Sparkstone University You-Choose
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#1 – The Beginning
As you stare up at the formidable main building on the Sparkstone University campus, you’re starting to wonder if you’ve made the right decision to come here.
The last two weeks of your life have been overwhelming for you and your family.
First, your mom received a mysterious phone call saying you’d been accepted to a university you’d never even applied for. Sparkstone University, in the middle-of-nowhere, Alberta. Both you and your parents thought this was a scam at first, but after multiple phone calls to the police and the local school board, you discover that it’s common for Sparkstone University to pull records from the high schools themselves and recruit the top performing students with the promise of large scholarships.
The semester was starting soon, and it was barely August. You needed to get your butt to campus, or lose your chance at a lucrative scholarship and the opportunity to study with the top minds in your field. Since your other college choices didn’t offer you much money, it seemed a no-brainer, and your parents urged you to choose this relatively unknown Canadian university in the middle of nowhere over Harvard, McGill, and Cambridge. In fact, they dropped you and your bags off with few tears shed before Rogers Hall—the giant gold plaque shouts the university’s wealth to your recently emptied bank account.
The university village beside the large campus seems to only exist to serve the students and faculty, which is convenient, as there’s no other town for miles. A few other students mill around the surrounding trees, studying, chatting, and enjoying the precious sun in the remaining days of summer.
One girl leans against the main building, alone. Her bushy blond hair waves lazily in the gentle wind, and her bright blue eyes regard you with wary caution. You give her a little wave in greeting.
She motions for you to approach.
Before you can do so, the doors to Rogers Hall burst open and a tall, slender woman dressed in a flowing white skirt and a cream blouse floats towards you. “Floats” being the most apt descriptor, as her footsteps are so light and graceful, she barely touches the ground. Her long silver hair is perfectly straight, and seems at odds with her bony, angular, yet kind face.
“I’m sorry. I didn’t realize you were waiting out here. I hope we haven’t kept you,” she says. She doesn’t appear as frazzled as she suggests. “I’m Ms. Agailya, the head housemistress here at Sparkstone. Let me show you to your dorm room, and then I have a few things to go over with you. Does that sound all right?”
You glance down at your two suitcases. It would be nice to have a place to put everything instead of wheeling them around campus. The girl leaning against Rogers Hall, however, is still staring at you intently. She seems like she wants to speak with you.
What Do You Choose?
Go with Ms. Agailya to your dorm (0%)
Speak with the girl (100%)
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