[center][h2][color=aba000]KRISS MAUSER[/color][/h2][/center]

Kriss has spent the ride flipping the pages of the small Bible, glancing at pages but barely reading them. The words were familiar but no longer interesting. Heck, he had only brought it because it was the only book on his desk. He flicked the edges of the pages with his thumbnail, glancing around at the other students. Some were familiar but most were new. He caught sight of Adam Unterhügel, another third-year student he had shared a class or two with over the previous two years. Kriss gave him a short nod from across the barge when he thought Adam was looking. He made a mental note to actually greet him later.

The ride felt as long as it had the previous years, and the docking was just as jarring. He grinned as some of the new students lost their footing and stumbled into each other. Mumbling apologies, the group made their way onto the docks and into the presence of Vasilisa Kuznetsov. She appeared to be in the usual disagreeable mood. Kriss followed along as she ordered them off the barge and into the courtyard, now occupied by a vast number of dummies.

[color=aba000]"Oh good, the 'Dummy Test,'"[/color] he muttered, tightening the strap of his messenger bag. [color=aba000]"At least the new kids are going first again. Hope I'm not too outclassed this t-"[/color] Kriss grunted as he was shoved aside by a student running to the front. She was quite possibly the smallest girl he had ever seen at the academy. She hurled herself into the test, using what looked like a pair of flamethrowers to torch a whole line of dummies. Kriss groaned. Another pyromaniac. There was something about the obsession with fire that turned a person into a monster, and fire-manipulating students occasionally became uncontrollable and dangerous to their own classmates. But he didn't know her, and he wasn't about to look down on someone he knew nothing about. She could be a smart, talented person with a passion to excel. Of course, she could also be insane. 

Kriss shrugged. There were plenty of insane people already attending the academy. She'd fit in one way or another.