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Sin cringed a bit and sat up straighter as the professor slammed her book and then dropped it. Ugh she was like the human world, fast, loud, and scary, not that Sin would tell her that. She had to keep from grinning at Aksaja's obvious statement and then bit her lip and cleared her throat.

"It's off limits to anyone without a passport." Sin stated, she wasn't about to mention that she had been there recently...sans passport. That whole fiasco was something she wanted to put behind her. She lightly touched the pendant under her dress and then moved her hand back onto her pen.

Gabrian arched a brow as he watched LW struggle to write her name on the board. Alas, he hesitated a moment too long, and before he could do anything to rectify the situation, Ren arrived and hoisted the she-wolf in the air, partially covering her lithe form with his wings, "Well, that's certainly a handy use of wings," he thought out loud, the observation meant to be mostly rhetorical, but loud enough for their quartet to hear. As the turned to head for their seat,s he smirked down at the she-wolf, "Oh, I'm more than happy to be here - I'm perfectly at home," a drop of water landed on his head and the nix took a moment to look up at the ceiling through hooded eyes, "Well. If water comes crashing down, I'll make sure none of you drown. In return, I expect a plate full of cookies, and perhaps some adoration too."

He was mostly joking. Mostly. But at least the offer was there; in a way it was his attempt to make his friends feel better in what was, no doubt, a disconcerting classroom. He doubted any of them knew how to swim very well, "Do any of you even know how to swim?" this was asked to the three monsters currently walking with him, and more out of curiosity than anything else.

His gaze landed on Ren as he spoke, and he offered the other boil a smirk, "I wouldn't call it 'waking you up', Ren," he drawled, "I think it was more along the lines of failing to do so. I'm sorry I couldn't get you on your feet, but I figured Alessa would do that herself if I couldn't manage with my try," he motioned at the Nagual with a tilt of his head, "She's much more punctual than you, that's for sure. Maybe you guys shouldn't stay up to the wee hours playing scario kart. Or if you do, maybe you should call me. But then, you probably didn't because you knew I'd have won if I'd have been there," he wasn't really talking seriously; he didn't excel at that particular game. He did a much better job as a scaraoke revolution and DDR.

He then made motion towards their seats and once he was seated, took a chance to glance around the room. Riley's speech-thought interrupted his own though, and he blinked for a moment before seeking her out across the room. He offered the demon(ess?) a smirk before deciding to try sending thoughts back at her; after all, it seemed much more practical than shouting across the room, <>. He also took the time to nod a salute in Sin's way when she acknowledged him.

Any further inspection of his classmates was cut short when their professor slammed her book shut and closed the door on some poor student's nose. Well, apparently, it was time to put their brains into action. He listened to a couple of his classmates speak up and then offered his own thoughts, "It is the place that essentially fuels the FEAR that creates our world, and we must go there to generate it," he wasn't sure on the details of how it worked, but he knew that if humans held no fear... well then, that would be very, very bad, "It is also a rather dangerous place for us," he drawled out, this from experience, and he couldn't help but shudder when he recalled the speeding, metal boxes.

Ziyah hadn't noticed her surroundings much as she had gone to sit - it was only when the plague doctor poked her that she realized that she had, in fact, sat right in front of Malodore.

"Hey-" She started, but then she was interrupted by the book slamming. That certainly managed to get the wisp's ever-fleeting attention, if nothing else !

The glowing girl, however, said nothing. In truth, she knew nothing about the human world - well, nothing beside the fact that it was where she had lived before she had died. But that wasn't really important, right ?

She took her supplies out of her bag as quietly as possible, and got ready to take note. She figured she might very well need them - if she didn't space out mid-lecture and forget to take them, that is..

For the most part Sammy had relaxed in the back watching as students filed into the class. It was going to be a decent sized one, they would have room for more if not for all the boats and ducks laying around the room. When Riley spoke she only offered a simple wave as she continued to admire the room; she was rather curious about the duck pile in the corner really.

She was about to greet Malodore and some of the others when the door suddenly slammed shut. Suddenly she was lest slacker and more attentive sitting upright and paying a lot more attention.

Leaning forward slightly she leaned onto her arms on the table thinking for a moment. "They live... in a very noisy place, moving metal boxes that speed along narrow marked paths. They look well, like myself with less rot, what most of us look like except less exciting." She paused trying to remember a few other details of the trip. "They like this person called Justin Beaver it seems too..."

The race of humans, as a whole... grew up like minipets? Well, that was a completely bizarre statement. Malodore dutifully wrote it down in its notes, along with the bit about the Human World being mostly water.

But why would they rather be squashy fleshy things than monster fish? That seemed very illogical, especially on a watery world. It raised its hand. "Did just one man crawl out of the ocean, or was it a lot of them all at once? If it was a lot of them, why did they all decide to go at the same time? Did they have a special caucus to discus the matter?"

Weird creatures, humans.

Colette watched and listened, trying to keep up and take notes on what the professor was saying. She even attempted to draw the growth chart, though each stage came out looking odd - even the squishy blobby one.

Lots of information came in the little bit of time that had passed. It was all quite confusing, especially the monster bit. If they weren't going to go over it in a lesson, shouldn't she try to get as much information now? Probably. Or probably not. Raising her hand, Colette asked, "Uh. Well... if they used to be monster fish, does that mean they could have come to Halloween Town?" The Reaper believe it was a very sensible question.

Riley didn't want to disturb Gabrian during class, but it would be rude not to respond to his question. So, her response was simply After class, we shall plan. She then returned her enraptured attention to the professor's lesson.

Though she took no notes, Riley's eyes looked vaguely unfocused as she ingested all of the information and recorded it instantly. They sharpened suddenly as her mind began interpreting, and manipulating, what she had just learned.

Formerly ruled by water. Mostly water. Humans evolved from creatures of the water.

She'd been in this class all of five minutes, and already the wheels had begun turning.

Professor, she rose her hand and piped up. Would it be fair to say, then, that humans are dependant on water? To survive?

Humans evolving just like minipets.... ? Well, humans were strange and very confusing creatures, so it made sense they'd do strange and confusing things. She jolted down notes as quickly as she could, mostly about the human world being mostly water.

She tapped her pen against the notebook, before raising her hand. "What made land apparair, if the human world was mostly water ?" Did some of it just... dissapair or something ?

Really, the more she learned about humans, the hardest it became to think she'd once been one. Perhaps the reaper had been mistaken ? She'd certainly didn't remember ever being a sea monster thing.

Not that she actually remembered anything before coming to Halloween Town, but details.