River was flabbergasted at the amount of information, at how far away from home she was, but she wasn't afraid, or nervous - she was ecstatic. Adventure had her name written all over it, and she already felt cramped up and somewhat claustrophobic from being in the building for just this introductory lecture. She was starting to get somewhat fidgety, so to stop herself from tapping her feet against the ground, she sat cross-legged in her chair. Her knees bobbed instead, but she didn't seem to notice.

When the equipment belt was shown to all of them, River mused for a second at it. "Ma'am," She said with a raised hand, "Will our wands all be [i]different[/i] from each other? And what do you mean, pets? Are [i]they[/i] magical too, like us?" She looked around at the other students, wondering what kind of Magic Core they had. At the mention of food however, her own stomach rumbled audibly. "I could eat a whole dragon." She grinned at the boys next to her bashfully, a rosy color rising on the apples of her cheeks as she ruffled the back of her hair.