Right now, we were only a few facilities and homes from the canal system and luckily for us, the cadets stayed at the same place Artem and the rest were. They just didn't know where to go at the moment but funnily enough, Kuzma came with them and was more excited for the tour than everybody else.
Besides that, Mimi already told me that Ben and Cass met with her in this place's DDR Camp to take up some jobs though she did leave a little early because of our introduction to Amy. Furthermore, a few of our Russian friends were accompanying Alexander in the hospital and they were just letting him sleep for the moment before Marisha dropped by.
We can't just start his therapy of sorts while he was still like a bruised hotdog, so it was better for him to get enough sleep and nutrients before anything else.
In any case, we introduced the people with me to Amanda who was our resident mushroom farmer, Derek who was the guy who takes care of our animals, Juan who was our resident DJ from the radio station, Unc Zeidrick who just happened to be fishing in our fishing ponds and was just whatever about seeing me back, and a few more others along the way.
But yeah, the cadets never looked so excited from seeing the covered court that we turned into a place where we could do parkour, our indoor gun range that was behind it, and our recently built gym for the public's use. We actually built a few gyms here and there but it would be much better to make the biggest one with the space provided so it could house a lot of exercise-minded people.
I wouldn't mind sharing my gym on the third floor but we can't house a few thousand all at the same time even if we give them 2-hour timeslots.
Besides, I need to be a little more selfish regarding my home because not everyone should just come in and work out if they wanted to. With friends and family, sure, no problem, but strangers that came in for the first time in my fold? Not a fucking chance because I would just tell them to do bodyweight exercises or run laps around my territory.
JP then turned to me, "The gun range... Umm... How many times in a day could we use it?"
Chloe also followed excitedly, "I-I wanna know too! You said you'll teach me, right?!"
I chuckled, "Hmm~ You can use it pretty much once every single day but you'd have to be mindful of the bullets you're using. Aside from picking up the cases not only from using the range but also from our runs outside, you'd also have to help out all around because even though I could make bullets, the materials for them are getting harder and harder to find.
We still have a pretty good stock but even I go through a box of ammo like that *snaps fingers* if I get too into it."
The cadets exclaimed at almost the same time, "You can make b-bullets?!/ WHAT?!/ For real?!"
Rin interjected, "That reminds me, the president sent us more raw materials to process and a press they acquired for us to make our own casings but so far, I've only tumbled all of our used ones and asked Oscar to make the projectiles. Unfortunately, a few casings for our 9mms and .22 LRs are cracked so they couldn't be used anymore..."
Quinn muttered from behind, "She sounds fun. I probably need a few retouches too—"
Daisy then turned to her, "You got ink, ma?"
"Did you just call me—"
"Ma? Yeah? You're very momma-coded so— Ah. I'm sorry—"
"Nah. I kinda like the sound of that. Less creepy than mommy."
"Hah! Riiiight~" Daisy trailed as she glanced at me for a moment, "Anyway, do you just want a retouch or do you want something new?"
"What do you got though?"
"Oh? I got a few portfolios but you can just look at me."
At this point, Daisy just unzipped her hoody and showed them the rest of her vibrant tattoos that definitely made Chloe and Megan eager to have one done on their unblemished skin. However, I did promise Daisy that Kaley and I were supposed to have matching tattoos done by her and we pretty much avoided her advances to ink our bodies.
Though Kuzma already thought of a design for himself:
"Can you do wings on me?"
Daisy turned to scan Kuzma's whole body before nodding, "I haven't seen you before but yeah, I can do wings. Just on your back or—"
"Can it start in my back and end by my wrists? Also, I don't want feathers. Can you make them assorted blades or just pieces of metal that form the wings instead?"