Dzhan
The dean refuses to make the switch. I don’t use my compulsion on him to make things happen. Finally I offer to split the job between me and Jaia, but the man is adamant that he’s not going to interfere again. It takes everything I have not to snap and do something else I will regret. I promised to control myself though and I am not going to fall on that promise at the first hardship.
Instead, I leave the office and go looking for Jaia. The moment she sees me, she perks up, her yellowish eyes filling with disdain as I approach her at the open yard behind campus. Today there’s faint sun which makes her hair and skin seem almost golden, regal even, and it fills me with respect and confusion, and shame for how I handled things yesterday. She’s a nice girl and I did f*uck things up wit
