Frank frowned but did not argue with Mandy, and instead reached for the jug of water, pouring himself a glass.

Mandy snorted. "Can't even afford to buy himself a drink, and trying to freeload off Soren. Despicable.”

Frank used the dim light and deafening beats to pretend not to hear Mandy, not even looking her way.

It took a while until Dragondawn finished, and everyone in the bar including Tilda applauded.

She turned toward Frank, her cheeks flushed as she smiled and asked, "What do you think? Don't you think they're just so cool?"

"I don't know much about music,” Frank admitted. "But I thought they were a little noisy.”

"Hah! You really are a bumpkin." Mandy promptly jumped in to mock him. "You can't even understand new age rock. Honestly, what are you doing here?"

At that point, Frank realized that Mandy was on Soren’s side.

clearly paid off too, as Soren smiled faintly and shrugged. "Don’t say that, Mandy. The arts are just too advanced for backwater folks—it's normal if they

was clearly referring to Frank, but Frank was not

students, and they could say whatever they wanted to as long as it

he saw that Frank was unfazed, realizing immediately that Frank was completely ignoring him

ant flailed around, insulted, or harassed an elephant, the elephant would not even bother

left Soren exponentially

follow Frank's gaze just then and realized Frank was staring at

the man—he was Willy Sorano,

invite The Spades to put on a live show for them?" He knew

coerced by the Soranos in every way, mere students like

when he remembered Lily's naive smile,

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