Ember Frost’s POV

“I was a mess back then. While I was handling all the paperwork for leaving the army, I made mistake after mistake. Eventually I had to go to the Academy Administration Hall to straighten everything out.”

“When I got there, though, all the problems had already been fixed. The missing documents had been found, the forms were processed, and everything that should've taken forever was suddenly done. I remember thinking, 'Wow, when did the administration become this ...