A girl in the library fainted next to me today. Apparently I have that sort of effect on people.

I'm not going to judge her too harshly. I've been known to keel over from time to time. Including once, memorably, straight over the desk of the woodwork teacher. Whump. I remember thinking, in the warm dark behind my eyelids, that I didn't have to get out of bed until Mum called me. I lazily opened my eyes, and saw leather shoes and socks pulled up to hairy knees.

Whoops! I stood up smartly, and got sent to the sick bay. It was a good lark, that. I got the rest of the week off school, and it was only Tuesday.