"Threaten me all you want. I'm not going to end my first class by allowing cheating."
"Is that so?" Jayden stares into your eyes for an uncomfortably long time. "Well. I can't wait to see how your career ends up. Mr. .."
Jayden tosses his incomplete test at you before stomping away.
What a Jerk
You take your lunch break to gather yourself. Your class's final left you shaken. You hadn't expected to have to confront any student, let alone Jayden. And then his threats!
The weird gray trail you saw rising from him bothers you, but that's a problem for future you. Present you has a meeting with the pre-tenure committee this afternoon. You have to be ready for it.
You're composed by the time you join Dr. Ellison in the small conference room where you met Taylor at the start of the semester. "Dr. .." She offers a smile that you suspect is meant to reassure you. It fails miserably at its job. "Thank you for making time for your first pre-tenure review."
Eze sits next to her, doodling on a legal pad. "Shouldn't we wait for Wilcox?" he says without look up from his doodling.
"You were going ahead without me, Chloe?" Wilcox sweeps in the room in his black robes like a one-man murder of crows. "Eze, good to see you as always." He gives you a dismissive nod.
This Will Be Fun