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Part Two: A flash of rainbow
This is part two of a four part story. If you have not already read the first part, check it out here. Otherwise, read on!
The first time I noticed Sòr Katerin, I was teaching a class I ought never to have been teaching.
And once noticed, never forgot. For Katerin was one of that select band of students destined to stick in my memory, for good or ill. Of course, I’d seen her around. She was ever rushing this way and that across the courtyard, to lessons or the library. A tousled streak of dark-haired, rainbow- attired counter-fashion! Or she would arrive last of all at the Dining Hall, taking her place under the glare of whoever was host that evening.
The stars had decreed that she would be forever late. And I, likewise one of nature’s less punctual creatures, could only approve.
Beyond this, I knew little about her.
As for that class, it was not a match made in heaven. Students assume their teachers to be uncritically enthusiastic, no matter the subject. Yet Portals, as topic, bored me to the core. All that clearing of the mind and making yourself a channel for your sister. All that purity!
Don’t get me wrong. I know why it is important: vital, even, to our continued prosperity. Just — please! — never, ever ask me to…
