With all due respect, it sounds like exactly the sort of necessity I have every intention of rendering obsolete back in my world. And here, the same.

[ He is ruffled, but in an understated sort of fashion. Her tone makes clear what her thoughts make explicit; powered individuals are problems. They are, for him, his students, his friends, and once in a blue moon, his lovers.

She has her marching orders; he has his school.

Had his school.

Speaking of which-- ]

I can't help but notice you termed your objectives in the past tense, though.