"Hi, I'm not really a professor—just a music teacher who specialises in piano. So tell me, is the piano your favourite musical instrument?"
Lucy sat in a small class of ten, her mind too tangled to concentrate. The teacher's voice was just another murmur in the distance.
"Lucy?" Jeremy, her seatmate, whispered, nudging her elbow gently. "He's asking you a question."
She startled back to reality, blinking rapidly as the entire class stared, a few chuckles rippling across the room.
"Errm... my name is—"
The laughter grew louder.
The teacher chuckled warmly. "I know your name, Miss Craig. I asked what your favourite musical instrument was," Mr. Freddie said with patience.
He was a man in his fifties, with a balding head and thick glasses, nothing like Professor Kain, not that she shoul
