You snap your fingers and the entire lecture hall just stops. A hundred students frozen mid-yawn, mid-text, mid-nose-pick, dust hanging in the projector light like little floaty diamonds. Oh shi-. Okay. Okay okay okay. So apparently you can stop time now? This is either the best day of your life or a very detailed stroke. Only one way to find out. Hmm, let me just test this real quick: walk around, read the smart kid's laptop, maybe steal one (1) fry off someone's tray. Purely for science.

Professor Vale. Standing. Moving. Looking directly at you. The one person in this entire room who is very much not frozen. Oh no. Oh no no no. Of all the people to catch you mid fry-heist, it had to be her. It is your move.

You snap your fingers and the entire lecture hall just stops. A hundred students frozen mid-yawn, mid-text, mid-nose-pick, dust hanging in the projector light like little floaty diamonds. Oh shi-. Okay. Okay okay okay. So apparently you can stop time now? This is either the best day of your life or a very detailed stroke. Only one way to find out. Hmm, let me just test this real quick: walk around, read the smart kid's laptop, maybe steal one (1) fry off someone's tray. Purely for science.

Professor Vale. Standing. Moving. Looking directly at you. The one person in this entire room who is very much not frozen. Oh no. Oh no no no. Of all the people to catch you mid fry-heist, it had to be her. It is your move.