Hundreds of carriages were parked in front of the Royal Academy. Some of the vehicles were lavishly ornamented, and the horses in charge of pulling them were powerful magical monsters rather than ordinary horses. Some of them appeared to be ordinary, and the wagon wheels were caked with mud. They seemed to have just arrived.
The crowds gathered at the Royal Academy's entrance were considerably larger. According to a preliminary estimate, there were no fewer than 100,000 individuals, and the number continued to grow.
Watson and Christina had just arrived at the Royal Academy's entrance when the crowd mobbed them.
