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Cady was late. It was Smelly's fault, really - she'd had to lock him up with the two manticats before dashing out of her dorm (which still remained largely unpacked). She'd left Captain Bread out, though. He sobbed quietly as she left. He was always sobbing quietly, and it had her a little concerned, but she was pretty sure bringing pets to class might not be a good idea. She wasn't sure if Sax Ed would be a good place for him anyway- saxophone music was really depressing.

She made her way into the classroom just behind another boil, and was slightly relieved when he asked what was going on. She maneuvered past him as he sat, glancing around as people whispered something about not hurting bugs. Weird. She made sure to watch her step, and sat down next to the oddly unoccupied seat that everyone seemed to be staring at. Weirder. Was there something wrong with the chair? it had a bit of bug guts smeared onto it. Mmm.

She was distracted from the tasty morsel though as she noticed her favorite patchwork boil quietly keeping to himself. Cady supposed this was not much of a feat when your mouth was sewn shut. What had Claire said his name was? Oh yeah...

Breaking the eerie silence, she hissed in a loud stage whisper, "HEY CHRISTOF! IT'S ONLY MY FIRST DAY AND LOOK WE ARE IN THE SAME CLASS, DO YOU LIKE SAXOPHONES TOO?" This would be SO exciting.

Arachne had just been about to lean other to Sepheran and ask him if he knew about the Prom theme when their teacher entered..Nurse Cricket, who she'd seen just the once way back in the first aid class. She jumped at the tone of voice, wondering what someone had done, her ears ringing from the sound the insects were making.

She hurriedly dropped Seph's hand and looked around her desk, and on her shoe bottoms to see if she'd squished one of the bugs but she hadn't, and looked up again, just in time to see Nurse Cricket move in front of a boil's desk, stop and eat him.

She ate him. Whole.
'Wha..' she felt like she was nailed to her chair. That didn't just happen did it? She looked over at Sepheran, her face pale and eyes wide.

'Don't touch the bugs.' she murmured, several times as she tried to process what she'd just seen. Was the boil alive? What kind of Sex Ed class was this??

For a long while, Cricket seemed almost content as she was, listening to the students chatter about what had just happened, and giving the young Horsewoman who had joined her for her class a careful nod. "It is very nice to see you in here." She spoke, almost...politely, even. That in and of itself was a feat, but it wasn't above the same level of respect she would have given to their Headmistress.

Cricket wasn't stupid. She knew when to not exceed her own bounds.

"For the manner of if he tasted good, the answer is a simple 'no', however. Students do not taste good, as much as that pains me to say. In fact, they are quite uncomfortable and are not meant to be digested, really." She leaned back in her seat with a slight sigh. "It also helps that I did not quite eat him. Tiny or not, his FEAR would cause strange things to happen in my own levels."

The ghost got up from her desk, pausing to give Riley a quite curious look for her answer to the question, though it didn't exactly seem to be praise or even like she cared if the Mindflayer approved of her or not. She walked in front of her desk, paused, and there was a moment where it looked like something flashed in the ghost's form, before the ectoplasmic body pulled itself apart and shoved Bul, who would be only slightly worse for wear, but glow at inappropriate and random moments for the next week, back out of it and onto the floor.

The insects all over had skittered away compensatingly, not a single one having been smashed or even brushed against. The floor creaked beneath the boy and it was a brief moment before the nurse reformed herself properly.

That hadn't stopped her from speaking to begin her course of discussion, however.

"The lesson that should have been learned was 'Do not ******** with things that you don't know about'."she said plainly. "I know some of you will not have any issue holding on to what you are going to learn today..." she explained carefully, her eyes pausing on Malodore, and then Riley, and then even going as far as to look over at the Siren who had just entered the room.

"Others of you have no idea what it is you have been...doing...." she paused, her eyes stopping on the occasional student who likely already knew who they were and what it was Cricket was disproving again, again proving that Cricket simply knew. Then again, she likely had some sort of communication function with every small creepy crawlie on campus.

It would have made enough sense.

"My attempts to teach that small FEARlings are loud, obnoxious, horrible creatures seemed to not touch on many of you last time. I am sure you all simply shoved the Mandragoras into the closet subspace and left it at that. Simple, plain, and I do not blame you. I was no good at this class when I was young because, as you could probably guess, I did not care.

I believe I left my pumpkin in the care of my partner and it was neglected inside of a freezer for over two Octobers. It was very unhappy when it did pop and it shrieked for a long time.

Simply confirming that FEARlings would be a loud nuisance of small horrible nasty creatures and that I would be better off eating any accidental young I had."

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.....

She had likely simply managed to convince the student body that she was a baby-eater. Then again, she hadn't even thought about devouring Bul.

The nurse picked up one of the pumpkins on her desk, obviously a remnant from a student who was not going to come and pick it up (Somewhere, a certain Pricolici sneezed, then seethed about it), turning her attention to Aisa and offering it out to the horsewoman.

"The balance of FEAR is delicate in any sort of intimate setting between a parent and a child, or even two lovers. This isn't to say it is...easy to destroy one another, but...."

She shrugged.

"Would you care to show what happens with FEAR imbalance? I will explain what I am referring to afterwards." she inquired to the young Death-heir. Cricket was fully capable of doing it herself, but she would have rather let her FEAR reassemble back into its own balance before ******** with it again.

Roch was fighting the insane urge to laugh at Danny's question. Was this related to sex ed? Hell if he knew! He had just watched a prospective buddy be EATEN by the most horrifying ghost he'd ever seen in his life (and he had seen some really scary ones--from a distance) then spat out and... glowing.

"Shut up and look like a good student!" Roch hissed at Danny, more because it gave himself something to focus on other than the ghost lady who would no doubt give him nightmares for the rest of his LIFE.

What had he learned? What had he learned? He'd learned that ghosts were even more scary than he damn well thought! And since this was a teacher, he couldn't even fight back.

His life sucked.

Damien was slowly beginning to feel the blood poor back into his legs as the instructor became more placid to them, still just as snarky, but at least not stark raving mad that made the hound want to curl up in a corner and let the other take over his territory.

But at least Bul was spared from being dinner from the teacher and her pets that were skittering all over the floor like a swarm, that managed to stay out of the glowing Bul's path. Thankful for the distraction, the hound crept into the room and leaped into a chair next to Roch, who was closest to the door and his sanctuary for now as he didn't feel exactly safe in the classroom.

"Bloody Jackin' pumpkin seeds, what kind of a class is this?" he whispered over to Roch while keeping his eyes trained on the teacher. He knew after such a grand display that she wold not take kindly to any of his shenanigans and he...

Frankly, he did want to get eaten and glow like a firefly.

The djinn didn't seem to register the whisp sinking down into the chair beside her, but it was merely a case of not wishing to tear her eyes from their teacher as she carried on speaking as if nothing was amiss, and then proceeded to .. regurgitate Bul onto the floor. The consuming hadn't been enough to make her cringe, but the sorry state of the half-beast upon reappearance was.

She had noted Jove's presence though, and this was proven by the foot she'd extended out to tuck around of of his chair legs, tugging him just a little closer to her.

West meanwhile didn't seem likely to get his arm back anytime soon.

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Their professor was serious business. An impressive ghost in her own right, but that little trick of extending her bottom jaw, and the flicking after image effect something completely foreign and 'other' and absolutely terrifying. It hadn't quite sunk in yet what exactly Bul being eaten meant, possibly because it didn't quite seem real. He couldn't be dead, there was just no way. So where was he?

Oh.. There he was. He cringed as his friend was.. was.. vomited back up onto the floor, glowing oddly and a bit worst for wear, but seemingly all in one piece. It was a relief seeing him, but it raised more questions, and Seiji's wariness of the teacher only grew.

What was the lesson the hungry ghost would take away from this class? nurse Cricket was hardcore, and do. not. touch. bugs.

As Bul returned to his chair, the jikininki glanced at him sidelong. "Ya man." He was still holding onto Junko rather tightly, but his pride insisted it was for her benefit and not his own.

Amphi let out a sigh of relief as the student reappeared with a nice little tinge of glow and only a little damage to him. Even as he sat, she cocked her head at the monster before looking back at the professor. So the lesson had been about dominance and not messing with the surly nurse ghost. She could handle that.

Amphi listened intently at the ghost, realizing that she was probably talking about the run of students interested in scarelings. While Amphi herself was never interested, she had heard of the students who were attempting it. Maybe? Then again being from the sea didn't help her with all the gossip that land walkers did.

Amphi's eyes widened. "So Land walkers do eat their young!" She clapped her hands, "I'll have to tell the sisters about this one, who knew."

Calder was late. Super late. He hadn't expected the place to be this packed, but it at least gave him some cover as he opened the door and slowly moved in, more hunched as he closed the door behind him with a controlled, as-quiet-as-he-could-make-it click. Turning, he crouch walked over to the back of the room and slipped into a vacant seat. SAFE!

Relieved, he looked around and saw a lot of terrified faces and then looked up to the teacher. "It's just a pumpkin." A cute wittle pumpkin!