm sorry for what I called you before."

"Before?" Lorna asked. "You two have met?"

"Yes, and I do not want to talk about it," Faye said, irritated.

"Wait, what'd he called you?" Lorna asked.

"Please stop," Faye said.

"No, I want to know what he called you." Lorna looked intently at Scarlet.

He gave in and told her. "I called her a bird." Lorna eyes grew wide. "It's slang from where I come from."

"And where is that from exactly—the moon?" Lorna said. "And slang for wha… I don't want to know." She turned to Faye. "Faye, let's go. Scarlet, don't ever talk to us again." Lorna grasped Faye by the hand, and led her away from Scarlet.

Once they were some rooms away, Faye smiled a little. "You know, in hindsight, that is a little funny," Faye said.

"Well…" Lorna laughed a little. "I guess it is."

They eventually got to team SFRN's room, and when they did Lorna knocked on the door. A voice came from inside. "Who is it?"

"Welcoming comity," Lorna answered back.

Faye turned to Lorna. "We are a comity?"

"It's an expression," Lorna said. "Though if we're a comity, we're a pretty small one." Lorna turned back to the door. "We want to show you around. Can we come in?"

"Sure," said the voice. Lorna opened the door, and inside was a bit of a mess. It seemed as though they were in the middle of unpacking, and no one wanted to finish the job. The only person around was a short woman with blonde hair and brown eyes in a Haven uniform sitting on the edge of a bed trying to sort things. "Sorry about the mess. I don't know what to do with my team's stuff, and two of them are out sparring while the other is on a manhunt."

"A manhunt?" Lorna said.

"Yeah, Fuchsia is out looking some guy she was dating during the festival."

"Wait, Fuchsia?" Faye said.

"Yeah, that's her name. What about it?"

"I believe I met her during the battle of Vale. Which means that the one she is after is my teammate, Rusti."

"Oh!" she said, stretching out the word. "Then I'm sorry, but you're not going to be at full strength for a while. She is going to talk his ear off when she finds him."

"Really?"

"Yeah. While she was in the hospital after the battle, he dumped her. And not even in person—with a card he left! The nerve of that guy." She shook her head. "Anyway, she was really upset when she started looking for him, and is probably going to find him and demand an explanation." Faye nodded in understanding. This could be bad.

"Anyway, what's your name?" Lorna asked.

"Oh, sorry, I guess I skipped that. I'm Saffron Florian."

"Lorna Sionn."

"Faye Elric."

"Well, now that that's settled, let's see what kind of tour you have planned."

As they were about to leave, two people walked by. One was the lime green-haired Crystal, in her finely made dark green tunic and pants, with the Crystal Blades on her back. Next to her was a tall man in finer clothes of similar color, with graying brown hair, and an emerald encrusted rapier at his belt. The man had a certain noble and almost terrifying air to him. She wondered who he was, and why Crystal was with him.

Then she caught sight of his symbol on his belt. It was the very same symbol that Crystal had stitched on her tunic's shoulders. She realized who he was—who he had to be. He was Lord Dustin Taryn, descendant of kings, member of the Mistral Council, and father of Crystal. She wondered what Lord Taryn was doing here.

But the concerns of lords were probably nothing that she had to worry about. She turned back to her friends, and followed them.

No, I'm not going through why Faye's last name is "Elric" again. You seriously don't want to know.