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CHAPTER 11
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“What a bummer! We didn’t even have our turn to touch the Staff!” Lianne exclaimed as we walked in the grounds after we were dismissed.
It turned out that half of the trainees had the same plan as us: to wait until later to get our own time with the Staff. But until Officer Kent announced that they would soon close the Weaponry, the other trainees started crowding the Staff again. Officer Kent had to break the crowd off and dismiss us earlier than intended because of the chaos that was starting.
“Yeah, but we’ll get to it next time. Maybe we can trick Blake into letting us in sometime.” The girls giggled at their idea as I just smiled at them.
The call never stopped while we stayed there. I decided not to bother myself with it, but it just became clearer and clearer. It was disorienting me in a way, as I felt some sort of en
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