I stood behind Eselin as she clapped her hands, the sharp sound cutting through the chatter around the girls' side of the circular street. Heads turned toward her almost immediately, and a moment later dozens of curious eyes shifted onto me.
"A boy will be entering the dormitory in five minutes," Eselin announced. "Please finish what you're doing, leave the showers, and return to your rooms until we're done."
A wave of whispers spread through the street.
"Why's he going inside?"
"Isn't that Ace?"
"What happened?"
I resisted the urge to sigh. Man... the way she announced it made me sound like some rabid dog that'd start drooling the second I saw a girl. I kept that thought to myself, though.
Eselin walked over to a nearby bench and sat down.
