The most decisive difference between Charlie and Barlin was that Charlie had no interest in the Flight of Transcendence at all.

It sounded just like skipping preschool to attend a strange academy—one that ignored the education system entirely, treating every class from grade school through college as one and the same.

So one could be the kindergarten bully one day, but then end up bullied by the most bullied kid in the academy the next.

What was there to obsess over such a life?

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