"The smartest man in the room is the one pretending to be the dumbest. The second smartest is the one who notices."
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The Theoretical Mana Foundations classroom was weird. And I don't mean quirky-professor-with-a-cat-collection weird. I mean the walls bent at angles that would make any architect cry into their blueprints. Crystals in the ceiling broke light into rainbows that slid across every surface like the room was showing off. The air had this static charge to it, the kind that made my arm hair stand up and refuse to sit back down no matter how many times I smoothed it.
