Spitfire
Super-Earth
- Joined
- Jan 22, 2023
Selene was a stellar student, no one could deny. She had graduated at the top of her class and made it into one of the most prestigious magic schools in the world. The fact that she was on scholarship wasn't something she wanted to advertise but unlike many of her classmates, she didn't come from a wealthy family with a network of connections to get her into the place. All of that, added to the fact that she didn't look the part of a typical student, made Selene stand out all the more, and often in the worst ways.
However, she had promised her parents and her ailing grandfather, that she would make the best of this opportunity and she was diligent in doing so. She stayed out of trouble while other co-eds partied away most of their university years. She didn't feel as though she was missing out by not attending parties though, preferring quiet and orderly to chaotic and unpredictable. Even her club activities were serious to her. Women of Witchery Law Club, Wish Contract Debate Club, The Governing Secret Societies Club. Every one designed to make her a better student so she could some day be a better lawyer.
Her laser focus got her fantastic grades but zero friends. And then she began to annoy some of her Professors by questioning them in class. One in particular seemed to contradict himself and when she called attention to it, she was like a dog with a bone and absolutely could not let it go. She would be a great lawyer if she could make it through school without upsetting teachers so much that they fail her out of spite. The irony of calling a law student 'argumentative' was not lost on her.
Apparently said Professor had found his breaking point with her and told her that she would be assigned another student to tutor. She thought he saw potential in her so was giving her an chance to prove herself by helping him teach someone else. It didn't occur to her that this was one of the duties of his teaching assistant. Then she found out which student she was assigned. HIM?! "Please Professor, anyone but him." She was told that if she didn't feel she was up to the challenge, he would rescind his recommendation for her. "No. No, it's fine. I'll make it work." And she intended to. Somehow.
Ten minutes early to the negotiated time, she lined up her books, notebooks, sticky notes, pens, pencils, and backup writing utensils on the table of the small table in a side study room at the library. While she waited on him, she read the next chapter in the biography about the first female president of the university, who had been a law student at the very school she returned to after a decades long career in magical defense law.
However, she had promised her parents and her ailing grandfather, that she would make the best of this opportunity and she was diligent in doing so. She stayed out of trouble while other co-eds partied away most of their university years. She didn't feel as though she was missing out by not attending parties though, preferring quiet and orderly to chaotic and unpredictable. Even her club activities were serious to her. Women of Witchery Law Club, Wish Contract Debate Club, The Governing Secret Societies Club. Every one designed to make her a better student so she could some day be a better lawyer.
Her laser focus got her fantastic grades but zero friends. And then she began to annoy some of her Professors by questioning them in class. One in particular seemed to contradict himself and when she called attention to it, she was like a dog with a bone and absolutely could not let it go. She would be a great lawyer if she could make it through school without upsetting teachers so much that they fail her out of spite. The irony of calling a law student 'argumentative' was not lost on her.
Apparently said Professor had found his breaking point with her and told her that she would be assigned another student to tutor. She thought he saw potential in her so was giving her an chance to prove herself by helping him teach someone else. It didn't occur to her that this was one of the duties of his teaching assistant. Then she found out which student she was assigned. HIM?! "Please Professor, anyone but him." She was told that if she didn't feel she was up to the challenge, he would rescind his recommendation for her. "No. No, it's fine. I'll make it work." And she intended to. Somehow.
Ten minutes early to the negotiated time, she lined up her books, notebooks, sticky notes, pens, pencils, and backup writing utensils on the table of the small table in a side study room at the library. While she waited on him, she read the next chapter in the biography about the first female president of the university, who had been a law student at the very school she returned to after a decades long career in magical defense law.
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