Alice was ecstatic, this was the most fun she had had in years, fighting and relating with those pompous and self gratifying noble children in the academy had been boring beyond believe.
The academy had been suffocating in hindsight. Endless lectures, formal sparring, carefully curated rivalries that never crossed a real line. Everyone talked big about legacy and bloodlines, yet most of them had never faced anything that truly wanted them dead. Their arrogance was exhausting. Their self-importance even more so.
The most fun she had had there was beaten up those who were tactless enough to talk about the situation of her family, but those days were behind her now. There was only so much satisfaction to be found in knocking sense into people who never learned. Eventually, even that lost its edge.
