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"Heather!" Lisa cries "How can you--?"

"Because it’s true She didn’t really know us either, or most of her residents, since the majority of the students on her floor are upperclasset here until next weekend Classes don’t start until after Labor Day"

Jas, which means it’s one of the ned to a suite just above it)

"Most of the rooms on the upper floors were chosen in last year’s room selection lottery by upperclasso on, "which means only a few of the roo freshmen and transfer students Since orientation week is only for new students, first year and transfer, most of the upperclassmen don’t choose to arrive until the weekend before classes begin"

"True," Lisa says hesitantly

"So this is sad, but not as sad as if it happened in the ht now, really, are Kaileigh and Airls You’ll pull someone in off the RA wait list to replace Jasmine, and the majority of kids won’t even know there was a death in the building, because it happened before they got here"

"Heather!" Lisa says with a gasp

"I said it was sad I didn’t say it was fair We have to be practical about it"

"This job has hardened you," Lisa says, not unkindly "What if Jasave it to her? What if it’s some kind of deadly--"

"She didn’t," I say flatly "I already checked her trash can and toilet There’s no vomit And Howard Chen has what you have too, and he’s not dead"

"Oh, great" This is Lisa’s first student death--although we’d come close before--and the stress in her voice is al The prince You don’t think there’s a connection, do you, between Jas and the prince?"

"I don’t see how there could be," I say

"He clearly knows her residents"

"I know, but no one said anything about Jaso to Nobu, just Ameera"

But the coincidence--a VIR about whom there’d been death threats, and then a death in the roo for sonore, and Lisa knew it

"Okay," Lisa says firht now"

That’s when I hear a deep voice--fa anywhere except where Heather said, home, to bed"

"Cooper?" Lisa sounds startled "Oh ht, exactly