Cherry's Intro!

Althea was just kind of minding her own business on that day, as she had been for a while around the guild.  Holed up in a corner of the hall, she just spent her time drinking juice and watching people.  It wasn’t that she didn’t feel like interacting with others or anything, it was just that she found her __ of their actions to be more than satisfactory.  I mean, if you talk to one person, it’s going to take focus to properly formulate a sentence.  And if Althea had to draw her attention to literally everything happening in the room, she would probably miss something.  The bonde let out a sigh, hopefully her differing behavior wasn’t due to a shift or anything, although it wasn’t like she went out of her way to talk to her guildmates in the past either.  Maybe that was why she didn’t know all that many people, how depressing.  The slayer had spent ages in Fairy Tail yet she had only gotten to know a few select people.

“I guess it can’t be helped…” Althea murmured before inhaling some juice.  It was a rather unsatisfactory conclusion to come to, but it was one she had arrived at many times before.  That is before the doors of the guildhall opened, revealing another person to become victim to Althea’s aggressive people watching.  She hadn’t seen them before, and nearly the moment they entered they fell over.  The teen forced herself to suppress any laughter from the sight of it, mages sure were odd people.  Forgetting about her previous desire to pay attention to literally everything, the blonde approached the girl, juicebox in hand.  “Yep yep, hey Cherry, I’m Althea.”  She replied casually, tuning out most of the stammered words the redhead was uttering, “Sure, you can join the guild.  Why would you think you couldn’t?”

Althea’s expression didn’t change from her typical aloof and slightly uninterested stare while Cherry spoke.  It was the kind of look someone would give you right before saying, ‘Sorry, I wasn’t paying attention, could you say that again?’  However, the slayer certainly wasn’t ignoring what the young girl was talking of, although she couldn’t deny she skipped over a few things when listening before.  Sighing, Althea decided to give her two cents on the topic,  “I mean, weak is kinda a subjective word.”   She voiced, casting her gaze upwards in thought.  “What does being strong mean anyways? You were strong enough to come here to the guild even while believing yourself to be worthless or whatever.”  The youth offered fleetingly, holding her hands behind her head as she pondered.  “And the best thing about being human is that you’ve got a chance to grow ‘n’ stuff, so one day you could end up hurling meteors at people… or whatever your magic does.”  Althea placed her hands on her hips decisively, a grin emerging onto her features.  “So catch yourself a break, alright? I don't even know what you're apologising for!”