Escator, Democratic Union of Aviye
Zai
"Please train me!"
"No."
"Please train me!"
"Rui, no!" Zai said for what felt like the thousandth time as she carried Rui under her arm away from her latest search and rescue mission. They were on the street near the outskirts of Escator. Zai had just finished dealing with a higher-than-normal autumn flood under a steel grey sky.
She'd lessened the flooding after Amri discovered someone with knowledge about a dried-up drainage basin to the north of the city. Zai had to manually dig up and remove the concrete barrier, barely accomplishing it before Rui showed up trying to help.
Ever since Zai saved her, Rui had turned from an angry victim to a thorn in Zai's side.
