Among the Barons

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"Hey, L! Mr. Hendricks wants to see you!” Such a summons would have terrified Luke Garner only a few months earlier. When he’d first come to Hendricks School for Boys, the thought of having to talk to any grown-up, let alone the headmaster, would have turned him into a stammering, quaking fool desperately longing for a place to hide.

But that was back in April, and this was August. A lot had happened between April and August.

Now Luke just waved off the rising tide of “ooh’s” from his friends in math class.

“What’d you do, L? Have you been sneaking out to the woods again?” his friend John taunted him.

“Settle down, class,” the teacher, Mr. Rees, said mildly. “You may be excused, Mr., uh, Mr….”

Luke didn’t wait for Mr. Rees to try to remember his name. Names were slippery things at Hendricks School anyway. Luke, like all his friends, was registered under a different name from what he had grown up with. So it was always hard to know what to call people.

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