Sophia "Took you long enough to make your short trip till here." Professor Dickens shot a look at me with one of his bushy eyebrows raised as he scoffed busy with the bundle of assignments he gave us last week, sorting them on his desk. I stood there binding my hands not looking him straight in the eyes because that would be disrespectful and only escalate things. By now, I knew what I was called for. Looking at him scattering the bunch of assignment sheets and then scratching his head before going back to dispersing them like a painter gliding its brush right and left on the canvas only strengthened my suspicions. My heart started beating erratically in my chest the moment a sheet with a name too familiar revealed itself among its fellow sisters not afraid of leaving her family whe