And when they all finish in time, they can swap their essays back in the other direction. Two extra peers to review your work; Riley feels pretty confident about the value he's adding to this particular study group. Grammatical corrections, vocabulary substitutions, notes about flow, and commentary on the argument itself- he's got this.  He just needs to show up on time going forward.

"That's why you shouldn't go off the reservation- it's not worth doing something different for most of us. Safer to stay on the rails."

"No matter how cruel those rails are to the ones at the bottom," she mutters, hopefully too quietly for anyone to overhear.

Theun doesn't make out the words... but he can guess, since he's thinking something similar.

He just shrugs and does his own editing pass on the essays passed to him.