Chapter 203:Thinking V/s Charging
The silence in the grand, crystalline Rest Stop was a living thing. It was thick, heavy, and poisoned with the collective, stinging humiliation of the Academy's elite.
The soft, ethereal music and the gentle splash of the mana fountain, which should have been soothing, now felt like a mocking soundtrack to their failure.
My team—Team Anomaly—had become the accidental villains of the story. We sat in a loose, quiet circle on the grass, our mana full, our armor clean. Alex, Kaelen, and Gideon were nervously munching on the complimentary (and magically replenishing) fruit from the trees, trying to avoid making eye contact with anyone.
The Twins were, as usual, completely invisible, having already faded back into the shadows of the surrounding grove, sensing the shift in the social atmosphere.
