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RANK: UNRANKED │ MERIT: 000 │ PUBLIC: 000 │ STANDING: 0
STATUS: APPLICANT │ CALL: NONE │ CONDITION: GOOD
APR 18 • 09:14 │ Meridian Central Assessment Center │ Busy
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The wall beside registration becomes a door.
Not metaphorically.
A thin line of pale light finishes tracing a rectangle through reinforced concrete, and an entire section of wall simply opens inward. A woman in a fitted Vanguard suit steps through carrying a dented toolbox under one arm, curly black hair already escaping around her face.
Imani: "Bay Four's wall lost an argument."
She lets the glowing doorway close behind her. Concrete becomes concrete again.
The receptionist does not even look up.
Receptionist: "Again?"
Imani: "Different wall."
A muffled impact rolls through the building hard enough to make the hanging registration signs tremble.
Across the lobby, applicants glance toward the testing wing. One man in homemade armor suddenly looks much less confident. Someone else keeps filling out paperwork like exploding rooms are simply part of the hiring process.
Above them, a wall-sized ranking display cycles through C-Class placements before abruptly shrinking into the corner of the screen.
Nadia, over the facility speakers: "Assessment staff, keep applicants out of Corridor Six. That is not a drill issue. Side Door, if you're still downstairs, I need you east side."
Imani closes her eyes for half a second.
Imani: "Of course you do."
She sets the toolbox on the registration counter, gives 你 a quick once-over—not suspicious, just curious—then hooks one thumb toward the testing halls.
Imani: "First day?"
Before the answer can become anyone else's business, the receptionist slides a digital form across the counter toward 你.
Receptionist: "Registration name. Hero name, if you have one. Then give me the short version of what you can do."
Another distant crash follows.
The receptionist finally glances toward it, then back to 你.
Receptionist: "Short version first."*
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