[Reyoki]

Once back at her apartment, Mimi apologized to her landlady in Wutaian and quickly prepared for bed. She was sure to lay out her suit for the next day before setting her alarm and going to bed. After all, she'd promised Tseng that she'd be in his office by six in the morning. This gave her approximately six hours before she would wake up to face her second day of preliminary Turk screening.

It irked her that the Turk application process had intensified since she'd first heard about it. Really, two years of intern work before you were even allowed to take the first examination? Then, if you passed the exam in the eighty-fifth percentile or above, you faced three years shadowing a Junior Turk, then another examination. If you were lucky enough to be ranked in the ninetieth percentile or above on that examination, you could consider yourself a Junior Turk with a partner. After five years of that, you could apply for the final examination. If your application for the final exam was accepted, then you would be put through the dreaded Turk Field Test. If you passed that test, you were acknowledged as a fully-fledged Turk. If not... a letter of condolences and a single white lily was sent to your family.