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“Welcome back, students! I’m so happy to see all your smiling faces once more. Now, as you know, we’ve had some difficult times the last few months at Mount Olympus Academy. Let’s not focus on the past, though. Instead, turn your young faces to the future. For many of you this is your last year at Mount Olympus and I can already see so many of those futures will be bright.”
That’s how Themis begins her fall term speech. She’s definitely understating the problems by categorizing them as “difficult.” Several students burned to death. Then there was the Spring Fling dance being invaded by monsters. And finally this summer’s disastrous raid which left even more students dead. If things keep going this way, they’re gonna need new brochures that read, “Mount Olympus Academy: We Sure Hope You
