A couple of weeks later, the Academy came up with a new directive for the second years. The current first year class had twelve students, and all of the second year groups would each take on three of them on a Quest.
And to make sure we wouldn't skip out on it, they made it mandatory, anyone who avoided it would be given a negative five point disadvantage during the written exam. I always passed the written exams at the Academy with the narrowest of margins, so I couldn't afford a disadvantage like that.
Az had opted to sit this one out, he usually did fairly well on the written exam, and didn't care about his final score so long as he passed, so he didn't mind the penalty.
