Cfnm St Dunstans Autumn Term-l High Quality 📢

The boys retrieve their grey tracksuits from the hooks. They dress quickly, but not frantically—frantically would imply shame, and shame is not the objective. Humility is the objective. There is a difference.

"Again, Watkins. That was a half-rep. We do not permit half-measures in this building." Cfnm St Dunstans Autumn Term-l High Quality

Watkins, red-faced, complies. The prefect adjusts her cuff. The asymmetry is total: her wool and cotton, his bare skin; her authority, his exposure; her warmth, his shivering. The boys retrieve their grey tracksuits from the hooks

As the boys zip up their hoodies, one of the younger prefects—a new transfer, a Fifth Former named Cressida—finally breaks protocol. She smiles, just slightly, at Pierce. Not cruelly. Almost sympathetically. but not frantically—frantically would imply shame

Miss Thorne notices.