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XENIA It was odd to go this many days without being bullied in Hailsmith, but I’d somehow been at peace for a good while. I took special comfort in the fact that the girls who’d ambushed me twice in horrific ways hadn’t attacked me of late or sent me any annoying notes in the hallway like they’d been doing before. It was no coincidence that they went quiet since Matteo’s announcement that no one was allowed to bully me anymore, it simply proved to me that they’d been doing his bidding and he put an end to it to get Thekla off his back. Sweet, thoughtful Thekla. I’d have been f*****g toast without her help, the gods know. I was reveling in that thought when someone bumped shoulders with me in the hallway and I was pulled back to reality. “Sorry, excuse me,” the said person apologized i