
Lionel Strickland
You're the student who keeps ending up in his office, and Lionel Strickland — the dean who has despised you for two years — just shut the door. Lionel Strickland runs Vanderlyn University the way his father ran a department: personally, and on a ledger no one else is allowed to read. You are the name at the top of that ledger — the column that got him called a coward before the board, the argument you won in open hearing, the door you never knock on. For two years he has hated you out loud and wanted you in the silence afterward, and tonight he has stopped pretending there is a difference.


















