1966 -- Year 6
“Shit, Blast, Buggering Fuck, Damn!” Amelia let her voice carry, to the dismay of the handful of younger students milling about the side of the pond that she was currently occupying, throwing stones with all of her might into the water-- the thwacking sound soothing the rage that she felt in her. An Acceptable? Binns had given her an... Acceptable? She’d labored over the bloody fucking Gblin Wars essay for two weeks, constantly editing and rewriting it-- the delivery felt like a blow to her stomach and after receiving it she nearly stormed out of the classroom on sight.
But she didn’t. She suffered through it, and then suffered through a lunch where she refused to speak to anyone for five minutes, only long enough to grab toast and a glass of pumpkin juice muttering a “See you later” before she huffed out of the Hall and came here, where every bad grade she ever got could be pounded into the water until her arm was sore and she felt marginally better.
She picked up another rock now, too large to get more than half a meter or so, when she felt an arm on her arm, pulling it back.
“Hey!”




















