After a few more hours, dismissal time finally came.
Some parents came to fetch their kids, while most children were let be since Alterra was safe anyway. More importantly, it was a good way to encourage independence.
This was no longer Terra where the children's problem would be finding a school or getting extracurricular points. This was Xeno where the biggest problem was avoiding deaths by mobs or wars.
Those could affect an adult or a child. The earlier they foster independence, the better it would be for the child.
Of course, there were also parents and guardians who fetched the kids just because they were too excited to hear more about this school—something so unreachable to them before that they wouldn't even consider even getting near its gates.
