To any outsider, Susan Caldwell, who grew up in Veridia, and Vera Xavier, who grew up in Crestfall, should have had very little to do with each other. Yet here Susan was, her face grim, stewing in silence, unable to offer any real explanation.
After hearing what Vera Xavier said, the crowd of students understood everything.
Susan Caldwell had never been so humiliated. She tried to leave, but Vera Xavier wasn't about to let her get away. Vera reached out and grabbed her. She was much stronger than Susan, who couldn't break free from her grasp at all.
Vera Xavier looked at Susan Caldwell coldly. "You know, I can understand why you're jealous of me. I am, after all, quite exceptional! But to be so jealous of my excellence that you'd try to slander me, to crush me under your heel, without any regard for the lives of others—that's just what people call being vicious. So, Classmate Susan Caldwell, I have to ask: do your parents know you're this malicious?"
