A fire was raging in building down the street, and through the darkness, Atheria's sharp elven vision could see a gigantic form flying through the dar...ness. The creature made another pass over the town, spewing flames down on another building."A dragon!" Atheria breathed in awe and horror."Quickly!" Shalzen urged from where he was sitting, his body giving in too the horrific wounds he had suffered. "Get them away from this place!"Atheria moved without hesitation, silently bidding a farewell to. Fuck this chicken-shit school. You assholes know there ain't nothing wrong with my head. Fuck all of you."My outburst got the attention of everyone on both practice fields; even the band stopped playing for a few seconds. Mr. Boren had no other choice but to reward my actions with the demerit and a promise of a second one if I didn't immediately start running.I ran for two solid hours, stopping to walk only when the pain in my chest got so bad that I had to slow down. Why hadn't I told Ned what. " Borthun said, "But his advance into the city will be sooner rather than later if his spies have made him aware of the Council's efforts to hire mercenaries." Do you appreciate education Borthun?" I asked."Education? Of course. What has that to do with things?" He asked."Do you think there is a limit to what men may learn over time? Could men learn so much that someday they might seem like gods to those who came before them? That what they could achieve would seem like magic?" These are. They looked like they could inflict terrible pain and I wondered what she was going to do with them. She grabbed my nipple and pulled and twisted it until she had extended it beyond what was normal. She took a pin and drove it through the base of my nipple. I screamed like never before from the pain in such a delicate spot. My screams continued as she drove the second pin through my other nipple. She then took both pins and turned them as if she was winding a clock. The pain tore through each.