Soon enough, everyone was up.
Kyva took her place among the other accepted candidates, standing in a neat line before the settlement gates. This time, they had been issued the same uniform, each clad alike as though they already belonged to some proper order.
She found herself beside Selene and Liora, while Rowan and Cassian stood just behind them in the line. They had been assembled in the open ground before the settlement, where everyone waited in quiet formation. The others stood with an ease that spoke practice, like warriors long accustomed to such gatherings.
Kyva, not wishing to be the odd one out, did her very best to imitate them.
The sun had just barely risen, its pale light only beginning to wash the sky in that soft, bluish hue that came before true morning.
