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"Heather!" One of the freshh Harris Two of her suite h’s ht behind her

It’s way too early for this

"Heather," Kaileigh says, when she reaches me "Did you hear what happened? They fired all the RAs!"

"Well," I say "Not all of them Only the ones ent to the prince’s party"

"But it’s not fair," Nishi, her suite mate, cries "The RAs are students, just like us"

"Yeah," Chantelle, Kaileigh’s other suite mate, says "Why should they be punished when none of the rest of us got punished?"

No Not this Not before I’ve had coffee

"You guys," I say "I’ I don’t think the rest of you should be punished, because believe me, I do But do you think it’s possible there’s irl died, and the RAs covered up knowing at least a little about why--"and that s aren’t alhat they seeht before

"Oh, no," a fourth girl says, sto over one shoulder "Things are exactly how they seean, told me The fact is that you, the administrators, don’t care about us, the students, the people who pay your salary! Well, it’s tie We want our RAs back! We Want Our RAs Back!"

Her chant is quickly picked up by the rest of the students, soan is one of thelasses as she marches around in front of the hall

I resolve to an’s final paycheck takes quite a circuitous route in getting to her, wherever Megan ends up after

"Ms Wells," Mrs Harris sidles up to me to say She looks worried I can hardly bla about this?"

"I do," I say, forcing a smile onto my face "Please don’t worry about it, Mrs Harris We have soreat candidates in line to replace the RAs we’ve lost"

Well, one great candidate

"We’ve already met him," Mrs Harris says bleakly Today she’s dressed all in tones of leether so early in thedinner in the cafeteria, your assistant, whatever her na him around No offense, Ms Wells, but are you aware he’s blind? Our daughter’s going fro to work? What if there’s a fire?"

I look upward at the overcast sky, fighting for patience