***** The wind outside blew loudly creating rusting from the backyard as Cassian wrote his essay. It was just past five so he had about an hour before his tutor arrived, but it was already quite dark outside given that it had been very cloudy all day. It did not look like it would be raining though. He kept getting distracted by his thoughts and every few seconds he would have to re-read a line in his textbook because he had drifted off somewhere along the way, eventually he let out a sigh as he dropped his pen and looked over at the windows. The curtains were drawn so he could see outside. It was amusing that he seemed more distracted without his phone nearby despite it having been a few days since he had last seen or used it. He had attended the meeting with his father earlier and it tu

