Nero's face, which had been carrying the easy calm of a man entertained by Dean's suffering, cooled by a degree.
"That," Dean said, very softly, "is vile."
"It was dealt with," Voss said at once. "The student was expelled. Charges followed. The university restructured half its internal security after that. Separate instructional corridors, supervised transitions for certain groups, scent-suppression emergency fields in designated halls, private reporting channels, faculty drills, and protected attendance provisions."
Dean looked ahead at the corridor branching in two directions, old stone reinforced with discreet modern systems so seamlessly embedded that the security looked like architecture unless one knew what to look for.
"Protected attendance provisions," he repeated. "That sounds bureaucratic enough to be dangerous."
"It mostly ruins scheduling," Voss admitted. "But it works."
That won a brief look of approval from Dean.
