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"Well?" Alcántara looked like his patience earing thin already Apparently, Frost wasn’t every teacher’s pet My feelings for the Spanish vahtest bit gratifying "Why don’t you begin by outlining the details of your personal assignet you were?"

So there was a ned victim was Trainee Farm Boy? He’d asked that our assassinations have some sort of poetic twist Horrific Alcántara wanted a story, and I was suddenly curious to hear Frost’s

"Yes," Frost said "Trainee Marlin Grosse was nment"

I searched my memory banks…Marlin Grosse I’d never met him--I mostly knew the Trainees in Yasuo’s circle--but I pictured a tall, gangly guy with a blond buzz cut Grosse--I’d assumed it was German, but it could’ve easily been Norse Had he been in one of Frost’s advanced Norse classes? She was obsessed with it--if he’d been coursson’s attentions, I’ll bet she hadn’t liked that one bit

"Due to our y, we’ve had several classes together," she said, confirned Trainee because…"

She faltered, and I shot up in limpse into the truth of Frost’s tiny heart?

She cleared her throat "Marlin has troubled et To force me to face my…problems"

She’d been about to say face my fears--I’d have put ers, cocked his head, and furrowed his brow "What is the nature of the trouble he’s given you?" His fake sympathy made me sick

"He tried things," she said siuess what those things were Sos Rob had tried things with y easy" The way her eyes pinched at the corners told ot hied an to unfold a square of linen, and everyone--even Alcántara--leaned forward to see "The next question hich weapon to use?" She revealed the long, thin knife that’d been tucked inside

I craned et a better look I knew for a fact this wasn’t her weapon--she carried so (of course)--and at closer inspection, this didn’t seem like the typical choice at all Sure, it was a knife, but the blade looked shoddy, like it was a kitchen iht on the cheap rather than a prized weapon

"Tell us about this crude blade," Alcántara said

"When considering how to do it," she continued, "how to kill hian with his name Marlin Grosse From there, it was simple"

"Simple…how?" Alcántara seemed interested now

Frost clearly liked the attention I watched her loosen up War knife that I…borrowed froh her lashes and smiled at Alcántara She loved the vampires, loved life on this island, and it made me sick to watch her fawn like this

"Fine, fine," Alcántara said, sounding inificance of this choice"

"I’m from Maine," she continued The warain "My father was…is…a fisher knife"

There were a couple of chuckles in the roo A boy like Marlin would’ve had the same reaction"

"And that is why you chose this particular blade?"

"Well, that and the fact that his na for the diet it--"like the fish"

"Lovely," Alcántara cooed "Tell us how you orchestrated your execution"

She nodded, and though her gaze was ai but what she saw in her own head "Marlin was going to, you know, forceWhat the hell had Frost gone through? What e all going through? And ere soit alone? She hated me, but she could’ve trustedon for her

"He kissed s…he said it would only hurt a little bit I let him kiss me while I slipped the knife fro That it would hurt a lot For him And that’s when I did it I stabbed him"

You could’ve heard a pin drop Nobody made a sound Nobody, that is, until Alcántara broke the silence with a majestic slow-clap