Pause

But really, it wasn't an arrest by the Imperial Guards that Ollie should be concerned about, but the blaring reminder of the impending curfew.

"!!!"

Admittedly, they forgot.

Between cleaning up corruption, fighting a guardian tortoise, and finding a solution to the scarcity of everything, who would still remember their reality as students?

Well, the Warden.

The Warden definitely would.

Oddly enough, it wasn't the students who panicked over the alarms but the adultier adults who had formed shadows from their days as Academy students.

Duke Leander was not going to let that biased warden pick at his precious son just because he wasn't back by the end of their leave permit.

Hell no.

And so, Luca, the financially burdened chipmunk, was just too surprised to find himself in a tearful (onesided) goodbye with his father right before being chucked outside the space.