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“All I’m saying is it’s utter bullshit that makes no sense is all.” Vin slumped as he walked, arms crossed, his long neck lowered to put his head just off the floor.
They were walking with the flood of students out of the school. The hallway, although not narrow per se, wasn’t quite wide enough for the mass of students trying to navigate it at the end of the day. If you wanted to go against the flow it was generally easiest to just wait a few minutes in your class for everyone to pass.
“Have you tried asking your teacher?”
“Right, like I’m going to talk to that asshole.”
“From what I understand it’s – oh excuse me, I didn’t see you there.” She dodged out of the way of someone standing in the middle of the hall.
“Why, hello,” they said. “Just the people I was hoping to see.”
The hallway around them was suddenly strangely barren. It wasn’t completely empty. but the crowd around them was thin, and people seemed to be clumping up even more densely around the edges of the hallway than before.
“Oh, hey dude,” Vin said.
“Oh. It’s you,” Renee said.
“What?” asked Alcor. “Aren’t you happy to see me?”
Healing and Hijinks Chapter Two
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