The results went up at the seventh hour, on the same pale stone board with iron lettering that had carried every posted result since second year. You came to it. It did not come to you.
Vane read his name at the seventh hour sharp.
Strategic Arcana: A. Threat Classification: A-. Rowan's note on Section 3: Unclassified extreme designation is irregular. It is also accurate. Mana Systems Theory: B+. Pre-Consolidation History and Doctrine: A. Beneath it, smaller, appended rather than printed with the rest: Archive Consultation Requested.
Around him, the corridor filled with the particular noise of a semester ending — students comparing marks in loud relieved voices, someone laughing too hard at a joke that wasn't especially funny, the specific release of a hallway that had spent four months holding its breath and had finally been told it could stop.
