Matthieu returns to the school

Amarie's voice still ringing faintly in his ears, Durant threw open the doors to the hall. Seeing that he was the first to arrive there, he began to pace slowly up and down the room, wondering what could be so urgent. As he waited for others to join him, he removed his coat, adjusting one of the many ornate chairs that lay in such regimented rows throughout the hall, so that he may sit down.

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