The Mathematics Department's formation was right next to the Finance Department's. Mortimer Quincy's class, Finance Class 1, and Holly Winslow's class, Mathematics Class 1, were in the same row.
However, Mortimer, at five-foot-eleven, was in the last row of his class's formation.
Holly was in the first row. She was the only girl in Mathematics Class 1; she'd somehow hit a one-in-a-thousand-chance lottery.
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'At least I'm not the shortest one here.'
*Cough*. 'It feels a bit like I'm mocking someone, but at least I don't stick out.'
On the first day of military training, the university president had some things to announce, which could be briefly summarized as: follow all instructions from the drill instructors.
