Another chilling thought forced itself upon my mind: was there a skull for each year? Something that had begun a long time ago, and maybe was still go...ng on? Was there another skull due this year? Who would the unlucky victim be who would have to die for it, if he or she had not already died?I stepped deeper into the cave, behind the altar and the idol, where the light from the cave's mouth did not reach. I had not been close to its back wall yet, assuming there even was one and the cave did. Or would it?I gave it a second thought. Maybe. Just maybe.I started the next day. The plot must be one of the oldest and most used. I didn't close my door completely. I left it open by some centimeters. Just enough for my sister, my target, to be able to look in and see me. See me. Yes. That was something else. She wouldn't think anything if she just saw me. It had to be more. She had to see me naked. Yes. Of course. I shuddered just thinking about it. Mind you we weren't that strict in our. Cancer, maybe. No, it was an infection. Some kind of swollen gland. That's what it is. They would go down in the morning if I put some ice on them. Wouldn't they? * * * No, they wouldn't. They kept growing, a little bit every day, the way these things grow. As time went by, they were harder to hide. At first, they were small, laughably small. A shirt over a shirt, and no one could tell. A jacket, and I was home free. As long as I didn't get caught in a. " He looked directly at the young girl in front of him with his dark iron stair. This was starting be scary, but Sandra told herself it was normal hor a principle to want to frighten his students into staying in line. "Do you understand so far?" he asked her politely. She game a nod and said "Yes sir." "I will let Miss Violet give you a full reading of the rules later, right now I simply want to stress rule number one; You will always obey, to the best of your ability, any order a teacher or.