Chapter eighteen
SuviAs members of the same Soli, many teachers struggle to remain impartial with their Cloud students.
Know Your Students — a Junior Educator’s Handbook to the Soli, Severnessan Ministry of Stations
The sewer ceiling caved in. Suvi screamed as the man who had been about to attack her disappeared under a pile of bricks and the substantial form of Ludde Armstrong. The others in Calaan’s patrol scattered in terror, running back up the sewer or through the portal.
Chasing them didn’t seem worth the bother, so he let them go. “All right?”
She nodded as he knelt to cut her bonds. “Ludde... Thank the saints. I am so happy to see you.”
He stood and backed away from her. “Are you?”
His bitterness was obvious, like a wall between them. Suvi got to her feet, rubbing her wrists
