After several weeks back on campus, the days grew busy enough to distract Amalia from a paralyzing grief over the death of her father and brother. She stood before the photocopy machine, printing materials for a finance theories class later that afternoon, anticipating what the professor needed as handouts and reading assignments for the uninterested freshmen required to take his intro course.
On the second floor of the liberal arts academic building was Dr. Jonah West"s office, a ten-by-ten box he"d crammed full of books and journals, the occasional scraps of ledger paper discretely shoved between issues of Business World magazine, and the hopes of someday publishing his own college curriculums. As Amalia stared across the hall from the floor"s admin area, he scribbled notes on a student
