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Belladonna's presence surprised her, causing Junko to jump a bit and whirl around to see her witch friend coming up to her. The shed? Oh, she had..yes. She had several times. A small glare was cast toward the shed at the mention of being chased out by Breck's hounds. "Several times. I always manage to get to the door but his hounds chase me out." She sighed, blinking and shaking her head. "I'm listening, don't worry. And um...yes...he just disappeared. Maybe it's different for staff?" Junko turned a worried glance toward the forest again, patting Belladonna's arm when the other ghoul clung to her.

Oh! There were other students gathering around now too? They must have been here for Breck's shed. Junko frowned and stepped close to Belladonna, looking unsure. "Should...should we tell someone?"

The area around Breck's shed seemed...crowded.

Barth had promised himself he wouldn't go down there again. The last two times had both ended in a trip to the Student Office. Even if the soil was loamy. And the grass was the best taken care of patch on campus. And in spite of the danger and traveling time still ranked number one on his list of perfect sleeping spots.

...One little trip couldn't hurt, right?

Looking at the group of students already here, though, he regretted mentioning the place on groanspring. He did like communal napping. Up to a point. He was now considering there might be a capacity limit.

Who he had especially not expected to see out here was the school secretary. Everyone seemed to be poking curiously around the forest edge. Which could only mean one thing. More Detention.

He edged closer too, to consult with his fellow avarice demons on what a bad idea that was. All he managed was a vague, "Wasn't that...er, shouldn't we...?"

Leave. Leave was the word he was looking for.

Aksaja hadn't been by the Shed in a while, mostly because despite his wishes, he'd had homework piled atop him that he had to get done. Now, though, he was done with that for the day, so he'd decided to come check it out.

Only to find a veritable group of students milling around. AGAIN. Wasn't this just like that time when they all got somehow warped to the human world? Waitaminute. There was that secretary guy over there, messing about even closer to the forest than most of the students were.

The lightning dragon frowned, drifting closer. Then as he saw Arel move under the trees, he decided rather impulsively to follow. The only problem was that damned mist, which made it a bit hard to see . . . just like last time. Ugh. Before he could really do anything else, though, he felt someone bump into him and turned to see Jericho. "Heya," he said to the other dragon, smirking faintly. "Y'think this is another set-up or what?" He kept his voice low, but the suspicion was clear.

Feeling that he had bumped into someone, Jericho quickly turned to see who he had just walked into, finding Aksaja there. For the moment, he returned the smirk, but it faded as he looked around to try and find Arel again.

"Beats me, but you saw him around here too right? I want to know what he's up to," he said with a frown. It was fairly obvious that the secretary had more of an idea of what had happened to them last time. He had said something about the school being targeted after all. Perhaps there was another incident recently, but either way, the dragon had an idea it had something to do with what happened.

"Seems like I'm not the only one too," he added, spotting a few of the avarice demons further back, along with what appeared to be Riley not too far off as well.

Christof had been on his way back from the graveyard with a fresh new assortment of.... parts... he had wanted to save for Amrita to look over when he noticed a growing crowd about the edge of the forest near the grounds keeper's shed. Was someone hurt? Was it another dreaded portal? No... no fog... He tugged his scarf tight around his mouth, hefting his filled and stinking sack and shovel and made his way closer to investigate.

He spotted Barth, almost immediately making his way over, but paused as he saw Mistress Riley walk STRAIGHT INTO THE TREES! Urgently, he stepped forward towards the tree line, Barth forgotten as he mentally called out Mistress! Mistress where are you going! We aren't supposed to go in the forest! You'll get in trouble!

Other students seemed to be curious about whatever it was she was following as well, dipping between the trees, but the Igor was left stranded at the edge of the allowable bounds looking anxious and terrified. He had to obey orders. They were ordered to stay. He had to protect his Mistress. She had gone into the woods.

His head ached. Maybe... maybe she would just come back when he called? If she could even 'hear' his thoughts from here. His brows furrowed as he tried even harder, MISTRESS!

Riley had gotten to the point where she not only had no idea where Arel was, but could no longer see the shed, either. She heard Christof's call, and took a few steps back, peering with a slitted gaze into the darkness of the forest before backing away. She exitted from between two trees, her arms folded as she noticed just how many students had gathered in the span of what, a minute?

They were all magnets for trouble. So was she. That was the beauty of this school, wasn't it?

I'm here. She responded to Christof, though her thoughts were public enough that anyone could hear them. I was following the secretary. He disappeared in there not a moment ago. Funny, that. Her voice was dripping with sarcasm - she found nothing funny about it.

Oh, yea that's right, they had been some kind of vehicle. "Yea, those things," he replied to Barth, nodding at the other. The human world had been interesting enough to him, but it had been a bit . . . unnerving when he couldn't leave. Shrugging at Jericho's question, he frowned, peering into the trees. "Dunno . . . Why would he be in there if it's supposed to be so dangerous?"