Courtyard: Dana, Lena, Neculai, and Open
Neculai's representative, the wizard Demetrius, would be arriving any minute and Neculai was out in the courtyard waiting for him. He was nervous and had his hands clasped behind his back, standing off to the side with a straight back and a quick pulse as he watched. Students greeted parents with warm embraces and excitement. Some were more restrained. Some didn't look happy at all and Nick wondered at that. Bad grades, probably, he surmised. For his own part, he'd tried very hard to do well in all his classes, but he had other things, bigger things to prove to Demetrius. He did not want to be sent back to the mirror.
Someone touched his arm with such familiarity that he turned expecting Brendan or Tanek. Instead, he came face to face with a tall beautiful woman who smelled like spring grass and sweet clover. She spoke to him in a language that he didn't know and Neculai blinked in confusion. He looked to Dana who stepped in immediately and spoke to the woman, then to him in English.
"It's... alright. How exciting it must be for her." He swallowed.