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Chapter 16: Hypersecond-banana (Dean Kendrick)

The good dean opens up his chapter with all the right words—he’s in his job because education is in his blood, because he believes in the ideals of the school’s founder—albeit mildly tainted by his other reason of wanting to climb the ladder (tower?) of academia to become Wilderton’s president. But his later admission—he avoids interacting with students—kind of kills the goodwill.

C.T. Beldner is a dogged reporter—and C.T. joins his mirror-image T.C. (Serrette) as another of the few students who merit one-on-one time with school leadership.

@Gord: Thanks for the disconfirmation on that typographical “e”nigma.

@Owen: Noah’s brain runs on an operating system that my brain isn’t big enough to load—but I think his interest in the Society of the Gavel is pretty simple: Secrecy makes their importance impossible to disprove. So you just need to assume they are special. Noah’s mind functions on a philosophical level where that makes perfect sense. (Whereas I’m still back here looking for the philosophy instruction manual.)

@Josh: Headmaster Hartley! I couldn’t think of his name!