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Chapter 27: Welcome Freshmen
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2024-10-29 19:42:56Narrator
The first day of school seemed to come in the blink of an eye. Both the Leary children got parental approval for their classes without much trouble. Patrick was going to take a business and public speaking focused set of courses while Moira’s cultural studies route received an abrupt snort from their mother but full and cheerful approval from their father who let them know how much he wished he’d learned to speak other languages instead of having to rely on interpreters.
The highschool was on the edge of the territories near the base of the mountain. It held students from multiple werewolf clans, the human population, a couple of covens, a vampire clan from nearby, and various other species who called the area home. To ensure that everyone got the most pertinent education possible, there was a core of classes including one specific
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