Marisse closed Lucavion's record, returned the remaining profiles to their folder, and left the representative line untouched.
The name she had considered required more than a moment of private satisfaction before she committed it to Academy record.
She set the wager file beneath two placement reviews and left her office.
The faculty wing had grown more crowded during the afternoon. Assistants carried finalized rankings between offices, students waited beside doors with registration notices in hand, and two instructors argued quietly over which remedial course should inherit an already overfilled classroom.
Marisse moved through them without slowing. She still had correspondence awaiting her seal in the western offices.
The candidate remained less cooperative in her thoughts.
