[center][h2]Lilac de Blanc[/h2][/center]

Lilac pushed her dolly as she looked around her. Students everywhere, just as she had suspected. They were all heading to the academy. Not that they had a chance, seeing how the locals had made sure that they wouldn't go anywhere else by putting a thick red rope that blocked any roads not leading to the academy. It was a major event for the town, which was a surprise for her when she first arrived here a year ago.

Most of the students seemed to be travelling in groups or pairs, chatting with each other, no doubt acquaintances from the previous year. She had no such thing of course, seeing how she spent her entire year barely socializing with anyone. She only devoted herself to her books and studies. She simply didn't see the need.

Unfortunately, looking around often meant that you don't look what's right in front of you.

[i]Thump[/i]

She almost lost her balance due to the sudden impact. She would've fallen down to the ground, no doubt dirtying the white dress she was wearing, not to mention the added embarrassment. She wasn't some clumsy little girl, goddamnit.

She looked forward to see who she just bumped into. And she only found a wide and firm chest, instead of a head.

She humphed internally. She hated having to look upwards to see who she was talking to.

It was a man, as she had suspected judging from his stature. But he looked more like a bear than a man, with how imposing his presence was. And she, as a [s]short[/s] petite lady, could feel the full effect as she stood right in front of him.

"N-need, uh, help with them bags?" he said to her.

She could tell he was feeling awkward as he stood in front of her. It was all written on his face. She didn't understand how a huge man like him could be like that. If she were that huge, she wouldn't be afraid of anything.

Before she could answer him, another tall person appeared. And this time, she recognized who he was. Leo John de Coeur. She had met him a few times in some of the parties she attended to. She remembered how her parents introduced her gleefully to him, and anyone else in the room, as if she was some pretty doll. Even back then, he was already significantly taller than her, even though their age wasn't far different at all. Her impression of him was quite good, as he was polite, even with his constantly serious face. But other than that, she didn't really know anything about him.

"Ah, Leo. You're studying here too?" she asked him with a calm face and tone. "I didn't see you at all the last year."

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