being told the calss would end once they felt they had learned something translated to Crimson as 'Once you got enough unlocked'. Crimson was determined to do that much.
The new boxes ere easier to be sure, but- just a hair short of the needed amount had the bllod mage at it still, determined to see it to the bitter end.
While Crimson finished up, someone very different, the demon nightmare Leva was trying her claws at a red box. If she got it, fair enough, if not? She was done, and would take what she'd learned at apply it to breaking into her own dorm.
Noticing that Arrakis was having trouble again made Ignatius feel a little better. He was a hob, not a knob or a snot. Wasn't he supposed to be better at this now?
After listening to the professor's comments--basically telling them they were free to keep whatever they found and that there was more stuff in the yellow boxes, not that he could even open these ones--he decided to go back to work. Maybe he would get something else now?
It was almost as if the not-actually-a-pep-talk from the professor suddenly made him better, somehow, and the box clicked open. Eureka! Ignatius tossed whatever he got to the side and went for another box...
Too late Tavi. Helki had already witnessed everything that went on between him and Shiki. Another kitsune boil whom he thought was much cuter than him and a better match for Tavi based on the simple fact that the both of them were kits and probably had a lot more things in common, both personality and background wise. It was as if his worst nightmare had become a reality.
Hiding himself behind a bush, he pretended to fiddle with one of the locked boxes though it was obvious with how badly his hand was shaking that he was focused on something else other than that and thus wasn't going to be successful at all. Nonetheless, he kept at it and waited until Tavi decided that he had enough of the class and slipped away before giving up on what he was doing to stand and aim a kick at the box.
It hurt his foot of course.
But it strangely didn't hurt as much as the ache that had begun from within his chest.
Arrakis had, indeed, been having quite a bit of trouble. Sure, he was pretty new in general. At everything. Pretty much everywhere. He was watching the others that had already gotten quite a bit of treasure and wondered if there was something he was missing. Was there a trick to it that he just wasn't figuring out? He tried to steal a glance at the other students without being horrifically obvious, but didn't see anything that actually yielded any information.
Well, okay, so it did seem to be mostly luck... How lucky was he feeling? All things considered, it could be worse; he was at least over halfway to his goal, even if not by much... Maybe he would get a couple more boxes and not have to be out past dinner? Shaking his head with a quiet chuckle to himself, Arrakis went hunting for yet another box to open. Sure, he didn't have to, as the teacher had said "once you feel you're done", basically, but... he didn't feel like he was done, if he had to be honest.
He'd been assigned a task and, by Jack, he was going to complete it!
Oh!
Hey!
Another box!
With a grin, Arrakis tried his hand at unlocking it, and it came apart incredibly quickly. In fact, quickly enough that, at first, he didn't quite believe it and thought it to be a trick. Surely it would bite him when he went to open it? Or there would be a second, smaller, also locked box on the inside with the actual lock he had to open?
...No, a jeweled frog told him that he had just managed to actually get the box open. The frog was fairly heavy, though, and so Arrakis took his treasure over to the scale to have it weighed.
It was exactly what he needed! The frog put him right exactly at the amount they'd been told to collect. Ah, that was lucky! He turned, excited, looking for Ignatius.
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It's okay so am I. I blame calculus and uni applications
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