Well, I've managed to write a chapter of this up. It's short, and most of it is travelling from one area to another for the story's sake, so not much dialogue. But whatever, it's better than nothing.

On a positive note, I have a very short week and long weekend this week, so I'll try to have a nice length chapter up explaining this mysterious new place.

Enjoy!

Chapter Thirteen

I've never really been one for plane flights. Granted, flying short trips inside the United States is not terrible.

But flying for almost nine hours?

Nobody told me where we were going, but I knew it wasn't anywhere in North America. When we'd finally left St. Vladimir's, Grissom had taken me to a waiting private jet at a nearby private airport, where we lifted off and, by my watch, we'd now been in the air for almost nine hours.

While I would've gladly talked to him the entire flight, Grissom appeared to be more interested in spending it sleeping, and he never said a word to me. There were two other guys in the passenger area with us, both guardians that looked in their mid thirties, wearing what I can only describe as...different.

While most guardians wore dress shoes at court, or more casual footwear like boots or sneakers in public, these two wore high laced combat boots, polished black in colour. While most wore jeans or the like, they were wearing black combat pants, made of some fabric I couldn't name. While many wore a jacket and t-shirt, or the like, they were wearing long sleeved sweaters with kevlar vests over them.

Their behaviour was a little different as well.

While many guardians were on a constant alert, surveying their surroundings at any given moment, these two had been talking to either each other or on phones with people on the ground most of the flight. However, every once and a while you could catch a glimpse of them looking around. So instead of not watching everything, I now realized, they were just very good at multitasking.

When we finally landed, I was exhausted, having not slept the entire flight. So Grissom told me to sleep on the car ride to our destination, since I'd need to be at least slightly rested for when I got there.

While I slept, my mind drifted to thoughts of Lissa and, for the first time in a while, Dimitri. I thought about how much I missed the two of them, mostly Dimitri, but I quickly pushed the thoughts out of my head.

"Rose, wake up."

I awoke with a start to Grissom standing outside the car with my door open, looking down and smiling at me.

"Have a good dream?"

I shook my head, "Not really, but that doesn-"

I stopped mid sentence as I stepped out of the car.

In front of me was a small collection of amazingly designed buildings, of similar design to St. Vladimir's, but with more of an artistic emphasis to them. On most sides of the property were trees, except around the road that led out of the area.

"Rose, welcome to Charigos Academy. Garrison headquarters of the Moroi Royal Guard."

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~Nueemann