The wait between Wynne's realization that she would be in the next group and her actual admittance felt longer than all of the hours of waiting put together. When the doors finally opened at last for them, it took a great deal of self control to keep herself from rushing into the building. She strolled in nonchalantly, as if entering this time were no more special than any of the times that came before. And, true, tagging along with Stephen to sneak into the lab before was a special memory, in its own way. But now, it was different.

Wynne was always aware that the Professor was actually a well known and respected man. She knew about his show, and even watched it. But growing up she'd always thought of him as just the kindly old man who lived not too far from her aunt and, more recently, Blue's grandfather. His lab may have been interesting before, but it certainly never bestowed the sense of wonder on Wynne that it did now. The clearly exhausted professor made his introduction to them as a group and gave their instructions.

Wynne took her pokédex, mentally promising herself the chance to familiarize herself with (really, more to fawn over it than anything) when she was alone later. For now, it went into an easy-to-access pocket on the side of her bag. As she did so, the boy from before who was so curious chose his very first pokémon and, though Wynne could understand his excitement, she had to roll her eyes at the show he made of it. 

She turned her attention to her forms, filling them out in silence beside her oldest friend. She was prone to poor handwriting, and wrote slowly to be sure that a something as embarrassing as an illegible word somehow impeded her progress towards Champion. So, she was still writing when Stephen turned his in and inquired after Blue. She didn't look their way, but her attention was clearly piqued. He'd been Champion for a very short time, so she certainly didn't idolize him in the same way that she did certain other Champions. But he'd still achieved the title, and was special in that he was one of two Champions she'd actually [i]known.[/i] His being brought up motivated her to fill out that last couple of a lines a little quicker. She was handing her form in just as the professor started his explanation.