“Max Kuemper, I want you to listen when I tell you that you are nobody’s charity case, and nothing that happened to you in the past predicates what you deserve now. I don’t ever want to hear you say that again. You don’t deserve a single thing that has happened to you, and if I ever learn who did that to you—" He halts, backpedaling before he verbally threatens a student. “Well, I’d have a chat with them, anyway.”
