Defense was already Gwen's favorite class and she hadn't even had one class period yet. It sounded cool though, like magical martial arts. Her mom had always wanted to get Gwen and her siblings into martial arts, but her father said it wasn't necessary. In a city filled with people all they had to do was shout and they would get attention. Besides, if anybody hurt his kids they would be facing legal charges. So she had never learned Karate or Taekwondo or anything like that, but she'd always wanted to. And now she got to learn it with MAGIC!

She skipped into the class unsurprised to see that there weren't any desks. Good. Martial arts class shouldn't have desks. She set her backpack down against the wall and took a seat a little further out, but close enough that she could grab her backpack if she needed it.

Should she take off her shoes? Maybe she would wait on that until the professor gave instructions. It didn't look like other people were taking off their shoes. Gwen was nothing if not a follower.