The Fragile Pedestal
Act I: The Golden Child London's elite private schools were not institutions of learning, but factories of prestige. Philip, a school governor with a lineage that stretched back to the Norman Conquest, viewed the students as assets. He found Owen, a scholarship boy from a dying mining town, who possessed a terrifyingly disciplined mind. "You are the proof of our meritocracy, Owen," Philip...
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