On the way, students prepared themselves.
Several were nervous, each of them had their own reasons. Some were to save a falling family, some to hold themselves from poverty and at least climb higher in ranks so they can enter as a personal guard at least to a noble.
Everyone who had suffered before wished for a better life.
Those that had a better life wanted to keep their family either within the same rank or higher. Adults would speak among each other; running businesses, making money, running the household. Still, though it is the children who are their future who can also make and break a family.
One wrong word from a child can lead to the downfall of an entire line.
They had recently seen such a thing with one of the high noble families and that of the imperial family.
From one of the three consorts, like that one had died. Her entire line annihilated leaving one pathetic princess.