As much as a week of social misery gave Arc time to advance her understanding of the threads, she found herself intensely excited when she woke up early and realized that today was the day! She would enter the Skyway Tower to learn the secrets of how dragons chose their riders and leave as more than an aspirant to the Dragon Knights... she would leave as a candidate.
For a while, she lay in bed, running through all the dragon trivia she would use to impress the knights. She could name the nine domesticated species kept by the city off the top of her head. She could list most of their major bones and organs. And she even knew the theory behind the importance of gold in dragon nests, and how it allowed them to exercise magical regeneration, even in their sleep.
