Chapter 16:
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"Elise Horroway, please report to the principal's office immediately,"
On the way to her office, my mind raced, what had they thought I'd done, had I broken another unspoken rule— one more serious to them?
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I knocked gently on the wooden door, the sound deafening in the eerie silence. "Enter." It wasnt a question. I opened the door. It didn't creak.
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Victoria Ashford sat behind her desk, arms crossed. Same gray blazer, this time black trousers instead of her pencil skirt, a faint smile on her face. I sat down on the chair in front of her.
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"Elise Horroway," She said my name like it amused her, like she was a movie villan.
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"You're a bright student, just a little.. unseeing. Intelligence without loyalty will, cause some problems between us"
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She leaned forward, savoring every word of hers.
"We wouldn't want that, would we?"
"No Ma'am"
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"Good, so, let's cut to the chase, shall we, I have an offer for you," She leaned back in her chair, relaxed.
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"You stop your little, rebellion, let's call it, and you'll see that your life over here will become a lot easier. Homework assignments and tests will come back with flawless grades, school event judges will suddenly love how you perform, I have the power to rise you further than any other student, all I require is your cooperation."
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She slipped a piece of paper over to me, it was blank, all except the school crest in the top-left corner. For once, my eyes fluttered to what it said underneath:
Morrigan, Themis, Dolos, Frigg
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"Curious?"
"A bit," I admitted
"Then find out"
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She leaned back in her chair
"Anyway, I mean that you become one of our model students, you stop those little investigations of yours, stay in line, the rest, I'll handle."
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Part of me wanted to decline, to tell her that I wasn't afraid of her, but there would be no telling to what ends she would go to to make my life here a living hell. And what other things she'd offered–
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This would be easier. This would be smarter. This was survival.
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and then Add to home screen.