The Bell rings
Most of the seat, already taken.
A sound of shoe, tapping the floor.
Slowly, growing closer, to the center of the podium. His gait perfect, full of elegance.
He fix his tuxedo, making it neat. His long white hair, combed perfectly. Flowing to his chest.
He's being doing this for years now, every new face, every new hope, he welcome it with open arms.
Well.... in the perfect world, that is
Unfortunately, this world, is not soo perfect
Yes, he'll open his arms, widely at that
After all, more student, more money
He can keep his little kingdom, and the youngster can learn
Win - win
That's why, in occasion like this, he give's his best speach
To welcome them, to thank them, for choosing his academy
The ever prestige
And so he begins
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"Welcome student, to the greatest, learning place in the continent"
That's all Altaris hear
The rest, went over his head, completely
His brain gear, moving, churning
Racking his brain, for a plan, to bypass, without the need to warn the queen piece.
But every attemp end up in failure
There is always a hole, a fault, a missing puzzle piece
He got to know the anomaly, the last key
Or he doomed to play savely, for entirety of academy
And he can't allow that
"What to do, what to do"
He murmured
The girl on his right, Violet, also thinking.
For completely different reason that is.
Her body, fidgeting, her brain moving at full capacity
Trying to escape this hell call boredom
"What the fuck is this old man saying"
She thought
Right now, her sense of shame, is gone. With the wind. She hug his hand tightly, her head resting in his sholder.
Prompting a few glance around them
For male, jelousy, for female, a perfect fuel for gossip
Knitted by their own narative and fantasy
Violet don't care tho. She bored, she'll do whatever she wants
The only thing interest her from the speech is schedule, and living system
Schedule, so she can be his perfect secretary
Living system, cause a rumour she heard. They say you can by your own little home, for comfort, for secrecy
that is if you have enough credit
And if the romour proves to be true
All of her training, to be a perfect housewife, will come to frutition
Ah... she is excited. Beyond excited
"Credits...."
Hearing them, their ears pearked, ready to save everyword that came out of principle mouth
"We'll call it chael. This academy, own currency, it can buy everything, from service, living place to books and tome. Everything in this academy, can be brought, even your loyalty. You can exhange outside currency to chael, but you can't turn chael to other currency, its a one way exchange, so use it wisely"
"Incase you run out of chael, you have one week to obtain it. The minimum amount of chael in your name can't be less then 10. If in one week you failed to gather it, you'll be kicked out of the academy"
"Everything, outside of scheduled time determined by academy is free. You can learn as you wish, you can train as you wish, you can work as you wish, or you can play as you wish. We here to teach you, not to restrained you. Your standing in academy is determined by ranking, the higher the rankings, the better treatment you get. Rankings will be detemined by the amount of chael you have combined by your performance in various test, that will be conducted with or without your knowledge"
"Everything will be recorded by the dome, each one of you. Your move, your data, your achievment even your misdead. It will also record the amount of chael you have, make it impossible to steal. Chael can only be transfered willingly, i repeat willingly"
"Last thing, inside this dome,you will be immortal. You can play as rough as you can, and death will never claim you. But... this protection only exist inside the dome, outside, you are out of our protection and responsibilty. Every time you die, we will take your chael, as a sign for incompetence. So dont throw your life carelessly"
Then the speach continue, the contents, adequate, but not as important as the point mention above.
After that, they are dismissed. The schedule will be sent tomorrow. Each of them, walk, to the temporary dorm, for them only has 20 chael tide to their name.
But for violet, she is jumping excitedly, litterally dragging Altaris to the chael exchange center. She exchange so much it's enough to buy 5 large cottage.
Alas she only buys one, a home not to large and not to small. The place, is far enough from the tower of the first, the place where they'll learn.
About 20 minutes walk.
Altaris want it closer, but she insist. She wants to enjoy walking with him.
And he got no says in it
Now, she is his sugar mommy
That's why boys, u need to make sure you make more money then your mate
So you got more say in the relationship
Remember we are creature of pride and lust
We bound to be pridefull
Anyway, back to them
The place is cozy, with 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom, one living room, one kitchen and one dining room. Standard, comfy, and easy to clean
And once again, Violet, with confidence, knowing she got the last say, insist, to change the other bedroom, to dressing room
A place they put their wardrobe on
Thats means, their bedroom, from two, become one
They gonna sleep together, TOGETHER
Well well before you said, "both of them are minors, they only 15"
Well first, fuck you and your 21st century morality
Its medieval based fantasy story, with MAGIC for fuck sake
Don't you dare debate me about morality
Heck even kids back then have more responsibilty, no fuck and run thing
They dress properly, meet properly, then merried properly.
Well, in the end of the day, if u don't like it, can't do anything about it. My mind is set on medieval like setting, i'll embrace it fully
Anyways, enough ranting, back to the story
Realizing what's coming, Altaris mind become, erratic
All of his plans gone the drain, away, far away from his mind
Silently, he can't wait to know what would happen tonight