At the knock on her door, Rachel smoothly rose to her feet. She gave her newest student a welcoming smile.

"Please, come in, Mr. Gavrilov. Have a seat." She gestured to the comfortable chairs in front of her massive desk. There were piles of papers and blueprints scattered across the top of the cherry wood desk. There might have been a computer buried under some maps of the grounds somewhere. "Please, pardon the mess. Construction is getting closer to completion, and I'm making sure things are in shape for the students."

She crossed around to the front of her desk. The redhead didn't figure she needed the authoritative symbol between them at the moment.