invents a new NPC we can reference later.

[ That's... that's hard to understand, but he nods, trying to picture Sawyer training much of anyone. If he had the potential, would he be trained? He doesn't know, but he doubts it. But as she explains it, he dos get a picture for one of the more popular girls at their school, Laureen. She seemed to have become more and more impossibly beautiful each year, and every time he had seen her parents or packmates around during social functions at the school, they did always seem to be encouraging her to talk with new people, and he knows for sure the rumors that she's managed to manipulate more than one teacher to pass her through without all the work done.

So maybe it was something like that.

His Ma, though... ]

But why are you upset, ma'am? [ Oops- ] That you can't help him?