Fanfic:The Art of the Hunt/Chapter 2-Many Meetings

T aka stared into the roughly composed frame of the high-power telescope he was using to scrutinize monster scale differences as he stood alone in the Academy Laboratory. A devoted student--especially of monster sciences--and a quiet but intelligent person, his favorite location in the whole school was this very room. He also loved being alone at these times; he never felt quite "right" when he was with any peers, and thus, the man kept to himself, mostly absorbed in wyvern genetics and biology theory. The one valiant thought that stayed on his mind was that he knew, somewhere out there, was someone of great importance to him. He didn't know where they were, exactly why they were out there, or even what they were, but he knew they were there... and he knew their name: Relcia. His wife, he thought. . And for many months after his enrollment into the academy, he believed his study would lead him to this person. It is, in fact, why he enrolled; free classes, earned use of the lab, and plenty of samples that he didn't have to gather himself.

It wasn't that he was afraid of monsters; nothing could be further from the truth. He was rather intrigued by them, and he loved them--thus, nothing was further from his thoughts than killing them. Sometimes, he even thought he could understand their speech. He had a pet Yian Garuga, and he could understand her; he realized this when the bird wyvern whispered her name, Stormhawk, into his ear, so many months ago. Just those few hours after him and his wife had been so cruelly separated. He could no longer remember even where they had been before; he thought it was somewhere wonderful, near Moga yet completely different, but his mind wouldn't tell him. So he researched and explored, taking long walks in the unruly and undiscovered mountain valleys to the north of the academy, and walking down the already beaten trails that the school had made for the use of the less socially alert students; those who, like Taka, would rather spend their time walking and learning than partying and drinking.