Astra had spent her morning with her head buried in the books, being in training to become a solider was not only physical training with Mace but a good amount of book smarts as well. Astra sat there for hours forcing herself to go threw every book she could find on weapons or armour that the library carried and when she finally finished she had a slight headache and her patiences had gotten fairly shorter. She placed the books back in their place and made a promise to herself to make this a daily routine after class with Mace to come here and study then till she knew them cover to cover. With a nod to the liberian and her bag over her shoulder Astra left the library ready to head back to the house, her eyes followed every guard as they walked past her and she had to keep telling herself that one day she would be one as well.

She took the short cut past Lake Lillith to get home and was soon happy she did, as she got closer to the lake she could hear the voice of someone she highly disliked. Tarquin and his gang of morons. She could spot another male among them but had very little clue as to who he was, all she knew was this couldn't be good. She could hear Tarquin's voice as he spoke to the boy. "Come on now Beakface! You have to have some clue has to who he is!" She could hear his gang of moron's laughing and chiming in their own "Yah" or some sort of weird sounding tweets. Astra stood there our of sight shaking her head with a sad look on her face, she knew what it was like being on the receiving end of Tarquin's jokes. He had laid his sights on her when she first moved here but now Astra was learning to stand up for herself and he had loosened up on his attacks on her but clearly this boy was still getting the full brunt of Tarquin's jokes. She took a step closer and heard his next words, "He must of been a right loser, I mean he clearly didn't even wanna deal with raising you. He must have ran the minute he found out about you" They all stood there laughing and the blood that ran threw Astra's veins boiled with anger.

She could not believe the words coming out of Tarquin's mouth and was not willing to just sit here and let it continue, she let her feet carry her over coming right up behind Tarquin before his gang could have noticed but the boy would have seen her coming. "You know Tarquin I thought we had a little chat about picking on people." A smirk made it's way to Astra's lips as she watched Tarquin jump in surprise before rounding on her, the gang scattered around them as the red haired girl moved around Tarquin placing herself in front of the other boy forcing Tarquin to back away from him. "Come on now Kitten, we were just having a little fun with him. Doesn't surprise me you'd come to his rescue seeing as neither of your parents wanted you." The smirk dropped right off of Astra's face as she took a step closer to Tarquin watching as his eyes widened at the look of hatred that crossed Astra's face. "Why you little scumbag, you think your funny don't you. Does it make you feel more like a man to say that. Do you feel stronger than me now Tarquin. News flash scum." In one quite movement Astra grabbed Tarquin by the shirt and lifted him right off the ground watching as his feet kicked around trying to find solid ground but Astra didn't let up. "The words that come out of your mouth don't make you anymore of a man. You'll never be anything more than a low life scumbag. Now run along before i sent you to your parents with a broken nose you shit."

Astra dropped him on his ass and huffed turning her attention to the boy behind her the emotions of anger fading from her face. "You okay?" She stood there arms by her side the bag somehow still on her shoulder and her eyebrow slightly raised at the boy in questions. She knew how she used to feel when Tarquin came around and was curious to see if he felt like that now.