Kael
My name came off the morning board before the new one went up.
The keeper used a damp cloth. Three passes removed the ordinary portion of the reservation.
Veylan stood beside me.
"Still time to regret it," he said.
"I've started."
"Good. Saves us a conversation."
The medical assessment remained where it had been. He checked its time, then went inside to prepare for another student.
I looked at the clean space beside my name.
The cloth left a pale streak below it. I knew the times without reading them, which made the blank patch oddly difficult to look away from.
Veylan came back to the door for a board he had left against the wall.
"Bring your practice notes to the assessment," he said.
"Even the ordinary sets?"
"Especially the ones you decide don't matter."
He took the board inside.
Someone else would be assigned it eventually. For now, the board showed a gap where I used to have an instructor to myself.
