After the sun had begun to shine in the sky signaling the dawn of a new day, only then did the former academy students awaken from a busy night. Looking toward a loading station for carriages Zark saw a group of friends parting in tears, as they spoke you could hear the language of a different countrymen. Truly this once great academy did pull in people from anywhere, sadly the old era of war studies and academia has completely ended. Now looking for his friends he soon noticed a Thomas parting ways from Jessica and walking toward him. “It’s finally over, she is someone else issue” “ Did you part on good terms?” “Of course, we even shook hands” “What is so impressive of shaking hands with her” “ Dude she wouldn’t let me look at her when we first met, every time I tried she would scream ‘rapist!’.” “ Sounds harsh, too bad we didn’t know each other back then. I could have helped defend you from her, we only met because we were forced to take partners for study.” While chatting they failed to notice Mark and Anton walking toward them. “ Hey you two degenerates what you scheming over there!” “Oh hey Anton we are just talking about Thomas and his new lover Jessica.” Thomas looked confused at Zark words at first then his face began to turned dark. “Before you say anything Thomas remember politics and people are listening in for gossip.” As the friends bantered they soon reached the time of parting, they all knew it was coming but chose not mention the time. Soon when they looked at the clock they saw it was only them and their carriages waiting for them. “Mark you are going to the capital to play politics huh, good luck on that endeavor” “Well Thomas you also are playing politics here in this city, good luck managing Zark’s former enemies” “ Oh those we made peace, it was a dispute over store locations.” “This is really goodbye with you Zark, you are literally going farther then anyone in the entire academy.” They all turned and gave Zark a look as if this was last time they will ever see him. They knew it was true he was going so far out that it literally has no map in the entire academy, the only group with a map that new is the military. “It’s ok guys I got the map part covered, the military will give it to me when I get there. They can’t keep the new baron from necessary info.” “You sure are a unlucky one to be given the title Baron on that land, at that point I would drop my nobility status just to avoid that waste land.” Unknown to Mark was that Zark actually asked his father for that land, it was never a gift but exchange. In exchange of attending the academy he will get baron rank over a piece of land. “Well sometimes it is better to simply go with the flow, it makes life easy for everyone involved.” Nodding his head at Zark, Mark turned to Anton. “He is right, don’t worry Mark.”  As they begin to walk toward their carriages they slowly turned silent. They came close to the carriages and came into one big hug. “Soon I will only have memories of you guys, don’t die Thomas we know you are the softest of us all.” “Shut up Anton you are joining the military as a officer, you are the only one in real danger.” “Don’t worry about me those creatures can’t kill me, I’m too cunning for their inferior minds!” “I wish you guys the best as well, but I hope you guys aim high so I have friends in high places” They all laughed at Zark comment, tho they all wished it turned true one day. Slowly they parted for good as they each boarded their carriage in silence. Zark looked up seeing the ceiling of his carriage with a relaxed expression. “They were good friends too bad they won’t survive in this cruel world.”