“I wonder why you bother coming to my lessons, Miss Blackwaters, if you’re going to miss a good chunk of the start and sleep all the way through the remainder.” I look up and find Stone sitting behind his desk, his boots resting on the surface, his hands clutched behind his head, a book balanced in his lap. “And I wonder why you bother showing up to lessons seeing as you don’t actually seem to want to teach us anything.”

