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there was a tw for bullying and i was like that makes sense it's a private magic school for rich snobs of course there will be bullies and the bullying is these grown ass boys (they're like 18 that's grown i think) making younger students carry their stuff or pushing them around or spitting in food and making them eat it so i was like ooof ok that's rough hope someone intervenes THEN the waterboarding started ???

love that the chapter have fun titles and very charmed by that friend group already

mostly really liking that the students, while typically pretentious (given the private school setting etc), still talk like actual human beings (you don't get that a lot in "YA dark academia" bc the authors have never heard a teenager speak or try too hard to force it and the characters end up sounding like outdated tumblr posts)