Ian remembered how the principal of Ellie's school shrank into his chair and turned pale. The man had not expected Ellie to be so blunt, and he had been paid well to sweep the matter under the carpet. All he had to do was leak information that Ellie had broken several bones of another student and wait for the calls requesting her expulsion to flood in. When he felt he had sufficient backing from the parent body, he attempted to have Ellie reach out to her parents, but she had the school call the Young Mr. Lee instead.