For a time, the academy was swamped with the impending changes that new faces were about to appear in the school. It was a very jarring development—jarring for the instructors who had to restructure lesson plans, exciting for the students who craved any disruption to their routine monotony. Most of the academy's administrative resources were redirected toward making the foreign exchange program a reality.
Incidents like Gregor's death were sidelined completely.
The investigation had been perfunctory at best. A first-year butler's son, killed in a Tier 2 Shroud deployment. Tragic, yes. Unusual, no. The recovery team had noted the throat wound, filed their report, and moved on. Others like Lady Harrow has her complaints absorbed by the administrative machinery and quietly ignored. Theodore Selaris had retreated from any direct confrontation, his enforcer's death teaching him a lesson about underestimating the outpost recruits.
