Chapter 4

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CHAPTER FOUR

"What are you doing out here? You're a long way from the academy." Sam lifted his hand and shook all the leaves and twigs from his hair, smiling. He lightly jogged towards me, putting his hands in his pockets. "Mr. Parker found you a roommate. He also told me to tell you that he is having someone pick up all of your furniture and belongings from your old place to be brought here. It should take somewhere between three to four days."

"I don't know if my siblings will let him take my stuff." Thinking of Poppy and Asher, I wondered if they would even notice I was gone. I had left a note on the counter telling them I would be going out, but I didn't say for how long. Maybe later I would call them.

"They will, trust me, he has his ways," he tapped his temple, that always grin sitting on his face. It seemed weird to always be so happy. We began to walk back to the campus. Our shoes crunching on the fallen leaves as we made our way through the trees.

"Do you know my new roommate?" Sam glanced back at me from where he was walking in front of me.

Lifting a stray branch up for me to walk under, he answered. "Her name is Juniper Carter."

"A girl?"

"Yeah, it's different here compared to other places, roommates aren't decided by gender or age but by compatibility. I don't know much about her actually. She doesn't have many friends and tends to stay away from people. Kind of a loner, you know." Sam walked with me through the woods all the way back to the fountain. He pointed to the smallest building to the left of the main building.

"That's the dorm you'll be living in. You're in room 303, so on the third floor." He ran a hand through his hair and sighed. "I'll see you tomorrow. Mr. Parker will probably send for you in the morning."

"Thanks, Sam." He waved nonchalantly and jogged to the dorms across from where I would be staying. It was going to be weird sharing a room with someone. I don't think I had shared a room since I was about eight with Poppy.

I walked through the two small doors into the dorm. I took a deep breath and felt exalted for it, the sheer joy of being alive and being here in this moment was everything and anything I could have ever asked for. It was clean inside, a small reception desk sat before the doors, two comfortable looking white chairs next to it. A woman was at the reception desk, she looked to be in her mid thirties, her hair was a light strawberry blonde and a pencil was behind her ear. She was looking down at the desk, a look of concentration on her face. When the door closed behind me, she looked up, her eyes were a pure white, no pupils. I started but she just smiled.

"You must be Echo," she said, standing up and walking out from behind the counter. She was wearing a short black skirt and a long sleeved white shirt with a red cardigan. She tilted her head at me, as if appraising me. I didn't know where she was looking without her having any pupils. It seemed as though she caught me staring. She chuckled.

"Mr. Parker did say you grew up with the norms." Tapping between her eyes, she said, "Don't worry about my eyes. I'm not blind. They just ended up this way because the gods decided I didn't need them. My name is Thalia Storm, I am the dorm mistress. You'll get use to me."

"There are gods too?" She smiled at me as if she knew something I didn't.

"Yes, and you should expect to meet some at any point in time. Here, let me grab you a key and I'll take you upstairs to meet Juni." She went back behind the desk and grabbed something by where she had just been. She waved me towards her and I followed her down a brightly lit hall with a light blue carpet. There were many doors leading into the different girl's rooms.

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