The Heroine

We started heading to the dorms and the mentor decided bring the lesson with him. "Ah, I just recalled that there was a special fledgling entering this school today that has a Hero's mark. The interesting thing about Hero Marks' is that they don't all mean the same thing. You can be anything from the Hero of farming to-" Conlan would cut him off to say. "The Hero that will slay the Dragon King." The mentor looked at him a bit surprised and would say "Well yes, among other things. Having a Hero mark doesn't necessarily mean you have to be the best at something, although it may help, bearing a Hero mark means people will often look to you and when they do you gain more power in turn. Interesting that you know about it though." Conlan just nodded and smiled halfway... I wonder if he decided to keep quiet about him having it for a reason. Regardless we made it to the dorms and the Mentor explained how the boys and girls will be separated. They weren't very extravagant dorms but compared to my home they're actually pretty nice. It looked like a wood lodge and made by a well-trained carpenter. As soon as I think that the mentor tells us. "You might be able to tell the carpentry work on here is well done, that's because it was made by an alumnus of this school." Useless fun fact but I guess it answered my question. The mentor then made Natalia the leader of the girls and for once I was separated from Conlan since we've been here. Thank goodness.

Natalia began explaining that there were two girls to a dorm room. Once we saw the first dorm room it was understandable why. The room were really small. Like one person enter at a time and get on your bed so the other can enter kind of small. That was fine though, the beds were of good quality and a lot better than home. Because Conlan and I were late and there were an even number of girls, Clique's were already made and I was singled out as the odd one out. Apparently, we also got to choose our own rooms to because a pair would just claim a room and we would move on. I didn't like the fact that I was sort of a last pick...however I suddenly feel something soft on my arm. It was like a petal, then it grabbed around my wrist ever so gently almost sending a shiver through my entire body. As I felt it slide down my arm, I could feel the heat on my cheeks. I mean I knew what it was...or more so who it was. I don't know why she was doing it though. Natalia was moving to grab my hand but it was in a really lewd way. She was sort of rubbing my arm...maybe she was trying to see if it was, okay? I moved my arm away a bit and looked at her. "Wh-what are you doing!" She gestured towards the last room...because it was for us. I then told her. "Alright but you don't have to hold my hand! Geez." Like the other rooms it's small and the beds take up most of the space. Still, it would be home for a while.

We met back up with the boys and went back to the classroom. The Mentor then told us. "Now that you know who you will be rooming with, you'll be put into groups of four.... of course, sense there are 15 people in this class one group will be in a group of three. Also, although it's not normal to recommend this, don't be too opposed to integrating boys and girls into your groups. You'll never know if you'll need each other with adventuring." With that said we were allowed to choose our own groups. I was surprisingly popular even though I hit a guy with some chalk. Apparently, some of the guys thought I would be a good addition...but so did Conlan. Right when I was asked by the first group I was grabbed by the back of my collar and pulled away. I look up to see Conlan. "Sup." I said not even surprised by this. He was still determined to have me watch his back after all. "Now we just need a healer." He said once he felt we were far enough away from other recruiters. Although he didn't distance himself from everyone since right after I heard. "I can heal." We both turn to look at the familiar voice and it's none other than Natalia. "Well then looks like we have what we need!" Conlan said with determination. I finally regain my footing and say "Wait. Our Mentor said we can have 4." As if expecting it, Conlan answered me right after. "And he said we'll have one group of 3, look." I look at the direction he's pointing and I see all the other groups have people of 4 already meaning we are the group of 3. I just sigh.... I feel like Conlan planned this from the beginning. Also, it looked like everyone mixed like the Mentor wanted. A group of 2 girls and 2 boys, 1 boy and 3 girls, 3 boys and 1 girl...and then our group of three. Once our Mentor saw everyone grouped, he seemed to give us a minute to talk before calling for our attention again.

"Now that you're all grouped up, you'll stay in these groups for better or worse unless something unexpected happens, for the rest of your learning here. You'll have to learn to get along with one another from now on...Now class is almost over to let's head back inside." So, we went, and so the class ended. After class Conlan seemed pretty pumped. Since he knew me, he wanted to learn a lot about Natalia. Every questioned he asked had her shy and blushing as if all his words were confessions of love. In order to not puke I had to distract myself....by playing a game called catch with Conlan. You'd think it's the normal pass to each other but that wasn't quite it. Because Conlan is...well not fair, and I can throw a ball pretty much anywhere I can see, we decided to make a game that would raise both our skills by having Conlan stand next to me, and I call out a predetermined area, he then has to run to that area while I throw it and catch the ball. They spoke to each other while we played this game.

The day ended and I had to go to bed with my roommate. Everything was pretty normal up until.... "Goodnight Rose." Natalia said while we were already both in bed. "Goodnight" I said back to her....and the night pa- no someone's crawled into my bed. "Natalia what are you doing?" I asked her while not giving her room to join me in this already small bed. "I'm nervous...I sleep better with other people." Ignoring my burning face, I say back. "Uhm, well grow up, there's not enough room for both of us." I try to tell her but she ignores me and once again I feel her on my arm.... running her hand down it in an attempt to reach my hand. "S-S-" I can't even get it out. It's not that I don't want to but we just met and this is kind of embarrassing...at least it was until. "I actually want to ask for your help about something with Conlan." Huh? Conlan? Ah she took my moment of distraction to not only grab my hand but lace her fingers between mine.... I'm stuck.