t was hot.  The sun beat down from a remorselessly cloudless sky and the air was so dry it made Tori's eyes ache.  Heat she was accustom to, having grown up in hotter climes.  But where she was from the heat went hand and hand with humidity and this arid but scorching weather was wearing her out.  She had been away from that place for over a year now and this was the first time she had thought about it in anything regarding something that might possibly be a favorable light.  

But humidity or no humidity she was better off here.  Wasn't she? Lorelei wasn't perfect but... No buts.  She took better care of her than anyone else ever had.  That had to mean something even if sometimes Vitória felt uneasy and trapped.  It was just... the product of her traumatizing childhood.  That's all it was. This brisk walk around the campus at the hottest part of the day was just to get rid of that nervous energy she had been dealing with all day.  Lunch break was just the only time she had to work that out of her system.

Her stomach complained slightly as she burned calories instead of consuming them.  Although she had a lunch in the staff room fridge she just didn't want to deal with people right now, hence pushing herself to walk faster under the sun's pitiless rays.  No one in their right mind would be going for what amounted to a power walk, on an empty stomach, in business casual attire.  

Sweat dampened her brow and made the fine hairs at the nape of her hairline stick to her neck.  A bead of moisture ran down her jaw and she slowed slightly so as not to sweat through her work clothes enough to stink later.  As she slowed her gate, however, Tori misstepped and turned her ankle on the slightly uneven turf under her feet.  Before she knew it she was falling.