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Mat looked over when two students came in late, smiling slightly. It was a little bit funny ... watching how flustered they were ... and the reactions of everyone else. Turning his attention back toward Elias, Mat frowned when the two latecomers got chosen. He wasn't really sure if that was punishment or reward. Weird ...

Then he caught Grave's look though, and blinked. He looked down ... saw the inkpot and quill ... then grinned, nodding quickly. Even if they didn't get to do the spell in class, if Grave wrote everything down maybe they could try it on each other later or something.

Nadyrr looked up hearing the door it seemed that there was yet another late student. He froze a moment as he looked at the new arrival, the arrival was a male - an absolutely lovely male. Some of the others in the class were also lovely but he had time to get use to them the new arrival had caught him off guard. Part of him shrinked back and told him to keep quiet and pretend like he wasn't watching the boy another part of him kept his eyes roaming over.

A spell that is what Elias was going to teach them, he had to focus...hopefully with it being demonstrated that would help him remember. As he mulled over this a moment he caught a brief movement of Elias and his stomache fluttered. Digging his nails into the palm of his hand he made his panic drift down and then returned his gaze to the one at the door. His head spinning a little he gulped and before he knew what he was doing he made a small gesture to the boy at the door and patted an empty seat next to him.

He didn't want to draw too much attention to the late boy, the others seemed very flustered by not being there on time and some of the other students had looked angry. He figured if the new arrival got to the seat quickly enough and didn't make any big noises he should be fine. Nadyrr didn't look back to see if the boy had come to the offered chair instead he stared ahead at the professor and tried to control the queasiness inside.

Nadyrr sat for a time just looking at Elias, then with whatever amount of courage he had in him he took his quill and wrote quickly on a loose piece of parchment. Nadyrr then tilted the parchment enough so the newcomer could see in simple block letters it said, "He's going to show us a spell."

Nadyrr only kept the parchment up for a brief moment before laying back on his desk and going back to looking ahead and trying not to pass out. After he had assured himself he had better control over his actions he took a moment to take a look a the new boy out of the corner of his eye. He considered talking to the lavender haired boy after class but the very thought made his insides turn horribly cold. No he didn't think he would be up for talking to any of his classmates anytime soon.

Ubel sat and watched, but was quickly distracted by the entrace of another. His eyes widened slightly when he saw Thobius, lips parting and cheeks actually flushing just a bit when he realized that his brain was momentarily stunned by how attractive the other was. And he wasn't even Melancholy! Quickly, he looked back to the teacher and the two students who were being given the spell opprotunity, determined to remain focused on class and class alone.

Thobius entered, and Grave glanced up and sat motionless for a second, admiring the boy's lovely tresses, and rather feminine grace. As the boy made his way to Nadyrr's side, Grave could not help but muse a small mirth-filled smiled at the contrast of that pair. But! More important things lay at hand. Grave watched carefully as the two females stood together in the center of the room, with Professor Elias standing before them. Grave dipped his quill into the ink. Elias spoke up in a fluid voice,
"Now, Biquintile requires for you to draw a circle on the floor. So, take this stylus..." Elias handed Antigone and Belwen both what looked like a long metal cane with an upside-down pyramid cap on the end of it. "Now seperate the circle into 12 segments, marking the Zodiac. Place the two planets whose strength you want to call upon and set them apart by two and a half signs of the Zodiac. Select any two planets you choose. Depending one which planets you invoke, different information will be revealed."

As Elias gave the instructions, Grave began to draw his circle on the naked desktop with his quill, scratching the surface and sectioning off the twelve houses of the Zodiac. Now, which planets would Grave choose? He glanced at Ubel. Well, Pluto for Ubel... He glanced at Mathiaz. Mars, clearly, for Mathiaz. He scratched in the planetary symbols. There...Now what? Grave looked up to the Professor.

As soon as instructions were given, Ubel immediately began to draw in his book, eyes actually never leaving Elian - he had a talent for drawing with only occasionally glances to what his quill was doing. A moment later, he realized he was being looked at, blinking slowly and turning his head to look at Grave, before smiling warmly. Then his attention was right back on his drawing, as he wrote down all of the symbols for the planets for himself, annotating and taking random notes, to make sure he could remember everything.

Aysel glanced around, anxiously perching on the edge of her seat, and noted that just about everybody was drawing their own circle. If everybody was trying the spell, why shouldn't she? Opening her spellbook to the third page, she drew her own circle and sectioned it as Professor Elias had instructed, and then chose her two planets..Saturn and pluto, she decided with a small smile. As soon as she was done, she whipped her head back around, sending her curls bouncing a bit, and focused entirely on the Professor and the two girls standing with him.