Chapter 381: A welcome home party
Taylor eventually was able to check on everyone, and found that most had some overexertion, or some strained muscles, but were healthy physically beyond that. She looked like she was glowing after all of the attention she had received, but she still made sure to remind everyone to visit a therapist to talk over things.
She wasn’t a mind doctor, that’s why they had a good therapy department. When it appeared as if all of them balked at the idea of going to a mind doctor, Taylor had sighed heavily before she glanced at Kellen and Rhys. She then told them that Kellen went to one, and that seemed to take some of the tension out of a few of their shoulders. Kellen didn’t like that because he did it, it made it cool, but whatever worked.
Kellen and the students eventually made plans to meet up in the cafeteria in an hour’s time. Kellen had suggested that they could get take out if they wanted, and hang out in one of the Guide designated rooms in the Guiding Division, but they were all insistent that they eat at the cafeteria. It was only after they left that Kellen found out why.
"It’s a tradition." Esper Morrison told him, a small grin on his face. "The Espers do it every time they come back from a deployment to the front lines. They eat in the cafeteria and usually cry about the food quality. It would make sense that the Field Guides would want to do the same thing. It’s very cute though. I am sure they will be well taken care of over the next few days. From my brief time speaking to the others on the front lines it appears that they did a remarkable job, Guide Woods." Kellen could feel his heart warm, knowing that others had probably said more.
He also knew that Brent was making an official report on the first week’s Guides. That it should be posted within the next few days and would be sent to the Saturn Guild soon. For some reason, technology just didn’t always work on the front lines. There was a reason that everyone was using the Nemesis Guild’s equipment. It was incredibly expensive to set up a hub, and there was a chance it wouldn’t work.
Captain Sergei didn’t do it for free. He did get a reimbursement from the government if he allowed others on the front lines to use it, and he also wasn’t the kind of man who would hoard things from himself if it would make society better.
Either way, Kellen was looking forward to hearing from his students, and he was sure that he wasn’t the only one. He had a feeling that the others would show up. Kellen wanted to extend the invitation to Rhys, see if he wanted to come, but Rhys shot him down before the words even left his mouth.
Rhys pulled Kellen in for a hug shortly after Taylor had left, but Esper Morrison remained around.
"I won’t be able to join you. I have a meeting in a few minutes. We’re going over the results of the test Sakura was doing overseas. I’m sure you’ll want to hear the results of that, so I have to be there to listen in. I think I might get beaten up by a few people if I’m not." Rhys joked, but Kellen felt his chest tightened.