[he doesn't leave without a sense of victory in his smile, be it because John's staying behind for Petre's dark eye, or because he actually got that laugh out of him. His eyes don't actually leave him until he's close to the door, almost looking straight through the back of the teacher's head. A mark of his own for John to remember him by.
Right. Time to think about somebody else for the rest of the evening, then.]
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Right. Time to think about somebody else for the rest of the evening, then.]