Since there were only four people left in the tournament they had been split evenly between the two ready rooms, the staff making sure to keep the opponents separated before their matches. Mature sex Aura walked into the room with a neutral face and still dressed in her teaching clothes, her hair a little frazzled around the edges. If Lythia had been on the opposite side of the arena then it was another professor who escorted her, so Richard would have to wait until he got into the ready room to see if she was there. The nervousness that should have crippled him the first day set in the next morning and Richard had trouble forcing his breakfast down his throat. Two mages who looked like they were just about to start their match stood where they were and stared at him with wide eyes, covered from head to toe in dust from the walls that had once been there. To do that he would need to fight Daiya and/or Coni,
