[HERO QUEST] The Heroine and the Unwilling Apprentice

Falling, falling, falling; people were falling from the heavens to get a chance to venture forth into the Hero's Summit. Since, as soon as The Angel of The Ice exited her igloo to have a breath of fresh air, her oceanic eyes came across another weary traveler making his way to her domain. This caused The Celestial to then cease her movement and blink at the not-so-surprising turn of events. With her instincts as sharp as glass, Cirno could only assume one thing about the guy: this person was another seeking to discover his way in this world and find his heroic path.

Why would she assume this off the bat? Simple: she had been through dozens, hundreds, nay, thousands of times at this point. Ever since the start of the year, so many lost souls had found their way to this peak in order to uncover and explore the inner light within themselves. Following the call of this Angel, these spirits came together, grew and flourished into what is now known as "The Guild Of Heroes". It was small faction of the world which consisted of many thousands of individuals who wished to fight for what was right; whenever and wherever they were needed.

But, more importantly, these off-track and adrift souls assembled together to forge a community and family to whether through the storm of darkness which devoured and consumed the world. And, given how misplaced and anemic the male before her looked, Cirno could only guess he was here for these reasons as well. Thus, as a frigid breeze whipped around them both, her smile could only grow with delight as she was ready to begin her morning and day off right with fulfilling her duty as an angel and helping another soul unlock their potential.

Hence, as her sky dyed hair and blue head bow flickered in the wind, The Angel of The Ice would wrap her hands behind herself and begin bouncing towards the human with a pep in her step. Eventually, in two blinks of an eye, the chipper woman would appear before the traveler and her waist length hair would almost smack him in the face before she pulled it back with a snicker. As now she would have a chance to inspect the slight differences between them. Differences such as the fact she was the taller one on this instance.

Compared to his five foot five stature, Cirno felt pretty tall with her meager one extra inch in height! So, more giggles could only escape her mouth as mischievous thoughts danced around in her mind. Skipping, skipping and skipping; The Angel seemed to prance around him and examined the whole of his body as she gave herself a full three sixty tour of the human before coming to a stop in front of him.

Yep, yep, yep -- he was a wobbly guy through and through!

But that was fine by The Celestial! As the bare soles of her feet stopped in the frigid snow covered earth beneath them both, The Angel would grin and place her hands at the sides of her most long blue dress. With The Maiden's six icicle wings fluttering behind with glee, she'd tilt her head to the side and hold out her right arm to shake Takeshi's right hand.

"Well, you look like someone who is lost! Hi! My name is Cirno Iramasha and I'm The Angel of The Ice! Pleasure to meet you, human!"

Placid, childish and upbeat; these three words were well enough to describe the tone of voice Miss Cirno gave off to the male. And that is because she was genuinely thrilled to get started on fulfilling her duties as a proper Angel of The Light. It wasn't the type of forced and fake happiness that you'd see someone paid in business gives, but rather, a genuine sense of delight which filled every fiber of The Celestial's being. As, the further her cause and goal reached of helping other, the deeper and more satisfied Cirno's angelic embodiment felt. For, if this was the reverse, it would be comparable to a demon finding their comfort in invoking all sorts of living hell upon the earth.

None the less, there wasn't enough time to praddle on about all these wonderful fuzzy feelings inside: there was a job to do -- and she needed to get to the point!

Therefore, with her free hand, she'd point at Takeshi and snicker before asking him this important question:

"Judging from your looks, I can bet you are here for the training, right? You must be a hero? If so, please tell me what it is you desire so I can help you!"

With that, she'd then stand there, wait and observe the response she'd get from the male. Given that he was powerless at the moment, there must've been some crazy circumstance which allowed him to be brought here -- and she was curious to hear it!