"It might!" Sara insists, and she feels a burst of triumph as it bumps to a stop. A few feet down the road, Sara can hear the faint echo of groans and some of the other recruits start trudging towards the bus.

Sara turns to Sakura and grins, before she makes her way onto the bus, greeting the driver with a cheery "Hello!"

She tries to mask her disappointment with her perkiness, in fact. Inside, the bus is ten times hotter in the confined space. She had thought there'd be air conditioning. As she climbs into one of the front seats, glancing over her shoulder at Sakura, she reaches up to wrench one of the windows down. It's not much, but it's better than nothing.

"So what made you sign up for this?" she asks the other girl, as she does.