Omega (Book 1)
This was apparently a momentous event held every year and the old man's euphoria and gaiety was beginning to infect the students.
“The contest, ‘Vestige of the Aptest’, spans for three days. On the third night—which is always a full moon, is when the chosen contenders are expected to have gone outside Golden Lake and into the woods and come back, too, with a golden orb that's ever glowing.” The man's pale eyes opened wide at the mention of ‘ever glowing’.
“Of course, of course,” the man said again, waving a shaky hand in the air without much regard, “we will not put our students in danger on purpose so you all can be rest assured that the contest will be contender, nature and Golden Lake fri