"Wake up Mai"
"Mmmm…. I'm awake."
Unlike normally Mai instantly awoke when she heard her roommate call out to her, excitement was clearly visible on her face as well as Venessas.
Today was the day.
Outside on the usually empty practice field stood countless horse drawn carriages currently being organized by the countless teachers that would be accompanying the academies students, even as the sun had barely risen above the horizon they had been working for a while to undertake the momentous task that was the yearly expedition. But a lot of people normally present for the expedition were nowhere to be found, knights and monster hunters normally instrumental for such an operation were not needed this year, instead thin presences moved around the caravan, barely noticed by the most experienced mages and knights along the teachers.
"I wonder what is currently watching over us?"
"I think we're better off not knowing.. Anyway do you have the manifest for this carriage?"