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The sound of the school bell ringing was comforting in a way I couldn’t have ever thought it would be before, when we had to go to school. Now that we hadn’t been able to for a while, it was a reminder to me that it really is a privilege to be able to go to school and learn every day and not have to work or do something else less fun.
A few new students joined us, a couple of guys and a girl, but as far as I could tell, none of them were mages. They seemed to be just regular human children, which was kind of cool because there weren’t a whole lot of them at our school. They were definitely better than the last new student we had show up, that was for certain.
On my way to first period, I passed Mr. Short, the principal, in the hallway. He was whistling a happy song, a big smile on his face. That was my first clue that Fionna hadn’t come
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