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A word in the English language that is comprised of the following: the first two letters indicate a male, the first three letters indicate a female, the first four letters indicate something great, and the entire word indicates a great woman.
What is the word?
Noelle frowned for a moment. Her chat window beeped with successive texts from Ginny and Tiger, both expressing their shock at the odd turn of events.
"Now it explains why he's refused everyone so far," Tiger typed.
"But why would he base it on a riddle?" Ginny asked.
Noelle pursed her lips as she regarded her screen. Why indeed. Unless…
"Maybe he is testing us," she offered. "To see if we're a good match. The game does focus on critical thinking. Maybe it's not a matter of level number, but ofmindset."
Everyone was quiet for a while.
"Well, you guys thinkthat. I'm out," Ginny said before she logged off.
Tiger was still online, and Noelle could see him typing and deleting his words before he finally settled on a sentence.
"Maybe we should just give up."
Noelle blinked in surprise. They hadn't even tried yet.
"No," she typed. "I'll try," she said before she could think it through.
Once more, she couldn't stop herself from interfering—and she could definitelynotlet a challenge pass by her.
Taking a moment to herself, she simply repeated the words of the riddle out loud.
"Male. Female. Great. Great woman," she mused, taking her notepad out and scribbling out some letters, her brows furrowed as she tried some combinations.
A beeping sound alerted her to her screen, only to watch Blue give them a salute before walking away.
"Wait," she activated her microphone. "Heroine," she quickly said, though the word had just come to her mind.
He did stop. Turning, the avatar displayed an odd smile as he took a few steps towards them.
"You're the first one to get it right," he chuckled. "I guess that means I'm in?"
"Yes, of course. You're in," Tiger suddenly said, sending Curiouscat a big thumbs up.
"And the team is complete," she breathed out in relief.
"Now what's the first mission?" Blue inquired.
His digitized voice was deep, and a little distorted from the filter he'd used. Still, that coupled with his avatar and his solo achievements sparked Noelle's interest. So much so that she couldn't even be mad at him for his stupid riddle.
As a team, everyone came together and set some rules, among which one stated that they shouldn't give any personal details. Their personal lives were their business. For the team, only what happened in the game mattered.
Soon, they had the perfect routine. Weeks passed, and the four of them would meet daily at the same designated time to play for a few hours. They would chat, fulfill challenges and spar with other teams. It was all fun and Noelle soon found herself entirely immersed in her new virtual reality.
Everything was going better than she'd expected, and though the conversations never strayed into their personal lives, she felt as if she'd made some good friends.
But there was one thing that bothered her.
Blue.
Though she'd been the one to get the riddle right, he'd barely acknowledged it—certainlynotas she'd wanted him to. Instead, every time she proposed something, he opposed it. Every time she suggested a different approach, he had another idea—which, of course, was always best received. So what if his ideas turned out to be the best—it was all given his wealth of experience.
