Cassel College, Valhalla.
Outside the entrance, in Odin Square, the head of Odin's statue lay in a deep crater on the ground as if cleanly sliced off by a blade. The rooster sculpture had landed inside the "Foundation Well," its rear wedged against the stone rim like it was laying an egg. The rubble of broken walls had not yet been cleared away, yet the hearing was scheduled to proceed right on time.
An unprecedented event in the history of Cassel College was about to take place here today: the principal was facing impeachment. This was the first time in a century, and over the past hundred years, Cassel College had only ever known a single principal—Hilbert Jean Anjou, a proud, solitary old man well past a hundred.
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