The next week dragged along agonisingly slowly, each lesson seemingly lasting for hours, while breaktimes with Delyth flitted past in mere moments. The odious student reps were rarely far away and gleefully wrote Chase up several times for ridiculously minor infractions. Thankfully, he managed to avoid another run-in with Headmaster Thorne, who strangely never called him in about the whole detention fiasco.
He was pleased to discover that the ever-present sense of sickness and confusion lessened somewhat as the week went on, precisely as Delyth had promised it would. But an ever-expanding mountain of homework, rigorously completed under threat of having his grounding extended, meant that he didn’t have much opportunity to ponder the time-warping conundrum that dogged his days.
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