“Don’t take it personally, Professor Hagen is always grumpy,” Aellyn said on our way to the dining hall.
“It seemed quite personal,” I replied. I couldn’t afford another teacher incident, not after Master Ryuga’s death. I was already extremely lucky that I hadn’t been expelled.
The Wood Elf’s pink hair bounced with every step she took. “He’s just been extra on edge. Rumour has it that there’s been a human war. I wonder what’s for dinner.”
“Really? A human war?” That lined up with what Zen told me. If that was true, that explained all the teachers’ absence. They were Afterlife Assistants first, teachers second. War brought an overload of souls and if they weren’t guided to the afterlife, that could’ve easily been the beginning of the end. The destruction of so many pained and despaired
