Kestrel puffed out her cheeks, exhaled, and looked around. Her mother was right. She did have exams coming up. There wasn't anything that she could do about Boron at the moment, and now it looked as though chasing after her grandmother's letter was a bad idea too.
She really didn't like the look of those horsemen. She had a bad feeling about following them. It wouldn't make much difference really. She would just ahve to wait an extra day or two to get her letter. She would see Mrs. Plover about it tomorrow. Today, she was running out of time. She had to finish helping her mother get dinner put together--as it was, she would have to make scones instead of a bread that needed rising, and hopefully her mother wouldn't be upset about that. Then she could fit in a little bit of study before dinner since Daisy was coming over to study after dinner.
As much as she hated to admit it, her mother did have a point about studying with Daisy. It took a lot of effort to focus the girl on studying, and then when that was done, it took Kestrel so long to explain even the basic concepts that they didn't get very far. But Daisy had been Kestrel's best friend since they were four years old, and she wasn't about to abandon her now.
Kestrel turned and started walking back home--hopefully for the last time today. She hadn't even had time to register her disappointment about Boron. She had hoped to be able to announce to her family tonight that she had a future, and a better one than they would have expected for her. Now she would just have to rely on her self to make sure that her test scores were what they should be.
Not that things wouldn't work out with Boron eventually, she told herself sternly. It was just that without a ring on her finger, she would be a fool to not do everything she could to make sure she had a back up plan.
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