The lobby is a spacious room with wooden paneling on the walls, it is probably large enough to fit over one hundred people. Rebecca stood near the entrance of the room waiting for all the students to enter. Rebecca was a fairly tall woman at about six feet. She looked to be in her late twenties to early thirties and had the appropriate curves to match; she was wearing an all black pants suit that was fairly fitted and her hair was light blond and reached down to the middle of her back. When everyone entered the lobby, Rebecca moved to the front of the room and spoke, her voice was fairly audible despite her not shouting at all:
"Listen carefully because everything I say is important. You will all have your own room within this dorm. That is because the cultivation of laws and magic is an arduous process requiring focus and an extreme amount of attention, so each room is reasonably self contained so that you will not get in each other's way. As the Dean mentioned before, you will find a book of rules within each room and you should memorize each rule because everyone of them involves an adverse consequence if broken. As you can all see, both males and females live in the same dorm because you are all adults and as long as you don't break the rules, we do not care what you do. You will all need to go to our academy's website to view and register for your classes which start in one week. Laws and magic are both complex and both have to be studied separately at first for you to even understand what they entail. There are over 50 classes on the fundamentals of both of them and it is up to you to decide what you want to focus on and that will most likely be true up until graduation. After the first week you can even decide not to go to classes at all if you rather self study, however you will all have to participate in exams and other such activities scheduled by the school. Since you have some time before your first classes, I advise you to go to the school library to read up on some fundamentals so that you're not completely ignorant. You'll find that the books that are available at the library have very concrete and specific information about laws and magic unlike the books from public bookstores so make use of the opportunity here to educate yourselves so that you can become great magicians. You were all given your room number at registration and there are 20 rooms on each floor starting at the first floor and they are in sequential order so you should be able to find your rooms fairly easily. You are all dismissed."
After she finished speaking, Rebecca left the room upon which most persons went to find their dorms and some people formed groups and stayed in the lobby to talk. Nick proceeded to leave the dorm and head to the library.
(I will finally be able to get books with specific details about laws and magic. I'm not going to waste any time.)
After ten minutes of asking around, Nick finally found out the library's exact location.
It was a huge building that sort of looked like a gothic styled church. It had two adult sized stone statues of what looked like gremlins standing at the door, one on each side. As soon as Nick walked to the doors, both statues literally turned their heads to look at him.
(The fuck? This is creepy, why would they put these things in front of a library?)
When Nick saw them look him over and turn their heads back to the original position, he guessed that they were some sort of security system. Nick entered the library and unlike other libraries and book shops he had been to, this place had a smell of fresh air, fragrant like being in a garden. The library was clearly huge with many large book shelves and many books resting in them. Nick didn't know where to start so he looked around for someone to help him. He saw who he assumed to be the librarian sitting at a desk in a corner of the room; he was a slim, white man with squinted eyes. Nick went to him and asked:
"Excuse me sir, where do I find introductory books on laws and magic. I would like to borrow some if that is possible."
The librarian replied:
"We have many of those kinds of books but since you are a new student you can only borrow one book at a time."
"How do you know that I am a new student? I might just have my own collection of books so I just came here to check yours out."
"Ha, ha. Kid, by the time persons get to their second year, they don't ask for introductory books on laws and magic because they would have already copied what was in here if they were so inclined. Not to mention, the statues you saw at the entrance transmits to me information about whoever enters this library. Stop trying to act mysterious. I hate that the most."
Nick rubbed his nose with a slight smile. He didn't know why, but he was always more talkative in a place with books.
"You're right sir. Please give this young man some guidance."
"Hpmh"
With a sound, the librarian waved his hand and about thirty books suddenly appeared on his desk, all with varying sizes, shapes, and colors.
"This is a collection of the best introductory books, I won't help you any more than this, just choose one."
Nick didn't want to waste any time and since he didn't have much information anyway, he just chose one with an appropriate sounding title: "What is Magic and What are its Laws?".
"Thank you, sir."
"No problem, just remember to return the book before the end of the school year and you can't borrow another book until you return that one."
With that, that librarian waved his hand and the rest of the books disappeared. Nick looked at his phone and saw that it was only 12:30 pm and so he decided to stay in the library and read a little of the book he just got. He found a chair and desk, sat down and began.
By the time he lifted his head and checked his phone, it was already 7pm and so after rubbing his eyes, he picked up his book, left the library and returned to the dorm.
(I'm hungry, good thing I have some snacks in my bag. I'll eat them in my room and review what I've read thus far.)
Nick got to the dorm and took the elevator located in the lobby to the forth floor because his room, numbered 32, had to be there. When he got onto the fourth floor he could see a room door at the side further in front of him with the number 32, so he started walking towards it. When he got to room 31, however, he realized that the door was open and took a glance towards it. To his surprise, he saw a man that looked his age pinning a woman against a wall in the walkway to the living area from behind. He had her skirt elevated with his crotch against her bottom. Her face looked flush and she was clearly sounding a muffled moan that was just barely audible with her hand over her mouth.
The man seemed to notice Nick and turned his head slightly. They looked each other squarely in the eye for a second, the man smiled and turned his attention back to the girl. Nick walked briskly to his room next door, entered and closed it. He stood with his back against the door for five minutes staring blankly at the ceiling. When he snapped out of his stupor, he threw his bags on his bed and focused on his new book.
"This place sure does have some strange people, first a guy that kills two young men without saying a word, now a sex fiend...I should just focus on my studies."
Nick got a little notebook and pen from his bag and placed them on a desk beside his bed. He sat down and started making notes.