The sight of a clean bed made my legs buckle and I fell down on the thin mattress at the bottom of the bunk bed. The whole metal contraption shrieked and swayed, but I didn’t care. My whole body ached from sleeping in the cold in hammocks or tents and even though this bed was springy and hard, it was a hundred times better than the wet forest.
Around me, collective groans of contentment and exhaustion were released by some of the other students. The dorm wasn’t massive and it was packed by lots of students I didn’t know. Elves, Spirits, Dragons, the military didn’t care about separation and had just filled beds. From the looks of it, the girl occupying the bed above me was a Faerie from the Angel course. The scythe on the bed next to me indicated an Elf and further ahead, I saw a set of w
