DEREK: “How can that be the alpha academy? It looks more like a regular building among the others,” Layla says as we both stare at a building far off from us. The building she was referring to at the moment was one among a few. It came in the model of a regular office building style but had the exterior painting mostly grey which anyone with a taste for color would find weird. “That’s the gist about it,” I say to her as I also look at the building from far off. For me, it was like I was looking at it directly but I know how much of a difficulty she would be going through as she stares at it from here with me. “The regularity of it is just to make it stand out less. That way the operations can be kept on a low,” She scoffs. “I still find it absurd because the idea that it was just this

