After finishing the last adjustment to her latest creation, Lestari stepped back to admire her hard work. Hands on her hips, she smiled and gave a content sigh. "Perfect," she breathed.

What rested on her mannequin now was a froth of lace and tulle with silk panels and a corseted bodice. It was meant to be a costume for the upcoming Haunted Hallows, but she had been working on it for months. It was, in fact, the piece that she had been documenting and writing about for her entry into Grendel. It was finally time for the Litch to move on from Asphodel Academy and into university.

Looking at her dress, Lestari felt confident and ready for this change in her life. It seemed like it had taken her forever and she was now looking forward to this change and the challenges university would bring. Despite fashion being a notoriously brutal world, hard to get into and hard to succeed in, Lestari just knew that she was going to become everything she had ever dreamed of. Her clothing designs had her own flair, a signature that was all her own.

Attending Grendel would only give her the boost she needed, it would allow her to meet the people who could possibly help her get a leg up, or least give her tips and tricks to succeeding in the cutthroat world of fashion.

"Alright world, are you ready for me? Too bad if you're not, because here I come!" she said and laughed happily.