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Name: Jaxon
Stage: Freshling

Entry: A city, huh? Shellmount was an interesting city, if Jaxon remember correctly.

"Shellmount." Jaxon hissed unintentionally. "It's an imp city that is well known for its shellfish I think. Mom doesn't make shellfish very often, but I love seafood. I wonder if I can manipulate Roxy in to cooking more shrimp for us sometime. Roxy's never really around tho. Maybe not ... " Jaxon slumped a little at the thought. If he couldn't get Roxy to make him something good tasting for once, maybe he could abuse Percy's apparent connections to get himself a good meal.

Name: Castiel
Stage: Freshling

Entry: Castiel shifted nervously, looking a little bit shy. He didn't want to say why he wanted to visit Cassiel's watch. It seemed so incredibly silly. His mother was named Cassie, and himself Castiel. It made him feel like the city was named after his family line, even though there was no way to know that, and something the boy never should assume. It was neat to think about, though. Thinking that he might have had some sort of great ancestry that had a city named after them excited the small boy, but he knew better.

Instead of giving his answer outloud, the boy wrote it down on a piece of paper to submit to the teacher at the end of class.

Username: Micillia

Nightmare: Frit -Freshling
Response: Frit looked at the map, excited. This was exploring! If even only on a map... But still, look at how much world and space and things there were. She marveled at all the little cities she could go to should she desire, and grinned. She found one city far far away. Mudsdale. Yeah, she wanted to go there. Frit stood at the head of the classroom, and declared; "Mudsdale, exactly 428 miles away, and im going to go there!" Nodding to herself she said the logical reason for her trip. "I mean, its gotta be muddy right? I LOVE mud!"


Nightmare: Muridae -Senior
Response: Muridae chewed on the end of her pencil. Imps seemed like friendly people. They were always so tight knit. That sounded like a nice place, Muridae thought to herself. "While elected mayors primarily govern over Imp affairs, the leaders of cartel families, known as bosses, by far wield the most power, and many have been known to unseat mayors who have been foolish enough to get in their way." Muridae looked a little shocked. Bosses?! That sounded like some mob boss operation kind of thing. Well, if her kind did it that way, maybe it was a good way. Muridae wrote it down in her secret book as well, she wanted to go experience this...


Nightmare: Eudica -Junior
Response: Eudica perked up a bit. She was a Bathoment, but she really didn't know much about how they governed themselves. Well if they were like her, how could they not be a calm, dedicated society, there for their people. Eudica started writing. "At the top of Baphomet society are the Rexes, which govern over all the Baphomet in their lands. There are three separate factions, Moonspear, Alcyone and Bramblewood, each with their own respective Rexes. Beneath the Rexes are Elders, which govern locally. Since the 50 Year War, the Three Rexes have retained some power, but defer to the Great Council when necessary. As Alcyone has been destroyed in the 50 year war, however, there has been some unrest as of late." She grinned, that didn't sound like a bad place to live... Maybe she would move once she graduated...


Nightmare: Clair -Junior
Response: Clair was a pretty open person, she was curious about how the most plentiful race governed. The Daemons. There were more demon cities than fae and dryad put together, they must be doing something right! "Historically, Demons have been lead by a monarchy, the rulers of which referred to as Sovereigns. The spouses of such Sovereigns are called the Lady/Lord/Liege Sovereign, and the family of the Sovereign is called The Sovereign Family. Children of the Sovereign are referred to as Prince/Princess/Princen depending on gender. Sovereigns delegate local power to sworn Lords/Ladies/Lieges who rule over specific geographical areas."


Nightmare: Plein -Freshling
Response: Plein looked at the map and felt a bit overwhelmed. There was just so, so MUCH. He looked around, and his eyes landed on Asphodel. The name sounded nice to the boy, and he continued. "Located within Asphodel Fields. Capital city of the Demons." Plein looked at the dot again, how could a dot house so many people? But, daemons, wasn't there a capital for quiet people who just wanted to write books? "Moonspear - Seat of the Moonspear Rexhaven, located in the southwest." Plein finally said, choosing a city that would sound good in any story. "When i write that i live there... well, itll sound like a fairyland. Moonspear."

As per usual, Ebi was more than excited for class, happy to have a means of a social outlet. Not only that, but their topic was so fun! Talking about different cities? there were so many that had really cool aspects to them! So many could serve for great romantic settings~ With a wistful sigh, he pulled out his textbook, and flicked through the pages slowly. The pictures were so nice to look at.... ooooh and the food pictures had him lingering even longer!

But he ended up stopping at one page that had Quirth. It seemed to be the place for fishing. He loved fish! "Oh Quirth looks nice! I'd love to see what kind of fish they have, and what foods they make with them!" seafood, yummm!

Like the good little boy he was, Anubis was paying full attention to his class. He sat nice and still, though would glance with a bit of annoyance at the other kids nearby who were goofing off... Some weren't taking the lesson seriously! Huffing softly to himself, he shook his head and cracked open his book as was instructed, carefully spending time on each city that was listed. So many of them sounded interesting.... Oh but one caught the hybrids eye. Zayen... It had manufacturing.. lots of it, too! That was the places specialty... That... must mean clothes were made there too! fashion!

Clearing his throat, he waited his turn patiently, before announcing his decision, "I'm interested in Zayen. They do manufacturing there, which probably means really cool clothes are made there as well."

"I chothe the Dryadth," Xyla said. "I'm part Dryad, tho I thought that would be appropriate. Um, Dryadth are a reprethentative democrathy, with each level of government electing the nektht level up. People vote for community reprethentativeth who vote for regional counthilorth who vote for a regional reprethentative to therve on the Dryad counthil, which maketh dethithons for the Dryadth ath a whole. The twitht cometh that the only people who can vote are people who have lived in the thame plathe for theveral yearth--Dryadth think they're more mature than normal people or thomething. It'th thort of the running theme throughout everything Dryad, tho yeah. Young people can't vote, and nor can people who've moved rethently. I don't like thith thythtem," she added conscientiously.

"I chose Nixie," Lillian said softly, "because I am a Nixie and because I was imbued and awoken in Nixie territory. Nixie usually live in small floating towns that act as satellite communities to a major city, or 'colony.' Members of the city elect an Elder who represents them on the Elder council. When a town gets large enough and independent enough, it can petition to be separated from its city to become one in its own right. They sink underwater and get to elect an Elder of their own." She fiddled with her pencil. "That's why so many Nixie cities have a strong community spirit--if they didn't, they wouldn't have become a city of their own. Or...something like that." It had been a very long time since Lillian had last visited the Nixie homeland.

cardiff

Cardiff spent a decent amount of time poring over the atlas before he chose a city, and another respectable stretch thinking about what he wanted to say before opening his mouth. It wasn't that he was afraid of being wrong, he simply liked things to be just so when other people were there to see.

"Khiron is a city south of the Academy that lots of Nightmares and Daydreams pass through to get to the ruins of Summerforge. Both of them are, or were, demon cities, and I'm part demon so I think it's good to know stuff about them."

Grandda York would be proud that he was bringing up his demon-ness in school. And maybe his other parent would too, the one Dad didn't like to mention. He was a demon too, and someday Cardiff planned to meet him.