Qwyn yawned wide as he stretched in his seat in the academy cafeteria. For some reason he’d been feeling exhausted lately. He’d been dozing during his lessons and seemed to wake up only more sore and tired than before. Maybe it was a mistake to agree to Headmaster Alvada’s insistence to increase his lessons to three days a week. But he couldn’t do that, he knew how fortunate he was to receive so much private tutoring from the headmaster.
Beside Qwyn, Veer mimicked his yawn. Veer was Qwyn’s best friend and the only other student in the entire school to also be receiving private tutoring from the headmaster. He was everything Qwyn wasn’t, tall, lithe, and graceful where Qwyn was short, plump, and clumsy. Granted Veer was an elf so it was natural that he would have the grace and beauty that all his kind did but that didn’t make Qwyn feel much better. Veer had short dark hair and lightly tanned skin where Qwyn was pale with a smattering of freckles a mop of mousy brown hair. The only thing they had in common was looking younger than they were. Both were adults but Qwyn’s short stature made him still look like a freshman and Veer’s race would make him look barely twenty years old for the next couple centuries.