I thundered over her, though I quickly lowered my volume in case any sound carried beyond the confines of my room. "You, Ms. Stern, have abused my trust countless times, and done unspeakable things to your classmates. You've bullied people, deceived people... Taylor, you've enslaved people! Do you even understand how wrong that is?"

"Don't look to me like the skinny bitch got complaints."

Before Tabitha could get into it again, I snapped right back at her. "You removed their capacity to complain! I don't pretend to grasp the precise ethics of all this, but... Oh sure, give me that look, because I'm the jerk who's reaping all the rewards."...