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CHAPTER 7

PoV: Anya

"A Hot bath! I can't remember the last time I had a hot bath! I can't remember any bath but that's not important. She quickly undressed and slipped into the tub. At that moment Rune walked into the room: "I got some clean clothes and a towel for you,..." He looked at her apparently surprised that she was already in the tub. "Aaaaaahhh, get out PERV!" "I'm sorry!" he said. He chuckled while he dodged a piece of soap she had thrown towards his head. He quickly dropped the clothes and towel and slipped out of the room still chuckling. A few second later a loud noise came from outside the room as if a person was falling down multiple times. "Crud, stupid piece of soap. Why did you have to lie just by the staircase." She heard Rune say. She giggled to herself happy that she had gotten her revenge.

About half an later she was clean and had put on the night gown that rune had brought. Rune smiled as he saw her enter the room again. She felt kind of guilty when she saw the bruises on his face and arms. He offered to brush her hair which happily accepted. They sat down on the bed and Rune started talking to her while brushing her hair: "Tomorrow where going to the Grand Hall. It is located in the upper town. Their you will start your study, first as a bard. You will learn singing, dancing, etiquette, magic and basic combat. Once you got enough experience you can focus on a specialty or learn rarer subjects like the art of the mime, jester, diva or ballerina. The complete training usually takes about four to six years but most leave after their third year to join a adventures party and learn their art by experience. However, you are younger then most new members so you will probably be able to finish you're training before you join a group." A few minutes later Rune was done with her hair and she went to bed. Thinking about what the future had in store for her she fell a sleep and dreamed about brave and handsome princes, wise kings, beautiful queens and fearsome dragons.

"Hey girl, wake up." Rune whispered in her ear. "Le me alone." She muttered and attempted to turn around in her bed. "Hey! Don't go back to sleep. We gotta go to the academy." He said getting a little irritated. "We have to, aaaaaah" he barely managed to dodge the pillow that was thrown at him. "I wanna go back to sleep" she muttered again and buried herself under her blanket. "Enough! Watorin Selsoris Paron!" The words hadn't left Rune mouth yet or a small rain cloud formed above Anya bed and happily started raining completely soaking the bed. "Aaaaaahhhh!!!!! Cold cold cold."She screamed while jumping out of the bed. The little rain cloud cheerfully followed her around the room still pouring water on her. "Enough Anya?" Rune asked the soaked girl. "Yes, I'm awake! Make it stop" she yelled at him. "All right, Watorin Seloris Nullifus!" And with that the rain cloud disappeared. Rune grabbed the towel he had taken with him especially for this case. "Here dry up and then get dressed there are some clothes on the chair." He said while he threw the towel to her. "Thanks now get out!" She yelled at him. "Shees, you'd think I've done something wrong to her." He muttered to himself while he walked out of the room.

Thirty minutes later she came out of the room, her hair brushed neatly and she wore the blue dress Rune had conjured for her. Rune grinned at her: "We'll get breakfast at the academy." Rune hold the door open for a now blushing Anya, (nobody had ever done that for her) and a beautiful red with white carriage was waiting for them. They rode trough the city with curtains closed. She wondered why but was still to angry at Rune to ask him. After a while they arrived at a building that looked like it had been cut out of one piece of huge marble. "Come, I'll show you one of the arts before I show you you're room." Rune said to her smiling. As usual her curiosity got the better of her and she followed Rune trough the many halls. Some were empty while in others people where discussing music, philosophy, politics and magic. In others people were practising magic, singing, dancing and combat. "All Right we are here." Rune said to her. They had entered a completely silent room. There were people here wearing black and white make up and clothes pretending to use objects that weren't there. She looked at two who were pretending to be sword fighting. Her eyes widened as on of the attackers seemed to hit and a real wound appeared on the spot where he was hit. Two others were practising archery one threw up a space glass sphere and the other tried to shoot it down. At first nothing happened but suddenly one of the sphere shattered. The two mimes, as she had now figured out what these people where doing, silently cheered. One of them did a spell without saying any words. Suddenly Rune gave her a nudge and pointed to the exit. She nodded to him and they left the room. "That was amazing." She said cheerful: "I can't wait till I can't learn stuff like that." "Well, you still need a lot of training before you can do that." Rune said smiling because of her enthusiasm. "Well this is the door to you're room. As you complete training and arts extra marking will be added to you're door so everybody can see how good you are. Tomorrow we will start you're lessons so I will give you the rest of the day to explore the academy. If you need to know anything just ask a member." And with that Rune walked away. She opened the door and walked into her new life.