Chapter 3 - ‘Dimming’ Dead eyes, are you just like me? Cause her eyes were as vacant as the seas – Smashing Pumpkins, By Starlight Saj and El were nigh on inseparable after that day in the nurses office, and less than a year later their friendship was concrete. Where there was one, you’d find the second. Some of the crueller kids at the school, spearheaded by Thomas Prince, called them the fag and shadow whenever they were seen, but the surprising thing was that weren’t seen often. In fact, if it weren’t for Thomas Prince and his sustained campaign of hatred against the boys, the two would have been left to their own devices and forgotten. Prince was infuriated that he had had to keep refocusing his group of cronies on the boys. Things had marginally improved for Thomas Prince, in that he was no longer shunned by all at the school. After his return to the school, originally ostracised from his peer group because of his vile temper and his perceived racist leanings, h...