The school day took too long. It's normal for students to hate school, Titus reminded himself. Now he understood why.

Miss Bisher tried to give him a week of detention for his classroom stunt. Titus only managed to escape the punishment by showing the nurse his shin where the crazy girl had kicked him, thus she had confirmed he had been at the clinic the entire time. Fortunately, the girl had left by the time he had limped down there. The nurse, a kind, but somewhat foolhardy woman, cooed over him before giving him a pass to excuse his absence.

The idea of being confined to a detention room made Titus’s blood run cold. Shade thought it sounded like a blast, and reminded him of the time he had attacked one of the guards back in Arkham General Hospital's mental ward. They had b...

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