7 Good or Bad Teacher?
Councilor Mariana Perez
Head of Resource Assignments
The sign on Councilor Perez’s door stared back at Brant and waited impatiently for him to knock. Yet he couldn’t. Were she and Jefferson friends? Did she know about the AI War? Probably. But what about the attack on the school?
The councilors always presented a united front. Did councilors gossip about soldiers and instructors as he gossiped about his students? What was said about Brant between his bosses?
Brant stood there, raised his fist, took a breath, lowered it, bounced on his feet, raised it again—
The door swished open.
Brant jumped back into battle stance. Then hung his head. She had a camera on the door, of course.
“Come in,” Perez’s voice called from her office desk, and Brant dragged his feet
