"The school does like to reward good behavior though, so work hard and be good and I'm sure you'll be unlocked soon enough for a little break, okay? I...just can't be the one to do that. I can only do what I'm told to by the training faculty, dear.Now, go back to your dorm and keep waiting for your classes to start. I’ll see you in two days for your next inspection.”~The next two days seemed to go on forever. I couldn’t get the nurse out of my head and the idea of getting hard and being able to. The band was decent and they played a lot of Helen's favorite songs. I was busy talking about bowling and tournaments and Helen had wandered over to where the band was taking their break to make a request and they asked her to join them. During their next break I saw Helen standing with the drummer, but I didn't think anything of it. If I thought anything it was probably that she was requesting another song.Later in the evening, Mike, the captain of one of the other teams asked me if I would. He’s self educated. His school growing up was a one room schoolhouse, until he got to highschool. Highschool had not been fun for the two years he had of it. His one room school had taught him to sight read, that is to memorize what every word he learned looked like. He hadn’t learned many in that environment.Today that’s inconceivable. Today we learn phonics, and sounding out words. Highschool taught Dad he had missed out on a big leg up on education. So he quit school when his dad asked him. Whereas his father Edwin’s first order of business was to grant full rights and citizenship to all native elves, it was Ceril’s first act to revoke said rights and outlaw worship of the elven deities, a religion which his own father had adopted as his own in the latter years of his life. The madness only grew from there going so far as to execute Nevec Varyn, the first ever elf appointed to the royal council, for the murder of his father, the very man who had appointed him, a crime which he.