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Chapter 42

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Violet

A few moments of silence passed and I turned back to my laptop to pick up my work, discarding options and keeping others.

“Why would you want to build a college?” I set my jaw at the question. “The Academy’s not good enough for you?”

I took a deep breath and looked at him. I wanted to t
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You have no idea how much I appreciate the realistic tackling of socially sanctioned and encouraged sexism. It's a constant uphill battle, but necessary. Seeing it so well expressed is refreshing in a genre that is lousy with excused violent misogyny at worse and benevolent patriarchy at best
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