"Believe me, I've been mostly sticking to games when there's no coin involved, or the bets are almost laughably low." Waver didn't really have a set time that he was around for games anyway. "What I'm used to can be either an independent or group pursuit, but I've mostly done the former."

Waver watches as the binding agent is added, then places the gathered fuses down on the table. "Some of them really make it hard. If it isn't the student I just mentioned, it's family rivalries coming into the classroom, or some other pile of nonsense." But they all did well, he supposed. Every student in Waver's classroom had gone on to high ranks and high regard, which all reflected back on him.

Not that he was always happy about it, but no matter.