1. Klang!

When I wake up the next day, I just want to dive back under the covers and sulk like a petulant teenager. The memories of last night ring in my head, causing something like a headache. But today is a day full of lectures, and if I want to make it to the King’s College university on time all the way from Clandestine city, I have to be quick.

After taking care of all my needs, I sneak out of the house through one of the back doors. Technically, I could call my own personal driver and have him drop me off at the campus.

But where’s the fun in that?

So, I take the train straight to Empire city and then use the tram to drop right at the entrance to the university.

For some time, the day went on peacefully. I attended the lectures, took notes, talked with the professors about any doubts I had, got them cleared out, and moved around the campus.

But then the lunch break came.

The cafeteria is crowded, as is the norm, and I make my way to the food court as discreetly as possible so as not to derive any attention from myself. By now, I’m aware that there is danger lurking on campus grounds, danger directed at me. And I have to do my damndest best to dodge it.

But I am only one person, and there isn’t a Gerald around to save my ass. And my luck is the shittiest on the planet.

course, the sharks start to smell blood

me as soon as I stand in the lunch line, and I feel

towards my nemesis, “Hello

skittering eyes. His hair is a right mess, devoid of its usual array of styling. His clothes are in a similar state, his shirt is buttoned wrong, his pants lined with dirt, and his shoelaces are untied. His whole body looks like it’s shivering. There’s a five o’clock shadow on his face, and it’s still noon.

what you’ve done to me. To my family, and my future. You destroyed

I made Gerald do, but then I remember the very

Stone,” I notify him, my voice hard, “I gave you plenty of chances to leave me alone, but you kept pushing and pushing until you broke

harmless prank,” he insists, and I feel

in the book, and fucking up my own life too many times than I could count. That harmless prank of yours was not all

wild, “you could’ve taken

him, “you should’ve remembered that.”

is the wrong thing to say, because as soon as the words leave my mouth, on me, hands clenched

Stone pounces

me to breathe. His fists rain down on my face, and the pain is so excruciating that for a second I forget to defend myself. He’s like a wild animal, his blows unfocused but strong, and through the blinding pain of getting my head pommeled, I manage to shove him off me and scramble to

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