Wishes

– So... you know me right? – Harumi chuckled – This is your bed, Leila will be here sono, so we can talk and get to know each other more, oh, by chance… her last name is Waterfall, I hope you don't feel uncomfortable.

Celine froze, smiling a little nervously – Why would I feel annoyed? – Then, thinking 'What's with these rendezvous destinations, I just met the King of Waterfall's first disciple, now I'm going to be his daughter's roommate…'

Harumi sat on the edge of the bed and replied – Many people are already aware of this little 'disagreement' between Waterfall and the Northern Kingdom, this is a small fight between these old gentlemen, but don't worry, the best way to resolve it is creating good bonds, you will see, Leila is a great friend.

Celine smiled, taking a seat next to her – You seem to know her well already, are you friends?

– Yes, from the age of six, the Emperor of Yuugen thought it would be good for me to become friends with the Crown Princess of Waterfall.

– I see… – 'It feels really good to have a childhood friend, I don't know if I can just step into that perfect circle of friendship that should exist between them'

Celine started to put away and organize her things, opening her wardrobe, she found three uniforms hanging, they were pretty.

Running her fingers through the fabric, it was as if her energy was extremely renewed, she could get used to it, she would no longer be alone in a room with one desk.

– Harumi, I took some notes that might be useful to you... – The door suddenly opened, a girl with dark blonde hair was staring at them inside the room – This...

Harumi got up and ran to her – Leila! What notes? Are they from the Enchantment class? I suck at this subject – Harumi surrounded the girl, and remembering Celine, who was just staring at them, she said – Celine, this is Leila, Leila! She is our new roommate, Celine, from the Northern Kingdom.

Leila had been smiling from the moment Harumi ran up to her, and discovering now who the stranger was, she greeted her kindly – It's a pleasure to meet you, Celine.

Celine smiled, they had nothing to do with their parents' disagreements, they could be friends if they really wanted to – Equally Leila.

– Harumi must have already said a lot, here, have you got the content these days? Let's go through together – Referring to Harumi, who now had her eyes fixed on the notes brought by Leila – Ah, I almost forgot, Aysel will be coming soon to collect the wishes.

Celine didn't quite understand what she meant by that, 'gathering wishes?' but Harumi, as if awakened from her concentration on the sheet, ran to her desk, grabbing a paper, she moved her eyes under the words written on it and folded it up, putting it in a small envelope right away.

Noting Celine's confusion, Leila explained – It's something we do every beginning of the year, students write a letter wishing another student something good, most of the time it's just 'good luck', but it can be other things too, we do nine days after school starts so that newcomers can fit in and then have someone to send the letter to.

Celine understood, it was just a silly custom among the students themselves, there was no need for 'letters', but it was still a little fun.

– Aysel will pick up the letters that will be sent to the boys' dorm, other veterans will distribute them among the girls' dorms.

Knowing Celine's possible doubt, Leila continued – The teachers trust Aysel a lot, and it's not like any boy would dare to go against her, so she can "walk" through the boys' dorm, well… she and Elaxi, both are veterans and have been doing this for so long that even the director got tired of fighting with them.

Celine showed a strange expression, these two sure held a certain power here.

While they were talking, a knock came from the door, but before any voice could sound the door was opened from the inside, that's right, by Harumi, who couldn't seem to stop jumping in excitement.

The black-haired girl at the door laughed – Alright Harumi, you see him every day, it's just a letter – Harumi handed the letter to Aysel, who opened it and read it carefully, putting it away afterward while staring at Harumi with a look of suspicion, smiling Harumi just replied – No flirting, just a good wish.

Aysel nodded showing that she understood, then looked inside, noticing that the young woman who met her this afternoon was staring at her, she froze, saying after a while – Haha, I'm going, I need to deliver these letters soon, there are a lot of boys waiting for my delivery.

With that said she disappeared, not by any magic, she just left so fast that within seconds she had probably reached the end of the next floor.

Harumi had never seen Aysel nervous, which made her suspicious of the young women behind her and turning around she faced them, Leila just smiled and shrugged her shoulders, therefore leaving only Celine being suspicious of something – Has something happened between you?

– Huh? She just helped me earlier today, I don't know if I did or said something wrong to her – Celine explained, Harumi nodded her understanding and went to help Leila to separate the contents and pass it on to Celine. The minutes passed and the atmosphere was lively among the girls in the room, they talked, discussed some matters, and laughed from time to time.

Meanwhile, outside, a knock sounded at the door of the men's dormitory reception room, the door was opened and a black-haired girl walked in, just pulling letters after letters from a bag she carried on her side, the boys just smiled as they took the letters and thanked the girl, while others asked – Aysel! Is there any mail for me?

Aysel smiled as she took letter by letter and handed them – Here, this is yours! – She passed quickly by them, at this time several boys preferred to stay in the reception room to talk and have fun all together, and with the arrival of Aysel, the reception became a complete mess.

Aysel approached one of the sofas and jumped between two young guys who were sitting there, simultaneously delivering a letter for each, getting up she quickly moved to a table, on it were some cookies, which Aysel shamelessly collected and placed in her bag.

The boys didn't care at all, they already knew her, it was just the new boys who asked why there was a girl here, the veterans just answered without wanting to explain things too much: 'Because it's Aysel'. The beginners just nodded in agreement as they went to their own dorms.

Aysel was going up the stairs, stopping at some doors and knocking to deliver those mails, everything was very exciting.

One of the doors opened and Aysel greeted – Yo Nevra, is Raphael here?

The young man was staring at her with a sleepy look – I think he went to the bathroom, is it some correspondence?

Aysel nodded, pulling out an extensive pile of letters and throwing them into Nevra's arms.

– I'll have to bother you to deliver these letters.

Some boys passing by giggled – What's with all these letters? Since when treating everyone coldly bring more admirers?

Aysel shrugged, just as she was turning to finish her deliveries she heard hurried footsteps coming towards her, followed by a voice she found particularly irritating – Aysel! Is there a letter for me?!

The figure that approached was a young man with medium long hair and dark brown color, he was a little breathless, seeing the state of the young man, a small evil smile was born on the girl's face.

– Sorry Ikuto, but I think Harumi didn't send anything this time.

The boy froze, quickly composing himself he faced Aysel with surprise and shock – What? It's not possible!

There was another boy behind him, this one with beautiful green eyes, who was staring at Aysel with a subtle expression, but in his eyes a look of disapproval, even with that look, Aysel didn't want to let this opportunity pass

– I'm telling you, here, take a look by yourself – She gave her bag to the young man, who took out and read the recipient of each of the letters, the boys who approached took the opportunity to collect theirs, and the young man unconsciously handed them to each of the recipients.

Aysel walked over and stopped beside the green-eyed young man, who held out his hand to her, Aysel held back a laugh as she handed the letter that was hidden in her sleeve to Thamy.

The time passed with the sad-looking young man delivering the letters that were missing for Aysel to deliver, Thamy sighed a little guiltily but ended up covering up the lie of the girl next to him – Ikuto, now that I remembered, Harumi had given me the letter beforehand to deliver it, but as I was busy earlier I ended up forgetting.

Ikuto looked up and ran to Thamy, throwing the bag to Aysel, he reached out and took the letter that was in Thamy's hand – Good thing! It's okay Thamy, I understand – He sighed with relief as he stared at the letter, turning around, he went to the stairs and walked quickly towards his dorm, as soon as his figure disappeared, Aysel couldn't hold back a light laugh.

– Aysel, you can go now too – Thamy put a hand on her shoulder, Aysel smiled with satisfaction and left – See you later.

Thamy stared at the boys watching on the side – Everyone can go back to what you were doing, the room review will be a bit later today.

The boys agreed and quickly disappeared, during all this time only one person remained standing with Thamy, this was Nevra who still sighed with all those letters in his arms, Thamy went to him and helped him hold some, entering they put on the desk of the recipient, Raphael Tasvali.

– There are more than last year – Thamy smiled.

– Really, but it won't do much good as Raphael won't read them – Nevra replied as he threw himself on his bed, and sighing he started to speak – President Thamy, Raphael prefers not to say, but since you're already here, I will, there are some people who insist on disrupting his life and making it harder than it already is, the accident that year had nothing to do with him, and yet he chose to take the blame.

Thamy listened silently.

– Raphael is just an ordinary human, without any powers, how could he magically injure a person? – Frowning Nevra continued as he stared at the ceiling – I'm sure it also has nothing to do with the Tasvali family heirloom, that's just an amulet of protection and good luck, given his family by the First Guardian of the Night, how could they confiscate his heirloom? ...President.

Being called out suddenly, Thamy turned his gaze to Nevra, who was already sitting facing him – I know you've been investigating, and I also know that you know that there is something here that is very dangerous and that is randomly attacking some students.

Thamy sighed – Yes, it was confirmed by the Principal, it's probably an evil aura existing in the school that attacks two or three students a year, that's what I've discovered so far.

Nevra lowered his eyes, muttering – The teachers and the Principal already know, but are they just letting this creature feed on the students' powers?

Thamy nodded slightly, leaning against the table with his arms crossed – From the Principal's perspective it's just a few students with low aura and power, this thing only attacked a maximum of three students a year, so he doesn't take it too seriously and just say that it is because of the student's low defense capacity that he has lost his power, when that happens the Principal just sends the student back home with compensation to the family, it is much cheaper than investigating a creature that apparently feeds of 'powers'.

Narrowing his eyes, Nevra says – They would rather sacrifice the students than themselves, and they still blamed Raphael, even though they knew it was this creature.

– That accident happened at a very eye-catching moment, all the others were always lurking in the dark, and that daylight scared everyone at school, the Principal chose to blame one of the students instead of saying that there is actually a creature bleak living under the same roof as everyone else, no one else would come to Kesla if something like that got out – Thamy explained, a creak brought the two boys who were just discussing reality, at the door, there was a young man of apparently 18 or 19 years old, his clothes were messy, the young man looked coldly at the green-eyed man, there was a small bruise on the side of his face, which made both Nevra and Thamy frown.

– What happened to your face? – Thamy asked as he approached.

The young man avoided him and went to his desk, sitting down he replied coolly while his back was turned – I won't bother the president with that and it's none of your business either.

Turning to face Thamy he continued – Good night President, and since you were here I hope you have already searched the room so you don't have the trouble of coming again.

Thamy stared at him a little stunned, still showing signs of concern, Nevra who watched his colleague's actions tried to say something, but without much success, realizing the uncomfortable situation they were in, Thamy sighed and smiled – Okay, there's nothing to hide here anyway, Felipe and Matheu still haven't returned?

Nevra responded quickly – By this time they should probably be leaving the library, they'll be here soon, thanks for the help president.

Thamy nodded – Sleep early boys, the first few days are always a little tiring, get a good night's sleep.

With that he took one last look at Raphael who was still staring at him, meeting his gaze and unavoidably noticing the small wound on the other's face, he became even more distressed, Raphael turned his face, lowering his head he began to read some letters…or at least pretend to read them. Thamy left, leaving only the two boys in the dorm.

Raphael sighed – What were you talking about?

– Oh... nothing special – Nevra replied.

Raphael got up and tossed the letters on his desk into a bag, dropping it in a corner before lying down and covering himself, as Nevra wouldn't tell him anything, he'd just go to sleep then. Nevra watched him for a while before doing the same.

Outside, Thamy was walking towards his dorm when he bumped into a boy, there was another one with him, recognizing them, Thamy said – Felipe, Matheu, I already looked at your room, you can just go to sleep.

The two looked at him nodding in agreement, before they left Thamy spoke again – Felipe, take a look at Raphael, he has a bruise on his face.

– Again…Thanks, senior Thamy, I'll help Raphael with this – Felipe replied, and they both ran towards the bedroom.

Entering his own dorm, what he found was three boys sitting on the floor, one bright blond, one with light brown hair, and Ikuto, surrounded by books, notebooks, and papers.

Ikuto who was facing the door waved – Thamy! We're doing the metrics transformation work, you can join us if you want.

Thamy smiled as he walked to his own desk – I've already done it, I have a notebook that can help you if you want...

All three boys stared at him with eyes shining – If you insist – One of the other two, who had brown hair said – This is not cheating anyway, light?

Thamy handed them the notebook and grabbed a book to read while the boys focused on their notes and chatted among themselves discussing work.

– Ikuto, isn't it time to search the rooms? – Thamy spoke when he saw that the boys had already finished their activities, Ikuto stood up with the other two – Okay, we're going now.

– You don't need to search Raphael's room, I've already done it.

The three nodded as they left. Then, talking with each other:

– Drazhan, I heard that your brother doesn't let go of that little magician healer, he follows him everywhere, did he by any chance make a contract with him? Of protection or something like that... – The one with brown hair asked.

– I don't exactly know if that was it, but Matheu just told me he had made a friend. So... he's a healer? Matheu has never had many friends, I'm glad he has someone, since he moved a few days ago to Nevra's dorm, he has apparently been happier – The blond-haired man replied, this was Drazhan, son of a noble family from Baria's capital, Eglad, his brother Matheu was a year younger, and now, after some disagreements with his former colleagues, he has moved to another dormitory, coincidentally the dormitory of the three most antisocial youths in Kesla.

The brown-haired one laughed – These four can be antisocial together now.

Ikuto and Drazhan also laughed – Hiro, you are a terrible person, did you know that?

They chatted as they searched the rooms, returning long afterward to rest.