A Priest in Gotham: Starting Out by Taking In a Little Boy
Chapter 287

Superman gone dark

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"What's wrong with her?" Cassandra asked curiously.

"Jeanne d'Arc caught her last night," Kara said.

"Oh..." Cassandra raised her eyebrows. "That's rough."

"Phew..." Jason looked at Astra. "Good thing she didn't succeed in changing it..."

"Morning." Roland walked into the classroom in his vestments. "Why do you all look like you didn't sleep well?"

"I was sleepwalking," Cassandra said.

"I stayed up late," Astra said.

"Roy snored all night," Jason said.

"Huh?" Roy looked at Jason. "Since when have I done that?"

"All right, the exam is about to start. Take anything unrelated to the exam outside first," Roland said.

"Sure thing!" Kara picked Astra up, ready to throw her out.

Batman's mouth twitched. "So she's unrelated to the exam?"

"Put me down!" Astra twisted Kara's hand with Telekinesis, but it had no effect whatsoever. "I should've asked Damian for a piece of kryptonite."

"Stop fooling around." Roland tapped Kara on the head. "Focus on your exam. This one covers general history and basic legal knowledge."

"Oh..." Kara nodded. "You're not going to spring another Kryptonian test on me, are you?"

When she saw the first question on her paper, she knew she'd been too optimistic.

(1) Whose rule did Erok-El, the "Star Emperor," overthrow before establishing the first city on Krypton?

(2) In which book did the classical author Bur-El write, "Right and wrong are natural properties, like weight and lightness—morality is not the enemy of reason, but its crown"?

(3) In which era did headbands become the symbol of the Kryptonian Freemen?

(4) Who led the clones during Krypton's Clone Rebellion?

"Isn't this going a little too far?" Kara stared at her paper, her scalp tingling.

"These questions aren't really outside the syllabus, are they?" Roland spread his hands. "This is all common knowledge."

"Sure, it's common knowledge,

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