Chapter 12Taisia was a nervous wreck.
Her first class was Trigonometry, and it proved to be a nightmare. Professor Stearns – a thin, ancient woman with a headful of tight silvery curls and a large, hooked nose – ruled the classroom with an iron fist.
One of the students decided to test her cold, scornful demeanor and answer a question with a rapping rhyme. He earned a Disciplinary Device (DD); a compact, wireless pager that professors issued out to rowdy students before sending them off to see the Headmistress.
Professor Stearns scanned the barcode on the student's I.D. card and his information appeared on the screen of the Disciplinary Device.
She thrust the device at him with an unpleasant cackle. “It's activated. That means you have thirty minutes to get it deactivated, and the only
