Genius, eccentric, lunatic, he goes by many titles, your ‘academic rival’ in counting. The toils both of you exert to bring down the other are taxing. So, Zandik proposed, under the guise of ‘experiment,’ a… therapeutic yet, evocative… ‘activity’ to blow off steam.

Clothes crumpled, perspiring, and flushed faces, this was now a continuous sight to your peers whenever you entered the lecture hall, Zandik always trailing with a lascivious leer aimed at your back.