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78. “You weren’t supposed to hear that.”

This got significantly longer than I expected it to. If anyone’s having trouble with the cut on mobile, let me know and I’ll just publish it on AO3 instead. 

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She remembers hearing about Professor Solo on the campus tour. Some brave soul asked their guide whose classes to avoid, much to the embarrassment of his parents who quickly tried to shush him. Their guide answered anyway, though, saying, “If you can, avoid Professor Solo at all costs.”

She didn’t give a reason. She didn’t even say which classes he taught. Which is how Rey Jackson finds herself sitting in the vast lecture hall, staring in horror at the syllabus that had been placed on the little desk.

How could she has missed it? How could she have completely overread the instructor’s name? She was too wooed by the idea of taking an entire semester of Gothic literature, it seems, and now she has to pay the price.

“Good morning.”

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