After lunch, Loki puts on his game face: a younger, college-aged elf with a ruddy complexion and sandy hair. He arrives at campus to see that some checkpoints have been set up, but it seems that everyone is ignoring them by simply walking around them, and Loki does the same. The guards who are stationed at the checkpoints are not wearing any sort of riot armor, and they look absolutely impotent as students and parents walk by them, just outside their reach. It seems the guards have given up on maintaining any real semblance of control, and from the expressions on everyone's face, it looks as though they're doing it with good reason. One thing that jumps out at Loki immediately is the number of parents on campus now. It seems everyone has flown in to check on their darlings, and parents are following their annoyed children who are of an age where they'd prefer to believe that they didn't have parents to begin with.
The second thing that jumps out at Loki are the AROs of Breeze's picture from the news. They're plastered over practically every dorm window and digital bulletin board, all with some text that reads a variation of, "We don't know who you are, but thank you," and "Good Guy Decker doesn't need uni sec to save lives." The tension in the air is very real, and there seems to be a lot of anger projected at the university in general at the moment. Loki doesn't know quite how to take this. Growing up where he did, there were plenty abuses of power, and he's never seen a push-back quite like this one. One the one hand, it's comforting that people are paying attention, but on the other, he knows that if this wasn't the best and brightest of the CAS, no one would bat an eye.
Loki approaches the Magical Studies Lab to see that Drampe and a few of the other MS faculty are addressing a rather large group of parents and their students. "Indeed, we are incredibly saddened by the events of yesterday evening, and we are taking this matter very seriously," he says. "That two of our own are now in the hospital, it's like my own children are there, and I want you all to know that I will not sleep until this matter has reached a full and complete investigation. We will protect your students here at Texas A&M&M, and this precisely the reason why I have been advocating stricter security in the MS lab."
"Ahh, this is bullshit," Loki hears a parent close to the back of the group mutter. "I know I made my donations, and what do I have to show for it? A daughter in the hospital, that's what."
Drampe continues on about the need for unity, and how the students and parents of the MS program are the chief resources needed to bring this matter to a satisfactory conclusion, but that they should avoid back-biting and criticism toward the MS program in general. "This is a school security mater, after all," he says before excusing himself for a meeting. "I am going right now to address this matter with school administration and the school security forces. Please know that I will be bringing your concerns to bear in this matter," he says before excusing himself.
The parents linger after Drampe's departure, obviously unsatisfied with the present conditions. Loki pulls aside the parent who spoke earlier, noting the human heritage, he asks, "You must be Felicity's dad, eh?"
"Yes, I take it you know her?"
Loki says that he's in one of the classes that Felicity TAs, and that he thinks she's just wiz. The father introduces himself as Chance, and hands Loki an access card to the hospital where Felicity is staying along and slots Drampe's comm-code to Loki. "Pass this along to your parents, would you? Drampe says he's available to hear our concerns, fraggin' slotface. Lotta good that does now. Anyway, nice to meet you, I've gotta get back to my daughter. Come by if you get a chance. I know she'd love to see everyone."
