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Amelia, who had gone back to her room to feed her cicus cat between classes, was running a bit late. She rushed down the hallway, scanning the doors for the name of the professor who would be teaching her next class.

Finally, she saw it: "Astronomy. Professor Elias" Peeking through the small window at the top of the door, she saw the room was semi-dark and it looked as if class had already started. She opened the door as quietly as she could and slipped inside, embarassed that she was late. One should never be late, she thought as she took a seat on the nearest stool and pulled her notebook, quill and ink from her bag.

She'd missed part of the lecture, but she thought she could probably get notes from someone else in class. She'd noticed that most of her classmates were Melancholy academics--and she knew they were big on note-taking.

Now paying rapt attention to the professor, Amelia began to take notes, occasionally glancing at the stars on the ceiling. It was quite the setup, she thought, amazed by the telescope and all of the computer equipment. But it did bring the stars much closer to them.

Drokk frantically was trying to keep up with his writing. He'd but forgotten about trying to learn and only copy the professors words down to paper. Maybe he could read it when he got home or something. Drokk was continuing to see a pattern in these classes, and also sae a big red stamp with "failure" wrtten on it. He just couldn't understand things.

Drokk took a look around the class room and noticed a lot of people writing, but they seem to have a clue as to what was going on. Drokk just sighed and started writing again.

Grave eyed the screen ahead of him and saw a blotchy model of the Milky Way displayed on the screen. Dotted across it were the stars and planets, each with a thin red ring around them. Grave swivelled the optiball towards the red lines and saw that they drew up clear images of the star or planet circled and gave detailed information about the revolution rate of the body and the path on which it crossed in the earth sky. Grave was startled from this fascinating display of extensive information when the professor spoke again.
"Since most Empyreans develope an obsession with fighting against the Outsiders, today we're going to learn about a single planet. The Red Planet - Mars. As you may learn in Raelyn's art class, different colours have different affects on the consciousness. Red, in this case breeds passion, anger, impatience and rash thinking. The Red Planet is so coloured from an excess of iron in its environment. Iron, as you may learn in Abrid's class is a powerful tool for creating castor shells, and has a distinct affect on Outsider blood, as their blood cells require it to carry oxygen which feeds their muscles, brain and tissues. Mars - the Roman name for the Greek God of War, was considered chaotic, brash and violent - kept in check only by Venus, Goddess of love and passion. So, if you combine these qualities, you will begin to have an idea about what this planet can augment and with what sciences and magics it can be used."
Grave's quill was flying across the page of his notebook, recording facts and factoids, making a small spiderweb of interrelating information. When Elias paused for the smallest of moments, Grave glanced up and had to stop himself from staring admirably at the teacher. Elias' clear dark blue eyes were sweeping over the room, the smallest of smiles on his lips. With a twinkle in the professor's wise eyes that made him seem a great deal younger, he asked softly. "Would you like to learn a spell?"
Grave's spine went very straight and his left hand shook a little. Magic! This was what Grave had been waiting for....

Having been quickly writing down every word that the professor said, Ubel's quill only paused when he heard the magic word. A spell. It would be his first. Slowly, he looked up, eyes wide and hopeful, a tiny sound coming from him. "A spell," he breathed, dragging out the notebook he used for his spellbook, opening it to the second page quickly and just waiting with great anticipation.

((Ahaha. I got so far behind!! *scoots in*))

Mat had sort of lost track of what was going on with the Uranus demonstration, having just barely managed not to let go of Grave's hand as he was swept up in the feelings Elias and the planet were calling up in him.

By the time they receded, just about everything between that and when everyone started moving was ... just gone. He blinked, looking around, and then quickly went to sit on the other side of Grave, pulling out a notebook even though he probably wouldn't write much.

And he didn't, just scribbling down certain words - whatever ones sounded the most important, mostly. Big Sky ... Milky Way ... Constellations ... Circle Magic ... He didn't even bother trying to write down all of the attributes of various planets and so and so forth. Elias was going too fast and he could probably get it from Grave or look it up or something later anyway.

A spell though ... ooooh yea. He wanted to learn a spell. He sat up as well, grinning and nodding his head slightly.

Drokk shook his head, okay this was it. Why did these classes want to curse him possibilities of burning the school down. Drokk remembered the last class well, and okay, IF he could get the spell to work, it might be okay. But for him, things he couldn't understand, he didn't like, not afraid of, just disliked.

Drokk decided to be abrupt, upfront and honest to the professor. Heck, he may even send him outside to play sports instead, that would be something more fun to do.

" Hey sir? I don't really want to learn a spell. Can I go train outside instead?"

Mat tilted his head to one side, thinking for a moment. "It doesn't really sound dangerous," he muttered to Grave, glancing over at him. "I mean it just sounds like we're kind of gonna .... scan him? And be able to see stuff like uhm. Health or strength maybe?"

Personally, he thought this was gonna be great. It could be a useful spell for, say, the Arena ... or something.