CHAPTER 7 The days were passing at a painfully slow crawl. It seemed every lecturer on campus had miraculously picked the same date for his or her major essays and assignments to be due. The stress levels were palpable as everyone attempted to juggle multiple projects. Most students had dark shadows under their eyes and sallow complexions, like they hadn’t slept for days. Many of them hadn’t. It felt like the week would never end. Seb had been putting in long hours at the studio on campus working on a big folio hand-in, so Emilia had got into the habit of studying in the library until he was finished. Unfortunately, the library seemed to be the epicentre of stress. Every desk had an anxious looking student at it, surrounded by books, empty cans of energy drink and crumpled bags of

