Chapter 20: Being Nosy
Some of the applicants were panting as they arrived at their assigned rooms including Keira because her room number was on the fourth floor of the assigned building and only stairs were available.
She looked downwards from the hallway and let out a long, deep sigh as she saw a lot of applicants headed towards the exit gate of the Academy. Those applicants failed to catch up and remember their assigned room number, dictated by Lieutenant Long.
’Attentiveness...Alertness... Nice one. Good job Keira!’ She thought with a grin, feeling proud that she was listening intently to the introduction for the first time because she never did in her previous school before.
Keira was startled by a firm voice of a woman at her back, "Do you want to join those space out applicants and exit early, soldier wannabe?"
She turned around and stood straight. "No, Sir... I mean Ma’am. Of course, I want to pass, Ma’am," she answered slightly stammering.
Cielo was suppressing her laughter with Keira’s expression as the latter tried to copy the tone of a soldier answering her superior.
"Then, what are you waiting for? Get your ass inside and wait for your test papers!" Cielo instructed with her authoritative voice.
Keira quickly found her seat in the front.
After five minutes, the woman in uniform, who approached Keira in the hallway, entered the room.