"Looks like I'll have to give you a test and fill in the gaps in your experience as a student."
With a clang, Ceobe's fork fell into the pot. She looked like disaster had struck, staring at Claude as though she had seen something utterly terrifying, her face full of fear.
Rising Reunion Movement: Arrival
Thousands of workers worked together, each performing their own duties, opening and closing the city's complex mechanical systems according to procedure. Vast amounts of exhaust from the machinery were discharged, shrouding the entire city in thick smoke. The mechanical structures, gradually cooled by coolant, finally fell silent, and the city slowly came to a stop on this plain.
The city's energy core gradually ceased outputting its violent streams of energy, and its temperature began to drop.
Hundreds of engineers immediately led their teams into the city's various systems and began inspections and repairs. Every time the city started or stopped, it required a major overhaul to prevent serious problems during the next startup. After all, if something went wrong while a mobile city was starting up, the casualties would certainly not be few.
The restrictions had been lifted, and residents could leave their homes and move about outside. The entire city shed its previous tense, oppressive atmosphere and quickly became lively. Soldiers, civilians, and the newly trained Reunion Movement police officers all wore smiles. The mobile city's safe stop meant they could return to their normal lives.
The merchants who had been stranded in Chernobog because of the war also set out with their caravans, large and small. They would bring all manner of goods to the city and enrich the variety of its markets. Though inconvenient transportation meant that most cities' markets primarily sold locally produced goods, they did not reject foreign merchandise. Only