{ZEPHYROS}
"Even for you—bored as you are—you would not toy with a student without reason. What made that girl catch your attention?"
Valtheris's voice drifted lazily through the air, velvety and amused, as if he were already certain he knew the answer. The sound grated on my nerves.
I did not dignify him immediately with a response.
Instead, I hovered a few feet above the floor, reclining in the air as I flipped a page of the book in my hands. My legs dangled idly. My tone, when I finally spoke, was as bored as the dust on these ancient shelves.
"Nothing of note," I drawled. "I merely deduced she was new. She failed to flee the moment the clock struck six."
"That alone?" Valtheris stepped forward, his boots silent upon the marble. "Other new students have done the same. Yet you did not torment them."
I clicked my tongue. "How rude. I did not torment her. I simply… educated her."
