…He said now.Who said? I figured it out after re-reading it, but it might help to go ahead and identify who’s saying what when you have more than two people.
… he looked more than usually distracted this morning…This phrasing doesn’t really work for me.
Each T’Awn had…Alright, so now I know what they are, a little. Why are the wearing clothes? Are they lizards or reptilian or something totally different?
A couple of years ago that would have been an unthinkable arrangement, but then, a couple years ago…Here you kinda say the same thing twice and it might not be necessary. You may want to thing about breaking up this sentence as well; it just seems too long.
… and yet they were deafened.You might want to be careful of passive sentences.
Over all I liked it, but it did have a rather slow pace. It felt like there was a little too much separation between the reader and conflict. Things were happening but I wasn’t invested enough to care just yet. It seems you’ve put a lot of effort into your world building, and as a reader I’m interested, but it is starting to get confusing. Levels and the machinations in school and the purpose of the school, it’s just a little too much this early I think. But, you have a great start here and I’m really interested in seeing were it goes. Good job!
And you can send me the other half if you want.