Thankfully for Theora, she was, as always, constantly surrounded by her roommates, and the evening went by in a flash. The next morning, she was in a much better mood as they all boarded the train. Not only was she going back to the Capital, close to her cousins and far from Reylan, but most of her roommates would be there, too; all except for Peony, who had taken a different mission with Keffen, and Selvie, who had ranked too low to pick this one and was going on a charity support mission instead. Even better, Mischief was on the train too, as this mission would require the trainees to be riding horseback often, so the Academy had sent some horses. Due to the delay in loading the horses and the large number of trainees on the train, all headed for the selection, they had boarded later tha
