"Daisy, are these your friends? I don't believe we had met each other before." The young nobleman asked Daisy, unable to control his curiosity.
Daisy smiled ruefully, " We had met each other once at our place a few days ago, prince Daniel."
Then she turned to Alan and his friends. " Everyone meet Daniel Goldwin, the prince of this kingdom. And this is his twin sister, princess Bella Goldwin."
All six of them inclined their head and slightly bowed respectfully. Which gave the twins a good impression of the boys.
"Daisy, how many time do we have to say not to address us by our status when we are outside the castle." Bella groaned.
Daisy grinned slightly biting her toung. "And these six are from Winden city. They also had received the letter of acceptance like us, but for some odd reason, they took the entrance exam and selected the Arts division out of all the other options. Daisy curiously looked at the boys."
"Miss. Daisy..." Williams began but was cut off inbetween his sentence by Daisy. "Call me Daisy, please. We are all at the university and will in the same division. Besides all six of you are considered extraordinary by my grandfather. You all are even disciples of Grandmaster Harry." She insisted.
What....!!!??? There was a shocked expression on both prince and princess's face. Not only them, but, the entire classroom was shocked to silence.
Daisy bit her lip for her foolishness. The group simply sighed but noded in agreement. Before anyone could say anything. A voice came from the entrance of the room.
"Good morning everyone. I am the new...., I mean reinstated weapons master of the university, Harry." Please carryon with whatever you were doing. I just want to have a few words with my disciples here."
He then went towards Alan and his group. " How is the training going with it?" He slightly looked at Alan's wrist.
"Much better now master Harry. I believe, we have to start the training from the scratch with this method."
"Good..... very good. Meet me a couple of hours before dinner this evening. We will see your progress. Bring Roderick with you while coming." Harry patted Alan's shoulder and walked out of the room.
Everyone's gaze were on them now. They were gawking at the group of people who were standing infront of the class." Miss ... Ah, Daisy, its better to sit down for now. We will talk during the lunch break if you don't have any other plans?" Williams suggested. Nodding in agreement, everyone took their seats.
As soon as they settled down, A middle aged, tall and slender women enterd the class.
Dear all, welcome to the Arts department. I am Susan , the head of the Arts department. Here in the art's department we not only encourage our students to consider their specialization in painting, music, poetry and crafts, but, also have experienced masters at wood crafting, pottery, smithing, metal crafting, gem cutting and polishing and many, many more arts and craft subjects."
"You can choose upto two subjects initally. Once you reach a level of proficiency you can consider trying your hands on others."
The lecture went on for almost an hour providing informations and guidlines for the whole academic year. At the end of an hour almost all of the students were planning on selecting their subject of interests in their minds.
Then she passed on a leaflet to each of them, which contained the list of specialization the university had to offer its students. "It's not mandatory to take the subjects you are already proficient with. If you want to, you can try a different subject or different art or different craft. But if you can't show any sizeable progress during our mid year exams then, you may have to choose another subject.
This is an opportunity provided by the university to all it's students to try and learn new things in their first year. If you fail to show improvements, I mean a great deal of improvement, you might have to revert back to your known subjects and have to pursue it further. And don't worry, no matter how much you think you might know in your own field of specialisation, I assure you, you will be able to learn much more from our master's and grandmaster's.
"Remember, most outstanding and talented students, stand a chance to be one of the teaching staff of this university after an year of training. So study well and all the best. Return back the parchment with your details and the subject you want to partake by tomorrow morning at the front desk of adminstration building. Your curriculum shall be shared once we get the details of your choice of subjects within a few days. Till that time there will only be classes on general topics and discussion with the teachers. That's all for today. You can all take your leave for the day."
Madam Susan left the class after her last sentence with a cheerful smile. Friends or students sitting next to each other started discussing their interests and the subject they were going to take as soon as she went out.
Most of these students had already made planns to continue and improve the subject knowledge they already know of. But the Information shared bu Madam Susan intrigued them to think about persuing a second subject which they had a liking for.