10. Learning The Ropes

“How do you talk to the huntress?” I asked, trailing after Ariah. She was showing me around and getting me acquainted with everyone. People were mostly friendly, but no one passed an opportunity to ask about my mark.

Hopefully, by next week people would have grown used to it and forgotten about it. It was getting tiresome to explain the same thing, over and over again.

No one seemed to come to grips with the fact that I had no clue why mine was the way it was. If anything, I’d like some answers too.

“You tap into the spiritual realm. It’s quite a process, so I can’t just explain it to you. In separate lessons, you will be taught how to, most likely, since we already covered it at the beginning of the year. They always do that with new pups. Catch them up on the essentials in separate lessons, most of the time, with the headmistress.”

“I see.” I didn’t know how I felt about extra classes since, from what I’ve seen, my schedule was going to be packed as it is.

“This is the girl’s c