Crystalline Constellations

S1 E2: Rings of Shards [Part 1/2]

What the Season 1 opening title sequence song would sound like in this:

In the main reception area at the university, its secretary promptly picked up the phone from its cradle upon hearing it ring and placed the reciever up to her left ear.

"Hello, how may I help you?"

"Oh, hi. This is Jennifer Integra. I've just called to... oh god... one moment..." Jenny, on the other end of the phone line, responded, faking an illness as, for a moment, she played a vomiting sound effect from her computer and held the phone further away to make it sound as if she was actually throwing up. "...I've rang you up just to tell you that I won't be able to come in today. I was throwing up all night, I have pain in my stomach and I'm very hot right now. I think I've got a stomach bug and I need to stay at home just for today."

"Alright. I understand. I'll tell your tutors to let them know about the situation and that you'll be in tomorrow then." The secretary responded.

"Okay, thanks. Bye."

As soon as she'd hung up the phone, the anime-loving girl stopped breathing heavily and glanced once again at the gemstone placed on her bedside table. In the last 2 minutes since she made the discovery that she'd created a piece of ice with nothing but her bare hand, Jen had decided to pretend to be sick so that she could skive off from uni just for that one day so that she could learn more about her newfound abilities and practice them.

So many unanswered questions, and just one day to try and decipher at least some of them. And no one to turn to, either, as they'd either think one of 2 things:

1) That she was insane

2) or they'd report her to the university for skiving off and she'd be in HUGE trouble.

At that moment, she honestly couldn't decide which scenario would be worse than the other.

But she pushed any brooding over whether she'd get caught skiving or be seen trying to use these new powers (or both) and what the consequences would be out of her head and decided not to focus on the future and what could be, as that hasn't happened yet and wasn't written in stone, and instead just live in the moment and concentrate on the present, as that would determine every single one of the next events.

And, living in this moment, she remembered that it was a weekday, so she was also due at work in 7 and a half hours, and therefore picked up her mobile phone again and, becoming nervous again, prepared to do the same again but with her boss from the local library: pretending to be having a stomach bug and be too incapacitated to go to work.

It had only taken about 30 seconds of repeating this phone call when it was over and she was now truly free to skive off from all of the places she needed to be that day, to uncover the mysteries of the gem and the strange abilities it seemed to have bestowed upon her.

Once she was fully dressed, Jenny exited her room and went into the lounge instead, sitting herself down at her computer to do her daily check for notifications on the websites she used and reading some recent news articles on the BBC website. But one article in particular, the one right at the very top, making it appear to be the most urgent, caught her attention: