Out Of Uniform

Lapins Van Montmorency sighed as she stepped from the platform of her ship, followed by a pair of angelic guards as she bundled herself against the slight chill of the wind.

She cut a princely figure in a uniform of deep black edged with Montmorency red - a color made from using dye made from the kingdom's cherries. Silver buttons completed the look, as well as a cloak of silver-grey lined on the inside with black mink fur.

She sighed because she'd held out some hope that she'd be able to put off getting summoned back home from the Academy, but the assassination attempt had put her parents on edge, and the disappearance of Kordia and Kassin had been the straw that broke the dragon's back. So as soon as the equinox holiday ended, she left her friends and colleagues behind to take a boat back home.