Four rooms, all on a second floor. Two full bathrooms, one for the girls and one for the boys. Ten square meters of living room and kitchen on the ground floor. Library and playroom, plus an archery gallery and a stable adjacent to the dining room. So were the kindfolk student houses in Wyynhaist. Mercedes had had to live in an almost new one, suspiciously close to the cave that had been assigned to Neoh and Naja. And she was suspicious because right after the interviews, the Wyverns had hardly separated from her or her sister.

On the second day after she was installed, Mercedes received correspondence from Kaldoria herself, in which the visits and class schedules for Olivia were detailed. And finally she clarified that all the professors, including Naja, even though she was only Olivia's tutor, were aware of her condition.

Of course, that worried her, and the headmistress's arrogant attitude towards her sister's concerns would get her out of her way, but at that precise moment, she had other problems. And those problems were called Candy, Jude and Zady, three half brothers who got along like water and oil.

The first was a rabbit, and also an overloaded ball of enthusiasm and sugar. She did not seem able to calm down for a second, except when she was asleep, but the rest of the time she was constantly doing things, sometimes even more than one at a time. Jude, on the other hand, was a bitter ram, even resentful could be said. He basically did two things besides studying, chewing whatever he has within reach, and taking long naps. But under that layer of indifference, he hid one or two talents and hobbies. Finally Zady, the wolf, was the most normal of the three, being the oldest and most sociable of the brothers, he tended to move from group to group of friends through the academy, but because of that habit he used to get in trouble with others students. Besides that, he was a student who used to stand out in whatever he tried, whatever it was.

  And as for Mercedes, she believed that she could not fit into that colorful family group. But on the third day of being in the academy she realized that they had already made her fit with the important role ... Of being the nanny of those three.

- Merce! Can you help me with my homework? - Candy had tried to approach Mercedes since she arrived. But the young hawk was not enthusiastic about what she enjoyed most, so this time she tried a more direct approach.

-Well, what is it about?

- Geography. We must form three roads that run through at least three regions each.

-Hey Candy, I had done that same task before you signed up. Do you want to use my maps as help? - Jude Interrupted.

- That will be cheepyawesome!

Candy used to use invented prefixes when she wanted to exaggerate something. Like in this case.

- Oh, forget it, I think I already ate them.

And Jude had that huge problem with cans, fabrics, papers, fine woods, cardboard and various leathers. There were few everyday materials that one could put near his mouth without imminent risk. But that was not the only problem. The real mess came from something the two older brothers knew they should never do ... Disappoint Candy.

The rabbit began to cry loudly. Awakening the wolf from ... His mid-afternoon nap. Which, while going down the stairs and after hitting a big yawn, used his usual touch to try to resolve the situation.

- Candeline Niles-Rhodes, or you stop screaming or I'll have to hang you by the ears using Jude's clothesline -For his usual touch, I was referring, of course, to his feeling of a bad-tempered older brother.

And that did nothing but alter the teenager even more.

And that was the moment when Mercedes had no choice but to intervene.

- Candy, calm down. - She said in a calm voice, and, changing the tone to a more severe one, she addressed the other two. -And you, big guys, come over here and give your sister a hug. Are we okay? Who taught you two to treat your little sister that way?

And of course, Jude and Zady had no choice but to obey reluctantly.

Scenes like that were repeated day after day, until finally, at the end of the first week, Neoh rang the bell of that house with unexpected news.

- So ... - Mercedes summed up - You saw Olivia with two long cuts on the back going to the infirmary with the second headmaster Nighishad and an armoured kindfolk that you did not recognize.

- Yup

-And then you saw them leave the academy in the direction of the lake and now Olivia is fighting with him.

- It was what I said exactly one minute ago.

-And why are we still here? Take me there now! 

- At your service!

And while Mercedes was leaving on the back of Neoh, a thought invaded the minds of her three housemates alike.

- What's going on with Mercedes? - Zady asked. - First of all those wyverns are suddenly her friends and now she worries about the only wyrm that has to live outside of school.

- Our Mercedes is making friends! I mean ... That's really weird! really super topslyweird! - Candy said.

- Are you thinking the same as me? - Jude asked.

-That depends on... if you are thinking about gummy sauce and cranberry juice? Oh, wait, did you mean to follow Merce and Neoh to see what's going on. True? -Candy said.

-I was thinking about that lioness of the 193-B class, but yes, I also think it's a good idea to follow those two. -With these words of Zady, both Jude and Candy returned him the typical look of displeasure.

- Zadok Niles-Beowulf, you disgust me. -Candy affirmed with a reproach accent. And the three brothers kept looking at each other for a while.

With the passing of the seconds, their eyes turned into a ridiculous game of weird faces. But then they looked at each other in a different way. That form that indicated the typical and well-known complicity between brothers.