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Xander Noble
While Ember grappled with staying true to her Alt in spite of personal tragedy, another resident of Tranquility, Xander Noble, was just as busy resisting.
Thinking back, Xander knew that he was a true rebel, even in his very young years.
In elementary school, he was indifferent to what was being taught. Emotional Training had been a waste of his time. Why couldn’t he speak his mind? Wasn’t how he thought important?
But for the most part, it aggravated him to see other people being upbeat all the time, trying so hard to please. To Xander, it was phony. By the time he was in middle school, he began to realize that life—and people he knew—would always be this way. He found himself upset ‘round the clock, especially going through adolescence, and he had never been able to
