So far Alina was doing fairly OK in her classes. Not needing too much extra help, it was certainly great to have an older student willing to tutor her.

But as of this evening, she was having a hard time. Miss Fairchild was too busy to help, and the subject was fairly hard for this evenings homework. Looking at Miss Fudge, she poked her on the arm softly. "Do you understand this?" Hopefully it wasn't just her having a hard time. That would be bad.