Magiclicas Nonsense

Cipher Life

I just realized the title sounds a lot like CyberLife but it's not a Detroit: Become Human reference I swear

We're severely lacking in what the Ciphers' school lives are like except for the Eversingers so ima go out on a limb and make up my own thing for them??

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Jax sat silently with the rest of his class before the bell rang. Most of the students had rushed in the last thirty seconds before the bell rang, using their time down to the last second to be able to socialize with their friends. As soon as the students walked through the door, they were supposed to be silent, sit down, pull out class materials, and act like statues and take notes the rest of class.

Jax hated this strange mentality his teacher had. She was some sort of crazy Cipher-obedience extremist and enforced this mentality with the threat of a ruler- although she had never used it that Jax had seen and he was fairly sure that was against school policy. The threat was enough to scare students into being silent and invisible to the teacher except when she called on a single student to answer a question and then turned back to the whiteboard. If someone had a question, it was never answered.

Jax had known that the Cipher curriculum in Everston was more extreme than what it had been at his and Melissa's old school, but not like this. At their old school everyone was taught the same stuff, except for the one or two classes that only Magiclicas took. Even as Magiclicas and Ciphers stayed in completely separate wings of the school, at least what they were learning wasn't so obviously separated. Maybe it would be less irritating if Melissa were here to support Jax, but the teal-eyed boy had barely said a few words to her in two weeks.

His first period teacher droned on about Cipher rights and how they were and always would be less than a Magiclica (which Jax found stupid.) A few students in the back were passing notes to each other, using the system everyone in the class knew except the teacher to communicate in their vigil. The pink-haired Cipher girl that Jax only knew for her tech smarts and rebellious attitude was on her phone next to him, tapping away at the screen with a fist on her cheek and looked about as bored at Jax was.

The bell rang. Thank the White Stone, Jax grabbed his bag and things that he had prepared ten minutes before and sped towards the door.

"Mister Kollmann! Where exactly do you think you're going?"  The teacher asked in a shrewd voice.

Jax slowly turned back to the class to see the teacher tapping her foot impatiently and the rest of the class staring at him while holding papers, many of them packets stapled together.

"Don't tell me you forgot to do your homework, Mister Kollmann, or I'll give you detention!" The teacher warned.

Jax groaned. He had done the assignment a week ago and forgotten it was due today. As his classmates filed out the door behind him he dug into his folder and pulled out the assignment, which had been on the differences between available Cipher occupations and Magiclica jobs (an assignment which Jax found very biased and detrimental to self-esteem, as basically the entire article was saying that Ciphers will always have the working class jobs while Magiclicas will always be above that level and will be the ones to be famous and powerful; as if they weren't already.)

"Sorry, I forgot it was due today. I had it done a couple days ago and-"

"Be glad I'm not punishing you for speeding out of here before you were dismissed. A Cipher should be listening for instructions by their superiors, not operating on their own agenda," the teacher scolded. Jax bowed his head while hiding his disgusted scowl.

I was going by the bell system! I'm OPERATING on the time schedule we're supposed to be going by. You should have collected homework sooner, lady. Jax seethed in his head, along with more than a few other rather unpleasant thoughts about this teacher and Everston's Cipher curriculum in general.