Azeph kept flipping thepugh the samples as if nothing happened. But the other three students who were doing their best to ignore her presence froze and looked at her.Did people expect her to break down in tears every time they mentioned Nick?“ He would've hated it,” she said with a small smile.“ The color or the ball?” Azeph asked“ Both, he used to say that white isn’t a color,” she answered, “ The royal aides had a hard time cornering him into arranging events like this. They often came to Louis and I for help. Which is why I know quite a bit about preparing things like this.”“When you talk like this, he sounds like an ordinary person, like all of us,” Stella finally said and Elinor smiled.“ That’s because he was. Although he would’ve made a perfect ruler,” She added Looking up she found everyone’s attention on her. This happened every time she talked about Nick. The love of his people was apparent theough their eyes ecery time someone talked about him. Even this ball theme, it

"Morning." Will greeted Azeph from behind as he stood at the top of the hill leading to the academy."what are you looking at?"Azeph looked at his friend who was standing there flushed and energetic despite the morning chill. He had clearly been practicing with his horse since tge early hours of the day.Will’s good mood was always more apparent after spending time with the horses."Nothing in particular, I was just watching the morning crowd" he responded breezily.“So many people taking the same path toward the same destination, yet in the end, none of them really share the same reasons."Does that mean that the path he’s taking right now could end in a different direction than the one he wants it to?He knew that was true. Which is why he had been thinking about it for a while now"Every person is shaped with what they experienced in life, so it's only natural that they don't take the same decisions even if they share the same road,” Will said eying the students heading into the a

"I'm not going to become the queen," Elinor told Stella who's eyes widened in shock,"Do you mean that it has already been decided?" She asked, "Louis is going to be the successor?""No, the king hasn't made his decision yet," Elinor said"Then why do you think that?""I don't think, I know," Elinor told her, "The path I decided to take from now on is tricky. I will be making some dangerous decisions and probably a lot of sacrifices that will be costing me more than my position. Which is why I'm not going to help you personaly. I will have a trusted person request your admission to the class in case I have to go down. Then you won't have to go down with me. So If you're agreeing to this because I might become the queen one day, you should forget about it. I want you to be my companion and help me with my mission as long as I'm here. It won't be something dangerous, but you will have to stay on guard and be smart all the time because our opponent is that smart and cunning. If you agree

There was something about fast paced gtoup debates, and it was that you could miss quite a lot of important key if you don't keep a close look. Elinor watched as students engaged in debates talking about all kind of things and arguing their views. It was like national debate day at school and it felt like if she greeted someone they would throw her an argument about the right way to say a greeting. So she decided to sit back and observe what was going on before her since it was optional for her to participate since she was new and didn’t have to take the special class exam.Elinor disliked debates, they weren't her favorite thing because they took a lot of energy and required her to speak more than she liked to. But she didn’t hate the ambiance, it seemed like a festival where everyone was socialising and speaking to each other heatedly.Before lunch time, Elinor retreated making her way to the greenhouse.Noah was there watering the roses and Alan was drinking tea there peacefully.

They were driving for quite a while when something cut through the silence, it was a male voice that sounded extremely familiar to Elinor, but still it was quite unsettling to hear it behind her as it spoke."Where are we going by the way?" said a voice from behind them starteling them,"Oh my god!" Elinor exclained stopping the car and Stella pulled a gun out of nowhere and pointed it at the backseat,"Woah!" Said the very familiar male voice, "That's one dangerous thing you have there," "Will?!" Elinor exclaimed and the goofy man grinned at her through the dimm light."What are you doing here?!" Elinor asked surprised to see her gooffy new friend grining at her from the backseat of the car,"I want to answer you but your scary friend is scarrier than usual and she's holding a dangerous weapon to my face," He said holding his hands up in surrender.Elinor looked at Stella who was raising an eyebrow at Will before she pulled back the gun,"Who's well rounded now," Elin asked"We live