In general, Aternity usually avoided the school.
A place of superpowered children and ridiculously complex adults, Starlight Academy was something of a death trap in Ternie's mind. Pay no attention to the fact that he too had powers, or that he had a daughter that did as well. No, it was everyone else's problem that they created problems at the school, not his own.
Unfortunately, today Aternity could not avoid the school, as parent-teacher conferences were being done and based on the unwritten contract signed by him in order to be Emeraude's husband, the guy was forced to go support his daughter through the teacher's droning. (Hint: he was bribed.) Thankfully, the conference had not been as long as expected, and additionally, the teacher had mentioned that his little witch had stopped transferring lizard souls into crayons...and her grades were rather good. The father/daughter pair had been walking out of the school for a few minutes, only with Ternie carrying a rather large cardboard box in her hands.
Tourmaline had been begging to see what was inside it. Ternie was only smiling as they stepped out on the courtyard.
"Open it, open it!"
"Hold on..."
Tourmaline was jumping and then clinging to Ternie's leg. Popping open the lid, Ternie lifted out a rather large quadcopter drone. Not one of the dinky little ones...no. This device was a full 4 feet squared, cameras, the works. Explaining it to Tourmaline however took a little creativity. She knew about spirits...not about technology. Strangely, she was good with little drones. It was time to upgrade to something a bit bigger.
"Alright silly, here's the controller. There's a machine spirit inside already which is connected to the one in the flyer there."
"But that..."
"Just go with it sweetheart. Be light on the stick, it's pretty quick."
Ternie turned on drone, which started to whir and click, then promptly lifting itself to a hovering height. Tourmaline started to turn the sticks, making the drone flit about the courtyard. It wasn't hard to fly a quadcopter...but sometimes it's when overconfidence hits when drones can cause...incidents.
"Can it do a loop-the-loop?"
"No it cannnn't!"
She hadn't waited for an answer, and pressed the throttle full bore forward, lurching the massive drone towards one of the Academy's 3rd floor windows. Likely leading into a hallway. Instinctively, Ternie teleported in front of the drone to catch it before doing damage, but unfortunately, this was not a little 8 oz toy. Instead, a 30 pound flying circus flew into him at nearly 20 miles per hour. He caught the drone, grasping it in his arms.
And then the window caught him. Unfortunately, glass doesn't do great with things flying though them. The noise was quite extreme, and quite complimenting of a lightly bleeding body on the ground of the third floor with glass laying everywhere.
The drone was unharmed.
"...Why did I do that?"
A place of superpowered children and ridiculously complex adults, Starlight Academy was something of a death trap in Ternie's mind. Pay no attention to the fact that he too had powers, or that he had a daughter that did as well. No, it was everyone else's problem that they created problems at the school, not his own.
Unfortunately, today Aternity could not avoid the school, as parent-teacher conferences were being done and based on the unwritten contract signed by him in order to be Emeraude's husband, the guy was forced to go support his daughter through the teacher's droning. (Hint: he was bribed.) Thankfully, the conference had not been as long as expected, and additionally, the teacher had mentioned that his little witch had stopped transferring lizard souls into crayons...and her grades were rather good. The father/daughter pair had been walking out of the school for a few minutes, only with Ternie carrying a rather large cardboard box in her hands.
Tourmaline had been begging to see what was inside it. Ternie was only smiling as they stepped out on the courtyard.
"Open it, open it!"
"Hold on..."
Tourmaline was jumping and then clinging to Ternie's leg. Popping open the lid, Ternie lifted out a rather large quadcopter drone. Not one of the dinky little ones...no. This device was a full 4 feet squared, cameras, the works. Explaining it to Tourmaline however took a little creativity. She knew about spirits...not about technology. Strangely, she was good with little drones. It was time to upgrade to something a bit bigger.
"Alright silly, here's the controller. There's a machine spirit inside already which is connected to the one in the flyer there."
"But that..."
"Just go with it sweetheart. Be light on the stick, it's pretty quick."
Ternie turned on drone, which started to whir and click, then promptly lifting itself to a hovering height. Tourmaline started to turn the sticks, making the drone flit about the courtyard. It wasn't hard to fly a quadcopter...but sometimes it's when overconfidence hits when drones can cause...incidents.
"Can it do a loop-the-loop?"
"No it cannnn't!"
She hadn't waited for an answer, and pressed the throttle full bore forward, lurching the massive drone towards one of the Academy's 3rd floor windows. Likely leading into a hallway. Instinctively, Ternie teleported in front of the drone to catch it before doing damage, but unfortunately, this was not a little 8 oz toy. Instead, a 30 pound flying circus flew into him at nearly 20 miles per hour. He caught the drone, grasping it in his arms.
And then the window caught him. Unfortunately, glass doesn't do great with things flying though them. The noise was quite extreme, and quite complimenting of a lightly bleeding body on the ground of the third floor with glass laying everywhere.
The drone was unharmed.
"...Why did I do that?"