Billy closed his eyes. Great, so much for creating an atmosphere of trust. "Now calm down a moment - if we are to help Kim then we have to trust each other and you all have to trust Skye. That means good and bad!" "So you and Dex are directly descended from Erex, the first Masked Rider," Tommy mused.
          "Yes," Lexian affirmed. "And another interesting point. The various Masked Riders throughout the centuries have worn varying armors, connected only by an insect theme. But Dex- Dex wears the same armor once worn by Erex himself." Her first class ended early, and she figured that was a good thing considering Andros' idle energy. She had already caught him drawing on the arm of his chair and teaching himself to uncap and recap her pen one-handed before he started writing notes to her. He hadn't offered any reason for accompanying her to class in the first place, but she suspected he was trying to prove something.

"Well, that was exciting," Andros remarked, scooping up her backpack as the classroom started to empty out. "Even I lecture better than that professor."

"Andros!" She glanced toward the front of the room automatically, trying not to giggle. "Don't say things like that in here," she warned, gathering up her notebooks when she was satisfied nobody important had overheard.

"Why not?" Andros sounded amused as he preceded her down the aisle and out into the hallway. "It's all the kids behind us could talk about for the first twenty minutes. They were probably right, too."

          "And now Edenoi finds itself throwing off another oppressor, and the battle has come back to the same place," Tommy remarked. "Let's hope that history will repeat itself again."

He looked around moderating his tone "We've all had problems, private, public and with each other." There was a general exchanging of guilty glances.

"Some of them we've worked out...others we have not. Nobody is perfect, and we should expect no-one to be perfect." Billy finished. Tommy still look downcast. Kim stood beside him her expression strained. Fortunately Skye chose that time to enter, looking serene in light pale greys, breaking the building tension. He had been meditating in the other room preparing for the test of his and the Star Crystals abilities.