Violet 

 “I believe those were her exact words. So that’s what you should do. You should expel her and blacklist her from every college in this country.”

The professors stared at me, then at each other, the room tense. No one spoke for a moment, as if they were all waiting for someone else to say something. I could almost hear the gears in their heads grinding as they tried to decide which version of reality made sense. They couldn’t even believe someone could do something like that.

Across the table, Nora flinched at my words, her body stiffening. She snapped her head up to look at me, her eyes...