A week passed. Once a month, Divinity Magic class had been tolerable. Now, with Mari's presence, it was like he had to sit through that class every day, like an injested poison. She preached the words of the gods, and he felt the sickening presence of divinity all the time.
She smiled like she meant it, laughed at things he said., and even asked him about his dreams.
And Kai lied through his teeth.
He never had time to present the fabricated backstory he had crafted prior to enrolling, not once. Everyone assumed he cheated his way into Thesiones, and frankly, he was content to let them think so.
But Mari was different. She didn't just believe the rumours; she wondered. One day, she asked him point-blank.
"Everyone says you paid someone off to get in here."
"And?"
"Well... Did you?"
"Of course not..." Kai sighed. "My master, someone the headmaster knew, sent me here with a letter of recommendation."
