Overwhelmed by high school

The apartment Rabble was nothing set next to the high school. Between classes the halls flooded with students packed tighter than cattle, and the noise—it staggered Ryn. The scents of a thousand oily bodies choked her and she stowed herself in a narrow space at the base of a stairwell with hands clamped over ears.
The students filtered into classrooms and the bells rang again and all fell silent. Ryn crept through empty hallways full of long echoes. She liked the school much more without the people; it felt like a locker-lined cave.


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