My legs moved automatically as if I were on a journey that I had made every day for the past 10 years and sohow just instinctively knew where to go. I figured that it was BB nudging in the right direction, that or the body I was now inhabiting used to belong to soone else and I was riding off their muscle mory. I chose to believe it was the first of the two options, I didn't want to think that my arrival in this universe had been at the expense of another sentient being. Either way, I seed to know where I was going for this supposed Guard Initiate showdown.
I didn't get to see much of the city from inside the Guard complex. While I could see out over the walls from my room, which was a glass skyscraper like seemingly every other building in the city, the cast walls of the skywalk I was on kept my views of the wider world to a minimum. That didn't an there wasn't a lot for my simple human brain to try and avoid gawking at, though.
As I passed from the enclosed hallway out into a main central plaza it took all I had to just keep walking, acting as if I belonged there like any other lifeform. Vehicles flew overhead, not quite spaceships or shuttles but not quite flying cars either. They had no obvious signs of propulsion and just seed to glide through the air unaided, they were clearly the result of so magic and technology hybrid that I hadn't learned about yet.
While the Magitech was cool, and don't get wrong it totally was, the life forms walking around the plaza were even cooler. So of them were quadrupedal, walking around on four legs with torsos that jutted out of their bodies like a centaur. So squelched about on tentacles, their many legs waving across the ground in such intricate patterns that I couldn't help but wonder how they didn't simply trip up. Others weren't even walking at all. They hovered around on what I could only assu were attuned clouds of pure magical energy. They just sat, smiled, and let the glittering cloud of magical gas glide them to where they wanted to be. There were beings with three arms, beings with four arms, and beings with no arms at all. The plaza was a cornucopia of species. I swallowed thickly. The plaza was a cornucopia of species that all looked incredibly physically strong.
That thought brought an internal snort from BB. the AI drawled, BB snarked.
I gave the AI the ntal equivalent of an eye roll. I knew he'd be a bit of an asshole, I'd always been a bit of a cocky asshole back on Earth, but I'd also pledged to not be that guy any more in my new life. Look where it had gotten . When I had been hit by that truck and sent into the Chasm, the void creature or whatever it had been had told that all the things I had done up until that point had basically amounted to nothing, and with a bit of thought on the subject, the creatures had to have been right.
I had been unemployed, my grades in school had been the result of chronic coasting and were nowhere near as high as they should have been, and my friends had all slowly drifted away from on account of my toxic personality. Sure, I had been a bit of a cocky asshole, but had there been anything of substance to back that cockiness up? No, no there hadn't, and in the long run, it hadn't served well at all. I wanted a change of pace, even if I was going to be constantly reminded of how I'd been in the past by an annoying wisecracking AI.
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