"Congratulations, you completed the exam with five minutes and thirteen seconds left." The girl spoke, echoing throughout the clearing like an intercom.
Ronan shook off the pile of rocks and sat up. The whole maze melted away, revealing a grey undercoat that enveloped Ronan and his cat. Small details and colors tinted the grey, morphing it into a bright room. The same grey room he'd been forced to enter by Red.
"Thank God..." He sighed.
"Unfortunately, I am having troubles in giving you a proper rank. So am I permitted to ask you a few questions?"
"Rank?" Ronan's tone twisted to caution, still shaking with fear. "Sure..."
"How much experience with lumience do you have?"
Ronan took a moment to remember what lumience was. "I jumped off a cliff without going splat... And I turned a purple stick translucent..."
The girl chuckled cynically, continuing with her questions. "What is your fighting style?"
"Fighting style?"
"Yes, I found yours odd. In a sense of your recklessness and extreme panic."
Panicked? He thought. What reason did he have not to panic?
"I was being chased by half a dozen giant stone wolves, what did you expect me to do? Smile cheerfully while running for my life?! Those things were trying to kill me!"
"Kill you?" The girl said through choked laughter. "You thought they were trying to kill you!?"
"Well... Yeah. The sign said eliminate, and that last molve was...." He scrunched up his brow in confusion, thinking about the gooey purple tongue that had nearly violated his face for all eternity. "That last molve was pretty freaky..."
It was his assumption that when a giant ferocious looking creature starts chasing you, it wants to kill you. In terms of common sense, it was a pretty good one.
She finished her laughing fit, then cleared her throat. "The molve was trying to lick you, that's how you get eliminated. We do not allow our molves to attack any of our applicants with fatal intent, that only happens when hiring some of our staff or elites. Any bodily harm sustained during this test was caused by your actions alone."
Ronan open his mouth to protest, but no words came out. Looking back at the exam, the molves hadn't caused him any harm, and the licking would explain why the last molve decided to snake its tongue out and drip its saliva onto his nose, but why licking?
"Now, about your fighting style." The girl continued. "Because you defeated two molves with lightly empowered daggers, one with the entrance examination sign; of all my applicants that was a first." She made a noise equivalent to clicking her tongue. "And then here's the best part, you utterly decimated three by overloading a flashlight with a fireball... A flashlight."
"I guess my fighting style was close combat and a lot of luck." Ronan folded his arms. "And you call that thing a flashlight? It's more like a multi-purpose hand grenade!"
"Hand grenade? I'm not sure what that is, but if you're referring to its explosive attributes there are better, and safer, ways to cause an explosion of that magnitude... Trust me." The girl pondered her next question, throwing it out like she was reading off a list. "What is your native tongue?"
"English and some French."
"Alright..." Her hum of approval stopped dead as she let out a choked cough. "English? Where are you from?"
"Canada?" Ronan said, yet again remembering he wasn't on Earth anymore.
"You're from Earth? How did you get here?"
This was his chance, whoever that girl was she could know a way to get him back home, all he had to do was explain his predicament. "I was kidnapped."
"Kidnapped? By who?"
"Red." Even with the evil smirk plastered to his face, his irritation leaked through his voice at the thought of that name.
The girl sighed. "Blonde demon spawn. Anyways, despite the fact you successfully completed the exam, due to your inexperience with lumience your current rank is B. Here's your slip."
A blue slip materialized in front of Ronan's face and he threw his hands out a couple times to catch it. A large black B was plastered in the middle of it, followed by the words first year and his name in small print. The fearful lump formed in the back of his throat again. "Actually, I don't plan on staying here, do you know how to get back to Earth?"
The girl hummed disapprovingly. "Unfortunately I can't help you. Trans-world travelling is rare, you'll have to talk to Red about how he got to Earth in the first place."
There was a dry click as white lines crawled across the wall opposite of Ronan, forming the shape of two rectangles. Silver colouring filled in the shapes, morphing the rectangles into the double doors Ronan had entered through. "There's the way out. In the meantime, please consider attending Cobalt to try it out... And you should get that concussion and your other injuries healed."
"Thanks." Ronan whimpered, rubbing the dried blood clinging to the back of his head off with a sigh. He stuffed the blue slip into his pocket and reached to open the door, but stopped. "Oh! Wait." He slid his hand into his other pocket to remove the sack of smoke balls, but they had vanished along with any dust or pebbles that had been clinging to his uniform.
The girl made a questioning hmm towards Ronan, and he turned his head, falling back into the dark pit of contemplating his current situation. "Never mind."
He pushed open the silver doors, walking into the lobby that was now shady to his eyes that had been exposed to the lucid grey room. Red was leaning against the wall and intercepted him on his way out.
"So? How'd it go?"
Ronan glared at Red, cautiously keeping his distance. The last thing he wanted was to be taken control of by him again. "Take me back."
Red looked at him blankly and tilted his head to the side. "Back? Back where?"

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Chapter 119.2
After scaling a few levels of the roof, they found a cracked window and slipped into an empty guest room, the door to the hall barely ajar to show its lack of a guest.Veronica could see the sliver of a guard's shadow to the left, her hopes withering as she looked back to the window they had come through. But her gaze fell on the boy instead as he whispered a spell into his cupped hands, a small butterfly glowing with golden light fluttering from his palms and out the door.There was a small commotion as the guard to the left spoke with another one, two pairs of footsteps following the enchantment until they grew silent. The boy lead the mission, tiptoeing through the empty corridor until they rounded a corner to face two guards sitting at the end of the hall.Veronica swallowed her gasp, confused as the boy continued to lead her up to them. She heard a noise when they'd gotten close enough, one of the guards letting out a soft snore as his head drooped against the second guard using
Chapter 119
Veronica sat on her bed, stuffed like a spring hen but still buzzing with birthday energy. She had only played with one of her gifts throughout the night, a dinged up wooden dagger that she'd managed to hold away from her mother until the gazes of the guests forced her to allow the gift to remain in her hands. She had looked for Mr. Bunny afterwards to show him her new prize, but Horus had informed her of his early departure.She knew that they had planned for today to be their last, but the disappointment lingered nonetheless. She still had one last gift she had hoped to give him.Veronica sighed, grabbing for a fairytale on her shelf instead of the books that had piled from Jackling's tutoring. She had gotten a few new stories to read Cinder before bed, but the phoenix had taken a particular liking to the golden lettering of one title."The Adventures of Locke Lanbrellhande..."She stopped at the small tap that met her ears, glancing at the side of her bed where Cinder was still per
Chapter 118
It was all wrong.The corridor was too tight. The guards were too close. Too tall.It was too cold, suffocating.He was meant to be in the room to at least give him some time to think."Are you alright?"The boy snapped to the voice. What was a blink to him, was long enough to land him on the ground, palms to the floor to keep his entire body from shaking. He didn't know how long he had blanked out for, but the king had taken a knee to come closer to him, washed with concern as a few of the surrounding guards hovered over the scene to see where they could offer help."Come lad, can you stand?"His gut twisted at the way he tried to help him up, but with Vera bracing his other side he couldn't very well squirm away from the king. He doubted that he'd even have the energy if he decided to. But he knew now with the scene he'd caused that he would have to respond with more than a nod.Cilvren would have had his translational enchantments up to date, but there was a standing risk of a few
Chapter 117.2
It had been a little over an hour since the nosy boy named Horus had been dragged off. But the silence finally let him work without prying eyes. The size of the pants had allowed him to stitch pockets inside, just big enough for a dagger to hide beneath the folds on either side. Horus had likely thought he was being smart when he hid his old clothes and daggers from him, but the presence of magic in the air always escaped Lumer senses.He pulled them out of a pile of blankets, finding the rest of his trinkets and the invitation to shove in his pockets. With some hesitation, he bounced the black spool of string in his palm, staring at the shiny silver needle and pocketing the whole thing. He had to be preapred to use anything.Hopefully Veronica wouldn't miss the small thing, nor the black cloak he found in her wardrobe.Blue crystals twinkled at his fingertips as he traced his hand down the cloak. He just needed to be invisible from a distance for a few minutes. Most of the guards had
Chapter 117
It was the end of the painfullest slumber party in history.Veronica had exorcised her birthday immunity to raid a closet of nearly all its bedsheets, and prop them up as a haphazard blanket fort in her room. It was the perfect mess for the boy to hide in when someone walked in without knocking, but also a tight fit when it came time for sleeping.Veronica had been ushered away at the crack of dawn for the maids to prepare her outfit, which left the boy in Horus' care. He had to get the two of them ready, and hope to the gods that the boy picked up at least half of the common Latos mannerisms he had taught him. But all of that was to the side as Horus stared at the boy tucked into a corner of the blanket fort.Horus didn't know what was weirder. The way he held a few flowered bauble pins out the side of his mouth as he sewed, or the fact that he looked like a seasoned seamstress as he cinched the waist on a pair of pants Veronica had swiped from Adrian. The cut was tall enough for him
Chapter 116.3
The door opened, the boy squatting lower into the tub as Veronica peeked in. She flaunted the tiny beginner's book like a sack full of slivs, tiptoeing up to the tub with a devilish smile."I found it.""You don't have to whisper, we put up a sound block enchantment.""You guys have to teach me!" Veronica piped. She quickly landed on the bar of soap in Horus' hands, putting two and two together at the suds popping in the boy's hair. "Horus, that's soap.""Yeah...""That won't do, it makes your hair all icky." She grabbed a tray full of mysterious pots, smearing at least five of the creams together before her mysterious concoction was complete.No amount of dodging could save the boy from being her test dummy, but the smug way he simply let Veronica rub the bubbly concoction into his hair irked Horus to no end. She grabbed some more of the secret spread, only stopping when not a single black hair could be send through the froth of rose bubbles on his head."You're never going to smell
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