When she finished, she went back to the school, head hung low. The sun fell behind the horizon as dusk set. The testing had taken her all day.
Lilianya went into the empty classroom. Everyone else had already gotten their results. Everyone else was already home. Lilianya sat at her desk, waiting for her results.
Zaviana appeared out of another room. She paused as she looked at Lilianya. A small, sad smile appeared on her face.
“I failed, didn’t I?” Lilianya frowned.
Zaviana shook her head. “You passed. But barely.”
A weight lifted from Lilianya’s shoulders, but shame clouded her mind. Barely? How close had she been to failing? She opened her mouth, ready to ask, but a part of her didn’t want to know.
“You had some pretty unconventional methods, especially with how you embedded weapon
