Willa Shilira is sitting in the back of the class and she's very unhappy about it, but you couldn't tell that by looking at her. She has less Chelish dignity and stonefaced composure in her than perhaps any of the other students, but that's still plenty enough to be unassuming in a crowd of almost two dozen. (She's mentally acute enough to count the twenty-three visible people in the room while barely thinking about it, but not perceptive enough to even notice Broom being the twenty-fourth.)

She messed up and she knows it and she's mostly just sulking, angry at herself. There's a simmering annoyance with Asmodia for being nasty to her, and still a lingering resentment towards Sevar for capturing most of her soul-profits, but in the end the reason she can't be a model student actor agent is that she's too interested in learning and not interested enough in winning. It's a terrible failing in her and it's worse that she knows deep down that it's still true, it's not something she knows how to change in herself.

She's not going to be able to distinguish herself to Keltham by asking clever questions, and honestly even if she was she maybe couldn't trust herself to do it safely. Instead she'll have to distinguish herself to Asmodia by thinking useful thoughts. Then maybe eventually Asmodia won't hate her anymore she'll be out of the doghouse and at less risk for washing out entirely.

Willa Shilira is sitting in the back of the class and she's very unhappy about it, but you couldn't tell that by looking at her. She has less Chelish dignity and stonefaced composure in her than perhaps any of the other students, but that's still plenty to be unassuming in a crowd of almost two dozen. (She's mentally acute enough to count the twenty-three visible people in the room while barely thinking about it, but not perceptive enough to even notice Broom being the twenty-fourth.)

She messed up and she knows it and she's mostly just sulking, angry at herself. There's a simmering annoyance with Asmodia for being nasty to her, and still a lingering resentment towards Sevar for capturing most of her soul-profits, but in the end the reason she can't be a model student actor agent is that she's too interested in learning and not interested enough in winning. It's a terrible failing in her and it's worse that she knows deep down that it's still true, it's not something she knows how to change in herself.

She's not going to be able to distinguish herself to Keltham by asking clever questions, and honestly even if she was she maybe couldn't trust herself to do it safely. Instead she'll have to distinguish herself to Asmodia by thinking useful thoughts. Then maybe eventually Asmodia won't hate her anymore she'll be out of the doghouse and at less risk for washing out entirely.

Willa Shilira is sitting in the back of the class and she's very unhappy about it, but you couldn't tell that by looking at her. She has less Chelish dignity and stonefaced composure in her than perhaps any of the other students, but that's still plenty to be unassuming in a crowd of almost two dozen. (She's mentally acute enough to count the twenty-three visible people in the room while barely thinking about it, but not perceptive enough to even notice Broom being the twenty-fourth.)

Willa came into the project bright eyed and excited about Law and learning and superpowers, desperate to be special. She was so desperate for it that when a chance to ask questions came up, she tried to ask one mostly just to show off:

"Of course if the project is so important we should all be getting intelligence headbands, right, and I can put that impertinent demand in fancy probability language to prove I understood the homework too! I didn't stop to think that economic reasons were a trivial concern and that the real thing I should be worried about was fooling Keltham, even though you just gave a giant speech about how the important thing was fooling Keltham. So obviously I'm a complete idiot and you should never trust me with anything at all!"

That's not actually what she said, but it might as well have been. They didn't torture her for it at all which was super weird, but now alter Willa is 'studious, shy, and hesitant.' Forever. Choke her with a rusty spoon.

She messed up and she knows it and she's mostly just sulking, angry at herself. There's a simmering annoyance with Asmodia for forcing alter Willa on her, and still a lingering resentment towards Sevar for capturing most of her soul-profits, but in the end the reason she can't be a model student actor agent is that she's too obsessed with being special and not obsessed enough with winning. It's a terrible failing in her and it's worse that she knows deep down that it's still true, it's not something she knows how to change in herself.

She's not going to be able to distinguish herself to Keltham by asking clever questions, and honestly even if she was she maybe couldn't trust herself to do it safely. Instead she'll have to distinguish herself to Asmodia by thinking useful thoughts. Then maybe eventually Asmodia won't hate her anymore she'll be out of the doghouse and at less risk for washing out entirely.

Willa Shilira is sitting in the back of the class and she's very unhappy about it, but you couldn't tell that by looking at her. She has less Chelish dignity and stonefaced composure in her than perhaps any of the other students, but that's still plenty to be unassuming in a crowd of almost two dozen. (She's mentally acute enough to count the twenty-three visible people in the room while barely thinking about it, but not perceptive enough to even notice Broom being the twenty-fourth.)

Willa came into the project bright eyed and excited about Law and learning and superpowers, desperate to be special. She was so desperate for it that when a chance to ask questions came up, she tried to ask one mostly just to show off:

"Of course if the project is so important we should all be getting intelligence headbands, right, and I can put that impertinent demand in fancy probability language to prove I understood the homework too! I didn't stop to think that economic reasons were a trivial concern and that the real thing I should be worried about was fooling Keltham, even though you just gave a giant speech about how the important thing was fooling Keltham. So obviously I'm a complete idiot and you should never trust me with anything at all!"

That's not actually what she said, but it might as well have been. They didn't torture her for it at all which was super weird, but now alter Willa is 'studious, shy, and hesitant.' Forever. Choke her with a rusty spoon.

She messed up and she knows it and she's mostly just sulking, angry at herself. There's a simmering annoyance with Asmodia for forcing alter Willa on her, and still a lingering resentment towards Sevar for capturing most of her soul-profits, but in the end the reason she can't be a model student actor agent is that she's too obsessed with being special and not obsessed enough with winning. It's a terrible failing in her and it's worse that she knows deep down that it's still true, it's not something she knows how to change.

She's not going to be able to distinguish herself to Keltham by asking clever questions, and honestly even if she was she maybe couldn't trust herself to do it safely. Instead she'll have to distinguish herself to Asmodia by thinking useful thoughts. Then maybe eventually Asmodia won't hate her anymore she'll be out of the doghouse and at less risk for washing out entirely.

Willa Shilira is sitting in the back of the class and she's very unhappy about it, but you couldn't tell that by looking at her. She has less Chelish dignity and stonefaced composure in her than perhaps any of the other students, but that's still plenty to be unassuming in a crowd of almost two dozen. (She's mentally acute enough to count the twenty-three visible people in the room while barely thinking about it, but not perceptive enough to even notice Broom being the twenty-fourth.)

Willa came into the project bright eyed and excited about Law and learning and superpowers, desperate to be special. She was so desperate for it that when a chance to ask questions to The Chosen of Asmodeus came up, she tried to ask one mostly just to show off:

"Of course if the project is so important we should all be getting intelligence headbands, right, and I can put that impertinent demand in fancy probability language to prove I understood the homework too! I didn't stop to think that economic reasons were a trivial concern and that the real thing I should be worried about was fooling Keltham, even though you just gave a giant speech about how the important thing was fooling Keltham. So obviously I'm a complete idiot and you should never trust me with anything at all!"

That's not actually what she said, but it might as well have been. They didn't torture her for it at all which was super weird, but now alter Willa is 'studious, shy, and hesitant.' Forever. Choke her with a rusty spoon.

She messed up and she knows it and she's mostly just sulking, angry at herself. There's a simmering annoyance with Asmodia for forcing alter Willa on her, and still a lingering resentment towards Sevar for capturing most of her soul-profits, but in the end the reason she can't be a model student actor agent is that she's too obsessed with being special and not obsessed enough with winning. It's a terrible failing in her and it's worse that she knows deep down that it's still true, it's not something she knows how to change.

She's not going to be able to distinguish herself to Keltham by asking clever questions, and honestly even if she was she maybe couldn't trust herself to do it safely. Instead she'll have to distinguish herself to Asmodia by thinking useful thoughts. Then maybe eventually Asmodia won't hate her anymore she'll be out of the doghouse and at less risk for washing out entirely.

Willa Shilira is sitting in the back of the class and she's very unhappy about it, but you couldn't tell that by looking at her. She has less Chelish dignity and stonefaced composure in her than perhaps any of the other students, but that's still plenty to be unassuming in a crowd of almost two dozen. (She's mentally acute enough to count the twenty-three visible people in the room while barely thinking about it, but not perceptive enough to even notice Broom being the twenty-fourth.)

Willa came into the project bright eyed and excited about Law and learning and superpowers, desperate to be special. She was so desperate for it that when a chance to ask questions to The Chosen of Asmodeus came up, she tried to ask one mostly just to show off:

"Of course if the project is so important we should all be getting intelligence headbands, right, and I can put that impertinent demand in fancy probability language to prove I understood the homework too! I didn't stop to think that economic reasons were a trivial concern and that the real thing I should be worried about was fooling Keltham, even though you just gave a giant speech about how the important thing was fooling Keltham. So obviously I'm a complete idiot and you should never trust me with anything at all!"

That's not actually what she said, but it might as well have been. They didn't torture her for it at all which was super weird, but now alter Willa is 'studious, shy, and hesitant.' Forever. And she has to mentally run all her questions by Asmodia now, of course, to make sure they aren't suicidally stupid to say out loud. And she can guess that means if she ever actually has a good one it'll get given to someone else who isn't supposed to be 'shy and hesitant.'

She could choke herself with a rusty spoon.

She messed up and she knows it and she's mostly just sulking, angry at herself. There's a simmering annoyance with Asmodia for forcing alter Willa on her, and still a lingering resentment towards Sevar for capturing most of her soul-profits, but in the end the reason she can't be a model student actor agent is that she's too obsessed with being special and not obsessed enough with winning. It's a terrible failing in her and it's worse that she knows deep down that it's still true, it's not something she knows how to change.

She's not going to be able to distinguish herself to Keltham by asking clever questions, and honestly even if she was she maybe couldn't trust herself to do it safely. Instead she'll have to distinguish herself to Asmodia by thinking useful thoughts. Then maybe eventually Asmodia won't hate her anymore she'll be out of the doghouse and at less risk for washing out entirely.

Willa Shilira is sitting in the back of the class and she's very unhappy about it, but you couldn't tell that by looking at her. She has less Chelish dignity and stonefaced composure in her than perhaps any of the other students, but that's still plenty to be unassuming in a crowd of almost two dozen. (She's mentally acute enough to count the twenty-three visible people in the room while barely thinking about it, but not perceptive enough to even notice Broom being the twenty-fourth.)

Willa came into the project bright eyed and excited about Law and learning and superpowers, desperate to be special. She was so desperate for it that when a chance to ask questions came up, she tried to ask one mostly just to show off:

"Of course if the project is so important we should all be getting intelligence headbands, right, and I can put that impertinent demand in fancy probability language to prove I understood the homework too! I didn't stop to think that economic reasons were a trivial concern and that the real thing I should be worried about was fooling Keltham, even though you just gave a giant speech about how the important thing was fooling Keltham. So obviously I'm a complete idiot and you should never trust me with anything at all!"

That's not actually what she said, but it might as well have been. They didn't torture her for it at all which was super weird, but now alter Willa is 'studious, shy, and hesitant.' Forever. And she has to mentally run all her questions by Asmodia now, of course, to make sure they aren't suicidally stupid to say out loud. And she can guess that means if she ever actually has a good one it'll get given to someone else who isn't supposed to be 'shy and hesitant.'

She could choke herself with a rusty spoon.

She messed up and she knows it and she's mostly just sulking, angry at herself. There's a simmering annoyance with Asmodia for forcing alter Willa on her, and still a lingering resentment towards Sevar for capturing most of her soul-profits, but in the end the reason she can't be a model student actor agent is that she's too obsessed with being special and not obsessed enough with winning. It's a terrible failing in her and it's worse that she knows deep down that it's still true, it's not something she knows how to change.

She's not going to be able to distinguish herself to Keltham by asking clever questions, and honestly even if she was she maybe couldn't trust herself to do it safely. Instead she'll have to distinguish herself to Asmodia by thinking useful thoughts. Then maybe eventually Asmodia won't hate her anymore she'll be out of the doghouse and at less risk for washing out entirely.