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The rest of the train journey passed with friendly conversation between the three, and Bryn was the first to jump up as they reached the station.

“We’re here! I can’t believe it, we’re here!” She was already reaching up to pull down everyone’s luggage. “Come on guys, let’s go out! I can’t wait!”

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Vivienne was beginning to grow bored as they finally pulled into the station, as much as she enjoyed the company of her closest friend and Jacob. She much preferred the private journeys that her family normally took.

“Looks like we’ve arrived,” she commented, looking out the window. “How about we wait for the [i]commoners[/i] to get off first so we don’t have to fight through them.”

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Gus’ elbow hurt from shoving it into his twin so much, and his side hurt from the responding hits from Archie. Unsurprisingly Archie had continued to be his normal, nuisance self the entire journey and Gus was fairly certain the girl in the character was close to blowing. Good first impression. He loved his brother, though, and understood that he couldn’t just sit still.

But he was glad to arrive. “Hey, we’re here.”

Ben nodded in agreement, rubbing away a bit of a headache. But for all its loudness it had been a pleasant journey - though one reminiscent of journeys taken with his younger siblings. He’d made sure to buy them all snacks from the cart when it came round and tried to comfort Nadia more about how the sorting ‘test’ would go. “Shall we get off, then?”

“I think we should,” Gus nodded, kicking his twin’s ankle to get him to stand as he did. He grinned at Archie. “Let’s hope we don’t bump into any reptiles on the way out!”

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“We’re here!” Liqin let out an excited shout, not even turning around from where he’d been taking photos of the journey. He continued to snap shots with a wide grin on his lips. Maybe they could use them for their first newspaper story! 

“Looks like it,” Ishbel smiled softly, standing up with her cat curling around her shoulders. “Let’s get off and to the boats.”

“But I want to take more photos,” Liqin pouted, still not moving. 

“You can take more when we get there,” Ishbel laughed slightly, with an understanding smile. It had been nice to hear the two boys talk about their passions on the journey - she wished she was confident enough to just talk about her passions like that. But it was nice to hear. “We don’t want to get left behind.”

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“It’s okay, I’m used to it,” Thanh said quietly with a shrug. They didn’t know what the girl was saying about auras, it was weird, but she kept that to herself. Instead they responded to the introduction. “I’m Thanh.”

“I’m Olivia!” Olivia perked up with a wide smile and fervent nod in response to what Saiorse had said. “You’re right, though, differences are important. I don’t know anything bout auras but I can tell you’re both cool!”

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For the rest of the journey Olivia continued to chat pretty much nonstop, even as Thanh went back to being mostly silent - but listening and watching. Still, it was them that first noticed they arrived and pointed it out but quietly saying, “we’re here.”

“Really?” Olivia turned to look out the window with wide, dark eyes. “Suddenly I’m nervous… Oh, I hope I get into a good house!”