While Alash Vortex was discovering that leadership apparently involved regulations, responsibilities, and preventing thirty-six people from skipping class,the other four class leaders were receiving the same booklet.
Fortunately for Zenith Academy, none of them reacted to it quite the same way.
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( Class One Residence )
Elizabeth Aurelius had already finished reading half the booklet before the Academy assistant finished explaining what it was.
She sat at one of the large tables in Residence One, posture straight, yellow eyes moving steadily across each page, cataloguing it the way she catalogued everything: once for content, once for what the content implied.
Adrian sat opposite her.
"You know you don't have to memorize it."
Elizabeth turned another page.
"I am not memorizing it."
"You've read every line."
"I am reading it."
"Twice."
"The second reading is for context."
Adrian decided not to ask what the third would be for.
