Chapter 80: Meanwhile II (1/2)

ELIJAH KNIGHT'S POV:

Holy crap…

What the hell is going on? All I did wasup, butt-naked, and now a building's on fire?

We had all just rushed out of the disciplinary coht that it was a spell gone wrong or so of that nature, but

This looked more like a purposeful act of terrorism

Who would do this? Why would so on?

"daain," I overheard Theodore say, as if he'd predicted this

The 'the to the same people that beat and humiliated Denton?

KATHYLN GLAYDER'S POV:

I re lectured as a child by my home instructor I had little memory of why I was chastised, but from what I was told, I had refused to participate in class with some of the other nobles' children; apparently, ood idea for

That hadn't work out as s a tantru that I didn't want to make friends with the the kindly knitted words of discipline froed intoto come out

Later that afternoon, after the other noble children and home instructor had left, h there was no lock

She sat down next to h h I couldn't remember how I responded, what she had said toimpression that, even as a six-year-old, I can still almost recall her exact words:

"My little Kathyln, I know you think you did nothing wrong; everyone gets angry and fights for what they believe in What I want you to know, my little baby, is that before you are a princess, you are a person It doesn't e, an elf or a dwarf A person is a person

"Everyone is different and that is what makes everyone special in their oays Don't hate soe What if people didn't like you because you have round ears or because you have beautiful white skin? Or a perky little nose?"

She proceeded to tickleles

My mother was sensible and smart but not in the least bit cold like her appearance sometimes implied She cared for everyone as people, not as humans, elves, or dwarves She disciplined my brother and me heavily when it came to any type of discrimination, whether it was by social classes or race

At the sound of the explosions, all of us bolted up from our seats and ihteningthe disastrous scene laid out before us

There was a thick cloud of s from the area near the center of the caue as she continued toof curses under her breath

Half of the recently-constructed building was up in fla beneath its oeight There were students evacuating out of the building while sooing into the building to look for those stranded or stuck

"I should've known they would ai at some point," Theodore swore aloud as he storound

We hurriedlywas named Tri-Union Hall It served as both a museum and a monument for the alliance between the three races My ued heavily to persuade the rest of the Council to erect this building was the happiest when it was first built

She had explained to me that it had been built to be both a symbol as well as a place for the three races to learn about the differences in each other's cultures

For it to have been a target, my assuroup that had been creating amy tears back

Claire ordered Kai to alert the rest of the professors and staff When she ordered Feyrith and I to help the es ere already there to put out the fire before it brought down the whole building, I couldn't help but notice his expression turning froize, as if it was my fault Doradrea didn't seem to take this whole event to heart but I could tell Feyrith wasn't as e I wanted hiht like this but soood at expressing hts likethe professors that went inside the collapsing building, I spotted the Student Council,their way towards the scene as well

Without even the tiot to work The water attribute es helped put out the fire while earth and wind attributeA couple of other student ot there

I haven't used water attribute spells as frequently after beco the more powerful ice attribute ones but I was still fairly familiar with the spells because of the affinity they had for each other