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The teacher got back to the desk running, sat down
and tried one last time. He brainstormed on all the
topics he had worked on with his students all
through the year and came to the conclusion that
there was no way all of this could help him do this
test.

Inevitably, the stopwatch rang and the stranger’s
voice was drowned out by the collapse. “Time’s up
teacher. Stand up!”

“NO!”

The teacher raised his eyes from the exam paper and
realized the stranger wasn’t there anymore; he had
vanished, as if by magic, as if he had been an
hallucination all along. Yes, exactly this, a pure
illusion living only through the teacher’s
imagination, just like the creatures could have
perfectly been the headmaster’s hallucinations. The
teacher stood up, rushed to the door but couldn’t
open it in time to escape and the whole place
collapsed.

*

In the corridor, his students had been waiting for a
while when the door finally opened. They were all
here, on this September back to school day, beautiful

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