"Ouch!" And now Bay was getting hauled off too. Fun. THe media attention wasn't all for nothing; the press as there to take photos of the kids being removed, with one especially bright reporter barking questions at Emmett.

"Um, you know he's deaf, right?" she asked.

"But you aren't," the man returned, undaunted. "If you can hear, what were you doing in there?"

"Same thing as everyone else. Protesting the closing of the best school that I know about." (Sorry, Fandom.)

"Can I quote you on that?"

"Sure. Bay Kennish. Ow, my underarms."