I arrived on the beach a mile from the gates. Swift changed into a horse and I rode her along the path keeping an eye out. I spotted some animals as we passed the forest but didn't stop to talk. The gates to the school are heavily warded beyond anything I had seen outside of the Emyrs and Pendragon properties.

I knocked on the door thinking knowing they wouldn't expect us to bypass the wards as a challenge. I felt a probe on my mind and magic. I scanned it and found it was looking for ill intentions towards the school. I allowed it to see I had none and the doors swung open by themselves.

The center of the compound holds a large stone building shaped like a mini castle without towers. Spread out were a variety of other buildings. I assumed the largest one with balconies to be the dorms. The greenhouses were obvious as were the stables. Off to the right was a trail leading up into the mountains.

I rode Swift up the rest of the path to the main building. Pushing open the doors with Swift, now a Husky dog, by my side I was greeted by an empty entryway. I wandered down the first corridor on the right and found a room marked the Great Hall. It was also empty so Swift and I took a seat at one of the tables facing the doors and pulled out my book. The chair was uncomfortable so I transfigured it into a comfy sofa without moving and Swift curled up next to me.

I noticed that the main wall had a board on it and the first line changed to read my name and age with the time I entered the Great Hall. The rest was blank and I figured would fill with names and info as more students arrived.

I finished my book and was half way through another about four hours later when three men and a woman entered talking. They were discussing the professors bet pool on who and when the first and last students would arrive. They didn't notice me at first so I studied them and listened.

The woman, Jen Hardings, turned out to be the headmistress. She was average height and stature with brown hair pulled into a bun at the nape of her neck. Her robes were crisp and deep blue to match her eyes. Next to her was the Combat and Weapons professor and deputy headmaster Chuck Jones. Professor Jones was a few inches taller than the headmistress with a stocky build. He was dressed in plain clothes and had black hair with brown eyes.

The other two men were tall but other than that completely different. Professor Kilena, the obscure magic professor, was blonde with yellow eyes and red tinted skin. He appeared to be a fire Fae. Professor Victor Tennant was pale with black hair and brown eyes. Professor Tennant is the advanced Blood Magic professor and I could tell a vampire.

Professor Tennant was the first to notice me and raised an eyebrow studying me for a moment before alerting the others to my presence. The conversation stopped and they all turned to me. Professor Jones gruffly demanded to know where I came from and what I was doing here.

Glancing at the board, Professor Tennant answered before I could speak. "She appears to be our young probation student Miss Perrell." I stood and nodded.

The other professors turned to the board and the headmistress whistled in amazement at my time. Professor Jones started to argue that there was no way a little girl could have been the first to arrive and breaking the record.

Angered at being called a little girl, I cut him off mid-sentence. "I passed all of your little challenges. I received 22 OWLs, 19 NEWTs, and 2 Masteries by the age of 12. I speak ten languages fluently in addition to being a beast speaker. I did all of this on my own without any help from adults like you." Then with a wave of my hand from my eyes to the air in front of them I projected my memories of the challenges and arriving at the meeting place four hours early.

Instead of getting more worked up and angry Professor Jones smiled and to the Headmistress said "I like this one. She will do well here."

The headmistress rolled her eyes at him while Professor Tennant let out a laugh and smirked in amusement. Then to me she said, "I won't make you sit around here any longer. Placment test start in the morning so you will need to be back here by eight am."

She turned to the other professors, "Will one of you show her to the dorms and have her select an open room?"

Professor Tennant volunteered and led me back out of the building and towards the dorm building, which was indeed the one with balconies. As we approached I could see most of the balconies had privacy wards up. The building was seven floors tall and very wide. It was made of a silvery stone I was unfamiliar with.

As he led me, Professor Tennant studied Swift and I. Swift had remained in the form of a Husky and walked at my side. He told me what each building was for as we walked and how the dorms worked.

Each new student picked an open dorm room and used it for the entire time they were a student. Students were in charge of warding and protecting their own rooms from theft and attack. They could do anything they wished with the room as long as they did it themselves, no assistance would be allowed for dorms. Available dorms were marked by their white doors. Taken rooms had a variety of colors and designs on them.