"I need a volunteer, themarian students."
Katherine knew. Katherine knew that Riley Ross becoming some sort of teacher was bad, really bad. She never would have thought in a million years that he would actually be passing on knowledge to someone, but now here he is.
Out of all the things that could happen, out of all the possibilities, the universe was now bearing witness to the worse thing that could ever happen to it—the most unholy creature in the entire universe will be teaching the strongest species in the entire universe how to inflict as much pain to someone else as much as possible.
Katherine wanted to cover her face, and unbeknownst to her, she was actually already doing so. The air around the lecture hall became extremely thick with silence; no one was even looking at each other and were just blankly staring at Riley.
A second.
A minute.