I was allowed to leave the hall after breakfast, provided I returned before the afternoon check and didn't turn the walk into an errand across half the academy.
I had become the sort of patient for whom that required saying aloud.
The room looked much as I had left it. Ren had moved the practice chair back against the wall. The primer sat beneath the current restrictions. Nobody had needed to hide it from me, which was either respect or a reasonable refusal to spend the day moving books.
I sat at the desk and opened the Ledger. Three hundred points. Twelve percent deviation. Ten closed slots.
The unchanged balance had survived the last few days better than I had. I opened the offer I had looked at several times without buying.
[ SUCCESSION MANIFEST ]
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VP BALANCE: 300
SCHEMER'S INSIGHT: 200 VP
MARKS OBSERVABLE INCONSISTENCIES
CURRENT SPEECH / CURRENT BEHAVIOR
COOLDOWN: 30 MINUTES
NO THOUGHT OR MEMORY ACCESS
