The World is Round

Chapter Ten - Glorious Sight

Squawk!!! Squawk!!!

"Stupid possum-dodos" Muttered a restless Maro sniggled deep in the warmth of her beddings; but not for long as she rolled off of the bed and hit the floor with her blanket.

She meagerly stood up, leaving the blanket to continue its rest on the light brown carpeted ground.

She left the small bedroom with nothing but a desk, chair bed and small closet and entered the living room with some sofas and a broad table in the middle, where the doors to the kitchen, bathroom and Mayka's room. Mayka must have been already up, since her door was open. She had also wound up the large metal clock, which was the only ornament decorating the walls that made up this room.

With squinted eyes, Maro dragged herself into the bathroom where a blurred Maro could been seen peering back at her though the mirror.

Maro outreached her hand and rubbed a window into the mirror where a now clear and defined Maro was looking at back her, her hair as long and radiant as ever. A Maro with skin that was nowhere near as pale as before, and hair that didn't go past her shoulders.

She finished up her morning ritual and even had a bite to eat before left put on her thick coat and left out into the hall where the doors of all her neighbours could be seen. So many doors.

She walked out of of her dormitory building and into the snowy academy, now hastening her footsteps of fear that she'd be late; her peers around her doing the same.

It didn't take her too long before she found the building she was looking for and familiar faces within its corridors.

"Maro, you won't believe. Joani's back at it again" came the voice of a Grio who appeared beside Maro walking along with her.

"What the fuck! Why?"

"She remains a mystery to all of us"

"Oi listen we need to get rid of her soon... This is stupid. Like what the fuck..."

"You don't need to tell me that"

Another familiar face spoke out standing next to the doorway "Are you guys talking about Nayke?" came Frayin

"Go away" said Giro. "You weren't supposed to hear that"

They walked off before Giro parted ways "Ima head off to SRC. See ya"

"Nah, you won't I'm busy later today"

"Oh what? Why?"

"Training with Bartoq. Only took him like, what, 5 fucking months?"

"Haha I don't understand why you have such a hard-on for him... Ya skank"

"Hahaha I'm not the one screwing Leir"

"Oi, fuck you, ok?" was her final remark before she made with a smirk before she made a turn to another corridor and Maro arrived at her destination.

She pushed the large door open to find the blue classroom filled with water up to her ankle (as it should be) and all the 22 younglings sitting down in the center of the floor. The chattering between them faded to a halt as the smile widened on Maro's face and the door went back to the closed state it was in before.

"Morning class" she sang in a mildly enthusiastic manner

"Good morning Maro" replied the synchronised class

Bartoq who was laying on the floor with his back firmly pressed against the wall gave a slight nod of his head as a sort of approval for Maro to start the class.

The classroom was a large square room made of ice like the rest of the building with two doors that were smaller and then main one on either side.

She walked over the side and opened up the equipment room which was the door on the right of her and took out two contraptions as well as a water tank. Each contraption was a slanted half pipe held up high by four poles; two Vs that came out of each end of the half pipe and at the end of each leg floats were situated on the bottom for easy movement around the classroom.