"Sylvia. Wake up," Katherine told her niece, shaking her shoulder gently. The young girl stirred, sleepily opening her eyes.
"Did I fall asleep?" Sylvia sleepily asked.
"Yeah. It's my fault though, I brought you to school too early," Katherine answered.
"It's not your fault, Auntie Katherin. I insisted that you take me to school when you went," Sylvia said, sitting out and drawing her twin sickles. She pulled out a piece of cloth and polishing her blades.
"Come on, Sylvia. School's going to start soon, and the headmaster is going to give a speech in the square, get going," Katherin told Sylvia, who hastily sheathed her sickles, tucked her hair into her cap and sped out the door of her aunt's classroom, waving goodbye and heading for the square.
"She's hopeless," Katherin muttered as she watched her niece run out. The girl was fast, that was certain, but she was forgetful and clumsy sometimes. Katherin walked to the corner of her room and grabbed her axe, sitting down at her desk and polishing her axe with the cloth on the desk.
Sylvia lept and ran, cutting corners and taking shortcuts to save time in order to get to the square. She didn't want to be late. Especially if the headmaster was giving a speech.
After a short while, Sylvia skidded to a halt in the square, holding her hat in order to keep it from flying off when she stopped.