Vox Mentis

The best case for you, oddly enough, is comparing yourself to Eliot or Jane. Their inability to check your behaviour - knowing your set of 220, predictable behaviour - would indicate you can surpass anyone at the academy. Which marks you as a threat, sure, but in theory Thoreau here can still control you, channel your latent "220-ness" in a direction that serves his motives while still leaving you satisfied with life.

Thoreau'd know better than anyone - even you probably - as your studies continue and you demonstrate your abilities, where "satisfaction" lies for you and whether that's above Eliot, or even at the point you'd threaten Thoreau (haha, good one. This guy scares the shit out of you.)

I'm not sure you actually know what you want to do with all this power you're acquiring, but it seems clear enough at least that you want to surpass Jane and Eliot; you're not going to be satisfied raising young wizards. Let's be honest, you might not even be satisfied being Thoreau's second-in-command, if that's what you're capable of. Whether Thoreau can control your desire to best even Thoreau, that's something our shark-eyed friend here knows.

The organisation can't just be composed of 13's and 42's, or other sets with an inclination to be content to work within a given system. Sure, your new school might teach you that public education is just a factory line for people, but that doesn't stop the academy being a similar bunch of arbitrary social constructs. Just because their final product is a superior version, doesn't mean that your not fitting its mould makes you a reject.