Location:Obsidian Academy
Date/Time:2 Frostforge, 9941 AZI
Realm:Lower Realm, Doha
The nib touched paper, and Qin made the first letter perfect.
He had not always been this careful. Once, a long way back, his hand had been quick and his temper quicker, and the two together had cost him things he no longer let himself count. The hand was slow now. Every stroke of ink went down exactly where he meant it, because the alternative was to let what he felt get into the writing, and what he felt had no business on an official document.
Student Meiling Lushan. He wrote the name in full, each character spaced as the regulations required. Charge: aggravated assault resulting in the involuntary exposure of two students to a lethal sealed environment. Two counts. He underlined nothing. Underlining was emphasis, and emphasis was feeling, and there would be no feeling on this page.
Three teapots stood at the edge of the desk. Two cold, one going cold. He left all three where they were.
