“I never saw anything
like it. Takumi wore a starched white shirt with red tie with a black paisley
print; the Colonel wore his wrinkled pink button-down and flamingo tie. They walked
in step, heads up and shoulders back, like some kind of action-movie heroes. I
heard Alaska sigh. “The Colonel’s doing his Napoleon walk.”
“It’s all good,” the
Colonel told me. “Just don’t say anything.”
We walked in- two of us
wearing ties, and two of us wearing ratty T-shirts- and the Eagle banged an
honest-to-God gavel against the podium in front of him. The Jury sat in a line
behind a rectangular table. At the front of the room, by the blackboard, were
four chairs. We sat down, and the Colonel explained exactly what happened.” –pg.
72
This section is after the
gang got busted for smoking on school grounds by the Eagle. They are being
tried for their punishment by their fellow classmates on the Jury, but the
Eagle can overrule the Jury’s verdict (just like the American court system). Which
apparently the Eagle hardly ever does. The Jury is elected by the faculty, and
they usually due the cases where the other students are caught smoking or
staying out past curfew.
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