I wandered into Locheed’s room, lost in thought, a few minutes before class started and was immediately encircled by Vanni, Instant and Daneale. I gave them a quick update on the events at my house since the disastrous performance of the excerpt from The Taming of the Shrew, which Vanni now referred to as The Tempest. “Don’t look so down, Jake,” Daneale said. “Everything’s okay now, right?” I nodded, but I wanted to say, No, everything’s not all right. “Glad to hear your dad’s fine, Jake,” Instant said as Locheed made his stately walk to the lectern and we took our seats. “Thanks,” I said. “Vanni was really—” “If you’re quite ready, Mr. Grady,” Locheed interrupted. The Vulture took the roll call and gave a sheaf of papers to the person at the head of each row, to be relayed back. He announced that today’s lesson was to critique a paragraph of descriptive writing. “It’s from a modern novel,” he said in his reedy voice. “As is the custom, I won’t tell you the title or the author’s name, so that your assessment will not be influenced.”
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