Chapter 189: Dining With Angels
Rainier cleaned his teeth. He brushed his sky-blue hair and trimmed his eyebrows. He scrubbed his face until it was rosy, and then used some of the lotion the servants restocked every week. Luxuries he’d never even conceived of on Ayther were everyday occurrences, and he often would discover something about his situation that made him either flinch at the excess or wonder why Heaven couldn’t just give or sell such things to Aytherians.
Like the tablets. Sure, according to Cassie they were new, and almost everything on them was written in Angelic but there had been some texts that he’d found in Common and it seemed every day Ozzy or Cassie had some new picture or video to show him. Surely there would be people with the mana to maintain such amazing devices.
His tablet was currently telling him it was time to prepare for the dinner occurring in half an hour. It had taken him ages just to turn the thing off when it alerted him at first, but now he did so with quick ease, having learned just enough Angelic to navigate the "menus" in a basic sense.
Angels were always quite punctual, and he needed to be fifteen minutes early to situate himself, so after lightly waxing his hair, he slipped into his formal greys. The uniforms were high-collared and felt loose at the back - a concession to wings he did not have, but they weren’t about to change the uniform for him.
For a moment, he contemplated wearing his ’training wings’, but this was just dinner... Right?
He was wondering if he should leave his sword in the room instead of keeping it in his storage when Cassie opened his door with a smile.
"Well ain’t you looking good," she winked. "Ready to go?"
"I’m ready," Rain said.
The trainees normally took their meals in the nearby dining hall, but this time Cassie led him and Ozzy across the entire mansion to the Flight Wing.
It was the largest building, but not the tallest. An open oval decorated on the outside like a bird’s nest, with arcing, crisscrossing lines of magic-wrought steel instead of twigs and branches. How the structure could bulge out from its pedestal-like base without collapsing was beyond Rainier’s understanding, but architectural wonders were amongst the first things he’d had to get used to, so he simply took the sight of the building in stride as he remembered his initial, gawking reactions during his first tour.
As soon as he entered, he regretted not bringing his artificial wings.