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[color=#fcd17d]"Today, we're going on a mission!"[/color]

Yvaine said the words out loud as she scribbled them on her notebook, her flowery script neatly filling in the spaces between the lines. It would be her first time out in the city, her first chance to experience the bustling metropolis she'd read so much about. She had glimpsed some of it during her travels with her guardian, but they had moved at such an efficient pace that there had been no time to appreciate the sights. 

[color=#fcd17d]"I hope we can find the culprits without much trouble."[/color]
 
Her first two weeks had been nothing short of amazing, seeming as though the years' worth of experiences she missed out on had been packed into each wonder-filled day. Most important to her were the precious moments with her classmates, and the opportunities to get to know them better. Some were harder to approach than others, but she was nothing if not gently persistent in her endeavors. Mandi and Sophiel have already won over her heart so completely, she knew she would do anything to keep them happy and safe. 

Club activities (she joined choir and was already in the running for a solo!) kept her busy whenever she wasn't training her mana control or reviewing Professor Nyx's lesson for the day. And on top of all that, she was still adapting to living outside the priory. Some habits were harder to break—she still rose with the sun to do chores, for instance—but she was beginning to feel more comfortable with her new normal. 

Yvaine had said as much to her guardian, who wrote to her every three days to see how she fared. Her journaling came about for his sake, to make sure she didn't miss anything when she recounted her previous days. Her guardian remained a mystery to her, but it touched her to see him so invested in her and her progress in the academy.

And speaking of the academy… Yvaine brought her pen to the top-right corner of the page and sketched a cutesy doodle of Professor Nyx's head with his face currently blank. It was to be filled at night, after she finished the entry with reflections of the day's events and she had gotten an overall impression of the professor's mood. Yvaine leafed through the previous pages and examined the past doodle Professor Nyxes with a fond smile.

Currently, they were all drawn with frowny faces. She hoped to change that one day.

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Extra preparations had made her slow to get ready on the day of the mission. Mandi had gone ahead minutes ago and she spied Sophiel's note earlier. Yvaine hummed happily as she packed the last of the small containers and neatly stacked them into two bags. [color=#fcd17d]"And that makes fourteen!"[/color] She didn't know what riding a train would entail, but she hoped there was room in there for the snacks she made for the class. Ah, and she hoped they would like it! Fruits and pastries seemed safe enough.

With the class's snacks ready, she was all set to go. Her own bag contained very little—just the bare essentials, as the professor instructed. Yvaine looked at the time and hurried along with a renewed sense of urgency, clumsily toting the bags beside her as she broke into a run. She mustn't be late again! Timeliness is next to godliness, as they say.

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Yvaine reached the station not long after Ankaa, her arrival punctuated by the sound of her packed snacks clattering to the ground as she tripped on loose gravel. [color=#fcd17d]"Hello, everyone!"[/color]