Lea sighed, stretching a bit as he walked across the courtyard. What a day. He'd managed to find his dormitory and stake out a bunk for himself, then somehow to make it to the cafeteria for dinner without getting lost any further. At least the food had been reasonably good, even if some of the vegetables were unfamiliar. Personally he thought it could use more spice to it to, but then his tastes tended to run a bit too spicy for most people, so he couldn't really complain too much there.

Now though, he wanted little else than to go back to his dorm and crash into bed. Maybe tomorrow he'd be able to figure out what the heck he was going to do. Or maybe he'd get lucky and this would all turn out to have been a weird dream.

When he happened to glance up at the clock tower in the middle of a stretch though, he saw something that drove that thought from his mind quickly enough to set a new speed record. A smallish figure dressed all in black was sitting on the clock tower ledge, apparently watching the sunset. It couldn't be... could it? Lea hurried to the clock tower's entrance and began to climb the stares hoping that the figure would still be there when he arrive and that it hadn't just been his mind and heart playing tricks on him....