The wind roared around campus this time of night. Temperatures had dropped to close to freezing, and clouds blocked out most of the fragile light of the moon.
Perfect time to ring the fire alarm for a test, right? Right.
Somewhere deep in the middle of the night, the alarm went off. Loudly. So grab what you can and bustle on outside, students
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As a result, she was now standing outside, in her underwear with her longcoat thrown haphazardly over her shoulders.
She was also wielding a knife, though no longer in any kind of active sense. She just had nowhere to put it.
And she seemed very, very annoyed.
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Cassandra was possibly not the best person to ask, but she was armed, and Hanna was wishing she was. Maybe she could smother someone with the blanket?
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She was looking around and doing another visual sweep just in case.
"I do not understand the meaning of this."
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"This is your first 'fire drill'?"
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Plus she couldn't think of anything really good.
"They test our reaction time," she explained. "If the building were on fire, could we get out in time?"
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But still, ugh. One would think drills were more useful if the students were informed they may occur and how to behave.
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"No," she said.
That would be disrespectful.
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Because they were subordinates, surely.
"But it is not our place to enforce it."
Just to judge. A lot.
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