When her phone cut through her quiet thoughts Dawn found herself pouting, but she flipped it open without opening her eyes."Hello?" Dawn, honey, where...are you?" Dawn sat up as she realized it was her father on the phone, and she grabbed for the towel laying on the ground beside her. "I'm at home, just watching television Daddy, why?" She looked over her shoulder into the kitchen and was relieved to find that she didn't see him in the door. She realized that it could have been bad if he had been. Francis knew fashion as well as she knew Middle Eastern languages. In her student years, Francis financed her studies by modelling for the Bay in Canada and Galeries Lafayette in France. University students didn’t get to eat much, with the result that Francis had that lean hardbodied look favoured by fashion photographers. She was especially in demand for lingerie advertising due to the wide hunger-induced gap between her thighs. She could have had any AC/DC fashion photographer or middle-aged. Just look at the emblems on that girl’s chest. There’s no way someone of that level will join our team.”Nearly everyone in the plaza looked in awe, their eyes were drawn to the duo. Maybe it was because they had witnessed a Four-Attribute Magic user in the flesh. Perhaps it was absolutely fascinating to see a Temple Academy mage carrying a blade. Or it was a certain type of charisma they both exhibited — a compelling charm that could inspire devotion in others.Whatever it was, they were. Regardless, I spent the next six months in intensive training with Dakar's reigning Wing Chun master, and learned exactly the skills I needed to blow my Judgment competition away, ringers and all.Another advantage of adult testing is that at 10 PM the Initiate is free to go home and wait for the results. I still felt a bit hot from all the testing though, and decided to take the long way home through my gardens and open courtyards.The moon had set hours ago, and Dakar has a tradition of no.