It went without saying that as Atticus told Aurora and the other Ravenstein youth about the Alverian family's involvement, another brutality occurred throughout the academy campus.
Lark and the other first years had been hunted and brutally beaten into a pulp.
Words could not begin to describe how much relief the 100 division members felt as they were freed.
They all approached and knelt down in front of Atticus's mansion while chanting his name and thanking him.
Atticus, as usual, occasionally hung out with Zoey, Ember, and Kael, who since that day had been looking at him strangely.
He occasionally made reference to the one-year time he asked Atticus to battle with him as though he wanted to cancel it and fight immediately.
But after witnessing Atticus's battle with the third years, Kael had confirmed his earlier assumption: Atticus had been greatly holding back during their battle.
