Chapter 39 - Level up (1/2)
Anne was now in a dilemma, a huge dilemma.
Mellie has been absent since some days ago, and she didn't know where to start looking for him. He usually appears in front of her once or twice a week to give her the missions, but now almost a month had passed and nothing. Not a single red paper with strange letters had appeared before her. Not a cookie or even a strange vision of Gandalf running around the school with a black fluffy demon in his back playing the evilest demon of the world.
”This is worrying,” she said while walking around the hallways of the school. ”Where could he be?”
She had gone up the stairs of the main school building several times then again she goes back on her path and comes down the stairs to start again passing around the hallways. The many times she had done that gained her a bunch of people looking at her with confusion, though, no one stopped her.
”Should I call him? Should I make Gandalf look for him?”
She didn't even know that a bunch of students was following her and now there were more than fifteen of them moving at her pace. Up and down the stairs of the castle. Looking outside the windows and chatting among themselves.
”Is this some kind of new exercise?”
”Are we looking for something?”
”I don't know, but don't you think it is fascinating moving around the beautiful halls of the school while the sunset is coming through the windows with old and new friends by your side.”
”Yes, that is right.”
The people following the worrying Princess were talking while strolling behind her and sharing wonderful experiences from time to time. Some of them made new friends, some others made best friends and sometimes a couple emerged from inside the mass of people. However, Anne didn't even notice.
Now the journey of the Princess will be established in the beautiful customs of the school. They will say that when you walk around the hallways of the Academy on a beautiful evening of autumn when the sunset comes from the window, you will be granted a new friend, a friend for life.
”Did you hear?”
”What?”
”A new student will enter this year.”
”How is that possible, the entrance exams are only once a year.”
”I know, but it seems that he is special.”
”Special how?”
”He managed to receive the recommendation of the Great Wizard of the Academy, even the Principal was stunned.”
”Wow, that is amazing, not many can get that kind of permission.”
”I know, they say he has a strange power.”
”Which power?”
”To read ancient books, those that only a couple of experts can read and…”
”And?”
”He can make cookies appear from nowhere.”
”…”