"Two gift boxes."
"One for Ms. Su Shijun, member of the Grand Wizard Conference, Moonlit Parliament Upper Councilor, mistress of Qingqiu Mansion, director of First University's Two-dimensional Evolution Laboratory... have her titles always been this long?... oh, all right. We elves aren't particularly familiar with the latest concepts in the Wizarding World."
"Hmm, the other is for Jiang Yu of Astronomy Class 08-1, First University Jiuyou Academy... there. Could you check the addresses and recipients?"
Having finished reciting in her shrill voice, Little Red Riding Hood bit down on her feather pen, jumped up, and patted Zheng Qing's knee, signaling for him to look at the parchment slip in her hands.
Chunks of snow from her climb out of the snowdrift still clung to her roomy red hood. Beneath it, her little face was almost translucently pale, though whether that was natural or caused by the cold was anyone's guess.
The young scholarship student crouched before the little elf, squinting as he carefully deciphered the mosquito-sized writing on the parchment. Beside him came the crunch, crunch of the large rabbits gnawing on carrots; farther away, students' chatter and horseplay before class drifted faintly from Green Valley.
"That's right."
The wizard nodded firmly, then hesitated for a few seconds before asking with some concern, "You'll deliver them as soon as possible, right?"
"Leave it to me!" Little Red Riding Hood thumped her chest confidently.
Normally, most people discovered their Christmas presents beside their pillows when they woke on Christmas morning. But in places that took Christmas less seriously, such as Jiu You Academy, there was little fuss about when students received their presents. They might arrive at any time that day.
Like today.
As far as Zheng Qing knew, many of his classmates had been walking around campus when a present