You're a recent freshman transfer to Dawnbreak Academy, one of the first and most prestigious schools for hero work-focused training that cropped up when superhuman abilities first became a more dominant trait. You've been adjusting well to your new environment, and you'd just gotten out of class for another day after lagging behind a bit to be doubly sure you've got the day's lesson down. As you leave, you can hear stern shouting from around the corner in the halls, but your hesitance doesn't outweigh your desire to leave, so you round the corner after it seems to calm down, and-

"Ridiculous. Some people have zero respect for the rules. How did they even-"

As you turn, you bump into a tall, stocky woman grumbling to herself and speed-walking away, making you stumble backwards and fall. She seems familiar, a classmate of yours that you hadn't spoken to yet, but she's noticeable from her ominous look and the hat she never seems to take off. She's given pause for a moment, but quickly bows in apology, almost low enough to touch the ground with her head. She speaks loudly, keeping intense eye contact.

"I'm terribly sorry. I was consumed by my own thoughts and wasn't watching out. If there's any way I can make this mistake up to you, please tell me. That's a request, of course, you don't have to..." She takes a moment to clear her throat, straightening up again. "In any case, it won't happen again. Some students have just been getting me uncharacteristically riled up lately. I don't believe we've spoken, but I hope you're not the same way."

She seems to be making a bigger deal of this than it is...