I was told to register for classes here.” Will repeated himself, “My name is William Cartwright. Pushing aside the ‘Closed’ plaque, he smiled. The clerk stiffened, sitting up straight and a malicious light filled his eyes. He stared to move on, but he didn’t leave without a parting shot. Wait for the next open window and they’ll take care of you. This office handles student registrations. “Temarah save me, are you an idiot? Lord Doster doesn’t personally handle registrations.” The man behind the desk frowned, then pointed at a small, wooden plaque in front of him. “I was told I need to see him to get settled for classes here.” The fellow looked up, his eyes widening in faint surprise. Will thought that was rather rude, so he persisted. The man glanced up and then returned to whatever he was reading. The third seemed to be free, so Will stepped up to greet him. Two of them were talking with others that he assumed were students. Passing through another set of tall doors, he found himself facing a long desk with several men seated on the other side.
He stopped when he found the one labeled ‘Registrar’s Office,’ which was the one he had been told to look for. He wandered aimlessly for a few minutes, circling the wide, central space and reading the carved stone signs chiseled above the entrances on either side. A man passing by him glanced oddly in his direction when he heard the words, then hurried on. There was a variety of people moving about, and as Will took in the scene, he couldn’t help but mutter, “Fucking hell.” He had never been in such a building. The first two floors were actually one floor with vaulted ceilings and two wide staircases on either side that led up to the higher levels. Once inside, he discovered that the exterior was deceiving. He hoped that the building he stood before was the correct one, and plucking up his courage, he walked to it and tugged open one of the broad oaken doors.
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The driver tipped his hat and lifted the straps, urging his team to pull away.
“Thank you for the ride, sir,” said Will. It stopped in front of one, where the driver indicated Will should get out. The road passed between two of them and then entered a lane that circled the interior courtyard between the four. The carriage proceeded to the center of the campus, where four tall buildings soared toward the heavens. From the way Arrogan had once described the wizards of Wurthaven, Will had expected to find them in a grubby and poorly maintained single building. He felt as though he had passed through a congruence point, emerging onto a new plane of existence.
Bloody hell, thought Will, but even his inner voice was subdued with awe. It was an entirely different world, encapsulated by the great city of Cerria. On every side-surrounding the academic buildings, the chancellor’s manse, the student dormitories, the masters’ dwellings-was a rolling landscape of trees and fountains, sculptures, and even a heavily wooded park. Later on, he was forced to learn a new word to describe the wide layout of ancient buildings and landscaping: campus.Īnd yet there was more, for the entire thing took up more than a thousand acres of land. In the distance there were numerous large buildings clustered together here and there, but there was no fortress as the wall had led him to expect. He felt as though he was passing through a boundary into an entirely different world.Īs they passed under the high arch and through the wall, he expected his view to be dominated by looming stones structures, but instead his eyes were greeted by green lawns with sculpted bushes and centuries old oaks shadowing a neatly cobblestoned lane. The gate nestled securely within a formidable wall that rose thirty feet in height. It certainly wasn’t what he saw as the king’s carriage drove past the guard station at the college’s main entrance. Will had never been to school, any school, so he wasn’t sure what he had expected.
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