When Nanny is called to replace Ama Clutch as Elphaba and Glinda's chaperone at Shiz University, Nessarose joins her, and thus begins her college education a year earlier than she had originally planned. Along with Elphaba and Glinda, Nessarose is chosen by Madame Morrible to be an Adept, a trained sorceress with political authority over a particular area, which was in Nessarose's case the South (Quadling Country). Like the other two girls, she rejects the position, but, again like her fellows, she eventually finds herself ruling a province of Oz, albeit a different one than Madame Morrible had suggested. When Elphaba drops out of university without a word to her, Nessarose is both devastated and furious, and harbors resentment toward her sister for a long time. Glinda mentions that she helped Nessarose through the aftermath of Elphaba's departure, and that the two became quite close.