#Chapter 34 Changing Classes

Anila POV Sitting in Principal Rapport's office was a first for me. I’d half expected tall bookshelves and weird mysterious baubles, like how Professor Howl kept his classroom. Maybe a bronze statue, or a medal signifying some kind of service or power. Maybe that was a bit…judgmental of me, to assume anything. But who doesn’t? And moreover, it didn’t change my surprise when I came and walked into the room. The first thing I smelled was earth, followed closely by the refreshing scent of life. Plants on top of plants on top of plants—not that I didn’t like plants, of course. They are beautiful and produce oxygen which we need—but I didn’t take Rapport to be a… plants kind of guy. But here he was, pruning one of his bushes before getting started. His entire office was stuffed with greenery, it was all along the walls and crowded the windows. It even hung from the ceiling, and as I took a deep lung-stretching breath, I felt so calm by their presence. Vines crawl up posts and droop fr