These are questions for RUniaka. I'll explain here though. We do need to get on the bus. The cafe is part of the Academy property but the only ones that see it as a working cafe are the students that come. As long as the students stay inside the cafe, they won't be found by anyone. If a 'normal' person sees the cafe, it will look like its not been in decent condition in 20 years or so. In fact the floor boards have rotted through in many places. The bus is actually part of the cafe and where the bedrooms are for us to be in. 

At the moment we are on Earth but the bus will take us to various places which has a specific set of lessons for us to learn and a set of goals to get certain items. Once we get the items, we can leave that place. These places will take place on a parallel plant called Terra Firma. It was once a planet full of people that had magic. A Magick War had broke out and they killed each other by terrible disease called wasting away disease. The last 2 people- 1 from each side- shot each other to put each other out of their misery and waiting to die of starvation.

The original Gus and Bess were from that planet and was sent off to avoid the war. Most of these children died a rare few did find planet earth which where they were heading. To Qualify for the escape pod, you had to be under 5 years old. Gus was not quite 5 and Bess was 3. The children were paired up so that there was a male and a female in each pod.

This might mix you up.....
Gus the bus driver and Bess the teacher are AI robots trained to do one specific set of chores and nothing else matters to them except those chores. 

What other questions do you have?