"You first, girl. You know I get stage fright. Should come really nice and easy to you with all that singing you've been doing lately."
X winked at Marina smugly between a mouthful of Skittles as he took a handful from the bag.

Marina glared at him. "Gross, X. Fine. I'm Marina Ng, pink tag, and I've been here for the last year dealing with him." Marina jutted her chin at X. "Oh and word of warning: speak one word about Aseurotech to the government and I get to shove your head into the nearest tuba."

"Marina....."

"What?" Marina turned he hands up.

(pst thought she was purple)

"Guess that leaves me next." X stepped up, passing off the bag of Skittles to Lio as he made his way to the front of the room.

"How's everyone doin'? Name's Axel Haile, orange tag, though most people around here just call me X, short and simple. I know I'm a bit older than y'all, but I've been with Aseurotech a couple years now. Joined real late due to some weird situations. But I'll talk about that another time, ain't gonna hog the stage.
Oh yeah, don't mind Mari either, she's sweet, maybe real rough around the edges, but I just like to rib her." He took his seat, motioning whoever was next to go ahead.

Marina glared st him. "Uh huh. Dont you go around trying to court me again. I ditched you a long time ago, Hailatorm."

"As if, girl. I just like to mess with you."
He held up his hand, pointing to the black carbide ring on his hand.
"Still taken, by the way. Write you a raincheck in another life."

Lio took his calculator back. "Seriously?" He glanced at the screen. "Oh. Col."

Marina huffed. "Great. Now we're in Nerdville."

"Marina.." Susan warned. "ANd er, thank you for thse calculations, Dashiell....."

"Silvano Wren, fourteen years old," Silvano said. "Green tag." He looked around, then addressed Dashiell. "Why not just round it to 97 centimetres?"

"I'm Elynna Flamian, sixteen years old, pink tag," Elynna stated. "Oh, and don't make me kill you." She smiled sweetly.