Sister Rail

Sister Rail replaces Sister Rule as Mistress Academia, when Rule departs Sweet Mercy on sabbatical. Both nuns controlled their class with a very firm hand, but Rule’s had at least been fair, welcoming questions and cleverness of any kind. While Rail most valued the ability to recite what the mistress said and considers questions a form of stupidity and tantamount to mutiny. Rail is short and painfully thin.

After Nona's scuffle with Joeli Namsis, Joeli raises the incident with Sister Rail while sporting a neck scarf covering her supposed injury. Rail’s family were a very minor branch of the Namsis tree. It's Sister Rail who brings Novice Nona up on charges of brutally attacking Joeli before Abbess Glass and the other nuns. The Abbess eventually exposes Joeli as having used Ulhen's Ointment to fake her injuries, and the charges are dismissed. However, Sister Rail still retains a loathing for Nona. She smiles with a twisted satisfaction when she finally gets her comeuppance before Inquisitor Pelter.