"So any updates on Nero?" asked Bella with a grave expression as he sat down in the mess for dinner. Around him were not just his barrack-mates, but many other cadets who had shared in the punishment with them.
By now, everyone knew the story of what had actually happened. The hazing for Nero and his group actually involved a prank on one of the senior female cadets. She had done something to her brother, Roland Burns, and as revenge he had planned to send the junior cadets to irritate her.
Everyone else just got caught in the crossfire. The exact details of what the sister had done, and how Roland planned on taking revenge, were not known. Yet everyone more or less realised that they were behind everything.
