The advertisements for the school were scattered here and there across the city, though Leo had ignored them at first in favor of other, more pressing tasks. Now that he had mostly begun to settle down -- and, deep down, perhaps accept his fate with a little less irritation and bitterness -- and conform his life to its confines, he had found that it wasn’t so terrible to be here, if one managed to keep out of the path of destruction wrought so often upon the populace. Aside from his blunder on the day of his arrival, all had been well.
So he had finally taken it upon himself to visit the so-called academy of Hive City, and... well, it was furnished in what he presumed was a modern style for the time, nothing like anything he’d seen at home. Fair enough. Peeking into the rooms as he’d gone along, it seemed as though there weren’t many classes currently in session -- but for one that immediately grabbed his attention and dropped his jaw.
There was his sister, standing at the head of the class, back to her students, writing on the board. It was most certainly her, despite the relatively -- was demure the right word? not quite -- proper outfit (yet entirely of a style that was truly Camilla) befitting someone presumably teaching a class. He slid in immediately, of course, taking a seat in the back of the room. He was perhaps more than a bit awestruck that she was doing this of all things in her spare time, but the fact that she seemed to have the rapt attention of her students as she went over a diagram of plot construction and narrative arcs was almost unbelievable.
(Was it even more difficult to take in that she seemed to be enjoying herself? Mayhaps.)
She had certainly seen him, seated in the back, and after the rest of the class had been dismissed and exited the room, Leo decided to approach his elder sister.
<<You know, I came here to see what all the fuss was about this school I’d seen plastered everywhere.>> A breath, a pause, then: <<I’ll admit I didn’t expect to find you here... although I did wonder what you’d been up to, seeing as we haven’t run into each other since you forced me to attend that horrible ball.>>
