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Tessa paced her class room while waiting for her pupil to arrive. The girl she was waiting for was named Cleo, Cleo was a nice pleasant name and Tessa wondered if her personality would be the same. Another student by the name of Altessa meaning noble reaper had been a less than happy young child.

Happy or grumpy it's my job to teach her, Tessa mused. At least Cleo shouldn't be too hard to work with skill wise, she though brushing a plum coloured lock behind her ear. Dark violet eyes stared at a door on the far side of the room. It lead to a terrain room where the girl's test would be, hopefully what she'd designed would prove effective as a test and could be used later on similarly gifted childen.

Glancing up at a clock she grinned, it shouldn't be too long now before the girl and her guardian got there.

Tessa smiled at the cheery child, this girl was going to be a pleasure to teach. " It's ok we all get lost from time to time." Considering she'd nearly gotten lost and been late to her original interview for her job here she knew this to be true.

She nodded to mother and child " Pleasure to meet you both." Formalities out of the way it was business time. " Now Cleo we'll be going into a terrain room today, it's a special room made to mimic other places we can't actually get to. Your test is set up in there. Your mother can come with us to watch if she wishes or if you want her to but she has to agree not to distract you."

" Nope no monsters, though it's good to know how to fight and you will be taking lessons here about that later." Tessa said shakign her head. " Follow me please" she said before walking towards one of the doors alogn the far wall.

"Your test is a natural obstacle course, you'll run it and I'll write down how well you handled each part of the course." The test wasn't too hard but it wasn't too easy either though the girl should show an improvement in her sucess after multiple runs.

" Almost we just have to get to the starting point." That said Tessa tucked her clipboard under her arm and opened the door.
Upon opening it there was a small blast of warm air that smelled of very fragrent flowers. Motioning for the mother daughter pair to follow her Tessa walked into the terrain room.

Instantly she was englufed in a forest and although she could make out the rooms ceiling above her there was quite a bit of obstructing leafy canopy making it hard. " Please note when you step in that the first part if this habitat is forrested, there's a path to follow that leads to a clearing and from there you can head to the small cliff range we have or follow the stream that sections off the land to the series of miniature caves"

For Tessa this was the strangest room ever, depending on the weather controls used you could have summer in the forest and snow on the cliffs at the same time.

Becuase it had the most possibilities it had been the room Tessa had chosen for Cleo as she could use different parts of the different habitats to test the girl's skill.

She lead the pair to large fallen tree trunk. " Cleo your first obstacle is to walk acoss the trunk." Due to trees with low lyign branches , moss and ground plant overgrowing the log it wouldn't be an easy test but it would give Tessa a good idea of which obstacles to do and which to skip. " You can start when you are read"

As she finished jotting down her notes Tessa nodded. " Very good, I certainly couldn't do that." This was true both due to her size and lack of the skill Cleo was showing. Based on what she'd seen so far another two obstacles should be all that was required to prove the girl was nimble beyond average and then it would be homework time.

Multiple runs over the course she'd decided were now not advised untill she had more practise but in perhaps a month some retesting could be done to see improvement.

" Follow me please." she said turning and walking down the dirt path.

" Nope, you can get as dirty as you want" Tessa said looking over her shoulder and willing at the girl. " Dirt is good for children or so I've been told." Honestly she doubted that a little dirt would hurt the girl, besides the tests were not designed with keeping clean in mind.

When they reached the next obstacle Tessa stopped and began explaining it. " Cleo I need you to follow the red line wrapped around the trees It's a big circle and you'll end up back here behind us." The path the girl had to follow was not one tessa could watch but that was fine. Trap controlled objects would swing and launch themselves at the girl , controlled by techs monitering the session. They would record the results of this test and radio them to her.

Tessa had been slightly uncomfertable when Cleo's mother had been glaring at her. The last thing she needed was a hostile parent on her case. She'd been glad when Cleo had appeared.

Blowing plum coloured bangs out of her eyes she nodded at the girl's question. " Yep anything that came at you was supposed to, There are people watching us from other room who controlled stuff going at you and will tell me how well you did."

Considering he way the girl look Tessa decided to call it a day, pushing the girl much further might hinder her scores, besides the child's body probably needed to calm down. Not to mention that she didn't want to be responsible for injuries Cleo got while tryign her little heart out." While I wait for your score let's walk back to the class ok?"

As they re-entered the classroom Tessa nodded " Yep we're done" She would of said more had walkign talkie in her back pocket not buzzed. She awnserd it made several "Mmhmms" and " Is that sos" before clicking it off and grinning and at the girl.

"Well Cleo you passed your test, A bit of practise at home won't hurt you and not yelling when trying to dodge things make leave you less winded but otherwise a pretty good score overall." Tessa hoped both girl and parent would be happy with the assesment.