"Judging by your reaction, it seems you did not know."
"I should have expected this." Vivienne said in a tone of slight exasperation.
"Well I certainly didn't!"
"How do I have a mate, and with the dragon representative of all people?"
"That's..."
"It doesn't matter, you don't seem like you want to tell me right now anyways."
". . ."
"It's fine. Even if I wanted to be your mate I'm not exactly in a position to do so or with anyone for that matter."
"What do you mean?" I decided to tell her all about what happened between me and Stella and Vivienne put a hand on her chin and looked down in contemplation.
"This is troublesome."
"Lets put this matter off to the side for now. There was one other thing I wanted to discuss."
"I want to tell you a bit about where you will be staying and how our housing system works." This was actually a topic I was quite interested in.
Vivienne went on to explain that students are split into 2 groups. Regular course students that live in dorms separated by gender and adventurer course students stay in co-ed housing. The adventurer academy tries to foster comradery and the housing situation is used to determine groups for training missions. Because of how much time they spend together, most groups end up sticking together to form official adventuring parties after graduation.
Honestly it sounded like a good system and it made a lot of sense. By keeping us together we can establish a good foundation of teamwork before we officially start our work.
"So who will I be with?"
"Normally you would have had two weeks to socialize and choose who you want to live with, buuut. ."
'I don't like where this is going.'
"Because you arrived just two days before classes, only one group has room left for you."
"This can't be, not only can I not use magic but I don't even get to choose my party members?"
"Also. . ."
"There's more?!"
"The ones left over are ones we had to stick together due to the fact that no one else would accept them."
". . ."
". .And one of them is a princess."
"Damn it. This could not possibly get any worse."
"Heeheehee come now" She giggled "Don't be so dramatic. Who knows, you might like them."
"Besides, doesn't it sound appealing. ." Vivienne walked up to me and leaned close to my ear. "The idea of corrupting a pure, innocent princess?" she whispered seductively
"Should you be saying something like that?" She shrugged and I turned my head away to feign irritation at her lax response, only to notice her smirking at me.
'Damn this woman. I've barely known her a day, how can she read me so easily?'
"It's not hard."
"Don't do that." I found myself seriously questioning whether or not she could read minds.
"Fine fine. Unfortunately you don't have many options at the moment, so I advise you to go meet them and give things a try for as long as possible. I already sent the address to your holopad which my assistant will hand to you on your way out"
"Fiiine" I sighed
"I want to see you again tomorrow along with your roommates. You guys need to speak with a team advisor to decide on an efficient course classes to develop abilities that would synergize well as a team."
After leaving Vivienne's office the attendant handed back my holopad. It now had a communication mode with voice call and video call options, a computer mode like the one Vivienne's assistant was using, and many more.
Most of them can only be used at certain locations or are situational, so I decided just to open the navigation app to input my new address. The Academic district is huge and I don't want to waste too much time
*sigh*
"I just hope things go well."