Twenty years before the current events of the Narrative.
The Bells of a 15 story tall clock, plainly called the "The Big Clock of Natovis" could be heard ringing six times. At the same time Eleenyas alarm clock beeped and showed six o'clock in the morning. She finally hit the snooze button after it went off for 30 seconds.
She got out of bed and began her morning routine. She was ready and out the door within an hour and walked leisurely to her class.
The Extraordinary Eleenya Cosmosteeya had everything going for her.
She was beautiful, intelligent, and well loved by her family and friends. She was a student of the University of Natovis.
She was in the final year of her studies studying a discipline similar to statistics and economy.
The actual name of it is not really important, but the class she was headed to was one of her less technical classes, an exception to the others, and more of about having an intuition and understanding of models she had been studying the past 4 years.
Just like any student who studies in a field related to this one, the practical understanding of what she was studying was never given to her. That is what reading learning things on ones own time is for.
She arrived to the lecture hall, and sat down among her peers.
The professor was a crazy looking man. He had full head of long white scraggly hair and an patchy grey beard. His not so well groomed facial hair made him look older than he probably was.
Other than his facial hair and locks making him appear unkept, he wore a well fitted waistcoat, the most common fashion among the acedemics of Natovis.