Sempiternal Aurora

Chapter I

{Bonjour, bonsoir, whever you are, og velkommem igen! Anyway, last update for a while  unless you'd like a C2 teaser. My editor/friend/advisor is still in México for his family, and I've still many an AP project... or 3... for the next 15 days. Oh well. C2 will be out sometime! It'll just be a while... Maybe I'll get more done until then... 😁.

It is morning, though the day has not yet started.

The moon is slowly making its way down through the horizon in way to make for the sun. The horizon is drawn in colours of brilliance, crossing the sky in clusters of beauty as light shines through the clouds onto the valley below, enlightening pockets that wouldn’t have seen otherwise. Emerald hills with ruby trees, thriving in fall under the topaz sky that has become known to signify the Drexia Valleys; it is bucolic in its beauty. Just hidden in plain sight among the valley Crez-Drexia is the Emprise Academy and Hyronorian School for the Arts of Magic, Leçinade branch, Veloim(country), on the planet Eleforiae.

Masked behind the fragrance of flowers of all sorts, the Eimpriae Academy is beautifully sculpted in both modern and in more gothic, antique, architecture. The spires of the Sage’s Cathedral, the arches of the main building- dawned is white marble. The caves, the glass bridges and sculpted buildings- sunlight dripping off their panels. Gorgeous be the words sung by those who yearn for training in the art of magic at the most exquisite of all schools of the sort in Veloim. The school also teaches astronautics and combat as an outpost, as well, for the Eimpriae Academy for Planetary Defense and Improvement. Education here is delivered in two moieties by both schools conjointly, and as per an agreement with both governing bodies- this be the only outpost of the EA that offers free education, and as a result, draws many a people to the glistening Drexia Valleys.

Traditionally, only citizens of any of the recognized federal states on the planet Eleforiae have been allowed at the EA, but as, again, an agreement was made between the two governing bodies, esrtangeries(foreigners from different planets) may seek education at the academy. This is unimportant. Thus, as the sun rises, and classes not yet starting, a couple of teens lay awake, anticipating the days events, but knowing nothing at all about the change waiting insistent in the future. So, they stand. They walk. The go on the same as everything else is changing, and their perspectives as a result just might, but still they lilt on, unaware. Or, one of them, anyway.

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    “Do you think she likes me?” I say as we walk down the stone path leading from the school.

    “No,” says Liliae plainly.

    “I mean… sh-she might dude, but if she does, she definitely wants to play hard-to-get,” says my best friend, Zhustion.

    I smile and place my hand under my chin.

    “Hard-to-get, huh? I can work with that.”

    “Hard-to-get? In your dreams, loverboy- you can barely manage to get even the simplest of situations. If you’re lucky, that is,” says Liliae. She’s not the most optimistic one on the team. (I think her problem is that she doesn’t have enough faith), but don’t tell her that I said that. She’d kill me. Someone once tried to correct her on this Einstein guy’s field equation, and we didn’t hear from him for a week, no joke. By the time he got back, he was in the furthest corner away from her with what appeared to be battle scars. He never went up against her again. She claimed she didn’t do anything, and would one blame me to not believe her- she may not be the tallest, but she sure is freaky when things call for it. This is the reason for my hindrance as to not make her angry- and she doesn’t like me as it, so...

    “Come on, Lil, cheer up! Besides, I know for a fact that she likes me. ---”

    “How?”