The rain was pouring down, the sounds of water droplets hitting the roof, window and ground was the background of our afternoon. The dark cloudy sky made it so that we had to turn the lights on. Currently we were all on the floor playing a game of cards, the game? It was one of the old classics, spoon.
We were all flipping and passing cards around with high speed and it was a test of observation skills and multitasking. While trying to get four of a kind yourself so you could win you have to keep an eye on the other players. With my cheat on there is no way I could loose. Instinct on passive I could sense every little movement.
Passing on a two of diamonds I sensed one person, not sure who but they were about to pick up a pen so my hands shot out and picked up a pen of my own, Anastasia shot me a glare at the realisation of my cheat but I shot a smirk right back at her. Everyone else eventually got a pen in the next 3 seconds and who ended up loosing? It was Dominic who's reaction time was too slow.
"New rule, no use of potentials,"
Anastasia announced.
"You cheater!"
Dominic said to me while narrowing his eyes.
"You sore looser"
I said right back at him, hitting that spot right in the middle. His fist tightened and I made it worse by sticking my tongue out.
"Again, from the start"
Dominic said still staring at me.
"Fine,"
I got the cards and shuffled them twice before handing out four cards to each person. Before we could start another game a knock on the door sounded and Eleanor got up to go see who it was. She looked out the little eye and then opened the door to let the person in. Brushed back black hair, chiseled face, with hollow cheeks and a smile that seemed as natural as green leaves on a tree and a mono eye lid. It was Yuri. He stepped inside and took off his shoes while setting down his umbrella, in his black suite he looked very proper. He had 3 umbrellas in hand and bowed to us once he got his shoes off.
"The king has requested an afternoon class which you will have to attend, I will accompany you there."
He said to us, he handed the umbrellas to the three closest people which happen to be Dominic, Anastasia and Keung. They got the umbrellas and went to put their shoes on, the rest of us followed. I shared an umbrella with Dominic while Eleanor shared with Anastasia and the twins shared. We walked to the castle and once inside, set our umbrellas down and left them at the entrance, we then followed Yuri inside to the combat classroom. Apparently we were having a combat class?
All the teachers were their and Althgar was seated at the teachers desk. No one talked amongst themselves before we came in, the heads were all silent and out footsteps were the only sound heard.
"Today is your last day of class since tomorrow there will be a farewell party and the last social of the year, so this will be all classes combined. All of your teachers will be here to watch your performance and we together will give you a final grade as this is your end of year test. After this you will also be given your half yearly results."
As an introduction he kept to the topic and there was no beating around the bush. First class we had was history and I just treated it as a normal class since there wasn't really anything wrong with how I normally perform. It was a lesson on spirit borns this time. It was legend about how we know about the spirits and why they give permission for children.
The story went like this.
Once there was a lonely soul who was the remains of a dead man who had never once found love, as that being his only regret in life he could not pass over to the realm of souls and could only hope to find some form of love. His relatives never loved him and his friends were all snakes. Without people being able to see him it was a trek and so the spirits who watch over earth in place of Gaia felt pity towards the soul who could not pass and so said, if he could find love, they'd grant him a child.
So with the bait in front of the soul he went out in search of some kind of love. Someone who could see souls. In the end he found a child, this child was a descendant of Zevary and this child had the gift of the eyes and healing prowess. With those two combined the soul was seen and played with the child for a period of time, this young man then felt a protective love for the child of Zevary who had kept him company and filled his lonely soul. The child also felt love towards the soul and played with him, he was an escape from the life of a noble and would often play. With this mutual love the man passed and the child said her final goodbyes. When she came of age she bore a child and when it was born that was the start of the spirit born. The man asked for the same thing to happen to the child's descendants. The other families began to also have the child blessings of the spirits and they have been receiving blessings ever since the soul who could not pass had passed. It was a gift, one that is almost taken for granted. That's about it. It doesn't make sense but we studied the story to get a better grasp of it. For the whole lesson I completely ignored he people who were at the other side of the room writing comments about all of us. After that we were told to stay in the same room for the next class so we just sat there and waited for the 'judges' to complete writing comments. Next on the stage was out manipulation teacher. Mrs Zevary.
This is going to be another long day.