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Tobias fidgeted in his chair and chewed on his fingers nervously. "Plants grow roots, and some roots are very very long so they can get lots of the good stuff from the ground. Uhm...I like plants that eat bugs. Not just the snappy snappy ones, but....uhm.....the ones that look like drinks. Like cups? Uhm....pitchers?" He fidgeted again. "I think...?"

Jaden stood up shyly when it was his turn to be called upon, tucking his wings in close to his body. "You can plant certain things to help gardens do better," he said in a soft voice. "Some plants make bugs go away, and even small animals that might try to eat your garden. And some plants help each other grow if they're planted together." He wasn't really sure how all that worked since the gardening book he'd been flipping through hadn't been too specific, but it had been fascinating to him nonetheless.

"I like lots of plants, but chocolate mint is pretty cool," he said after a moment of contemplation. "It smells kinda like minty chocolate, and even tastes a little like it too." With that he'd gratefully sat down, glad he was no longer in the spotlight.

Ella hated these assignments. What good came out of her embarrassing herself in-front of her entire class? There was absolutely no point in her presenting, as each time she had Ella only managed to stammer a few acceptable sentences before collapsing into a puddle of shame. Her turn was quickly coming, and Ella had tried to imagine several scenario's to get out of the terrible fate she was about to face. Excuse herself to the bathroom? Ask to see the nurse? Slip away under her desk and hope no one saw her? All those actions required attention, too! She couldn't just leave a note on the teacher's desk and flee unseen! She'd probably get detention, actu-

Oh. Ella froze as she realized it was her turn. She darted into an upright position, knocking her chair over in her haste. A teal color touched her cheeks as the hybrid practically illuminated in shame. Oh Nine, oh Nine, now look what she'd done!

"I-I like that plants u-use photosynthesis." She stammered, carefully sounding out the last word as if her life depended on it. "I-It reminds me o-of that Above race.... F-Fey? And my favorite p-plant is lavender, c-cuz it reminds me of my mom. Lyra. Lyra is my mom. She's my mom." Her nerves won her over as she tripped over her last words, frantically fixing her chair and slamming into it, tail rolling into her lap. Oh Nine, don't look at her.... don't look at her..... don't look at her....

Thian didn't like grubby freshlings, even if he technically was one himself. He didn't like sitting in a circle and sharing his feelings, and he kind of hated flowers. They made him sneeze. Other plants were okay, he supposed. But his favorite? There were so many to choose from! How was he supposed to know?

"There are some plants that don't even need dirt," he began after taking some time to think about things. "They take water and vitamins from the air and that's it." The demon swallowed. "And I like ivy. I like it because it wraps around stuff so slow that you don't even notice. One day you wake up and it's just there. Around a chair or a stick or anything. It's cool." Thian folded his hands on the desk in front of him and went silent after that, trusting the class to move on.

Science for Citali, was another one of her not so well liked subjects. Everyone assumed that just because she liked to read, that she would like all the subjects in school, but that just simply was not the case at all. Science just was not her forte and she struggled from time to time with it. She hoped that today's assignment would be easy, especially since they had a substitute teacher. Yet, when the worksheet was placed upon the top of her desk she couldn't help but groan slightly, and then quickly hid her face with her hand once she realized someone else might have heard the groan.

Mitosis? What was this? Could she remember what all these phases did? Metaphase? Telophase? What in the world did each thing do? Citali stared long and hard at the worksheet, and finally giving a resigned sigh, she grabbed her purple pen and made her attempt on the worksheet, feeling flustered the whole time.

Please just let me get a passing grade on this assignment. She thought, feeling hopeless as deep down she knew she'd fail on this particular worksheet.

Plants weren't really Vederat's thing, but if their teacher wanted him to talk about his favorite plants and his favorite facts about plants...well, he could do that. "My favorite fact about plants is that they produce fruit. There's lots of different types of fruit, and most of them are sweet. And they're all healthy, too! There's not a lot of things that are healthy and sweet at the same time, but those are some of them." As for the other thing... "Um, my favorite plant is grapes. Grapes are a fruit, and they're also really sweet, but I also like the vines they grow on. They look like crazy trees, and also when they grow on arbors, they make lots of shade, and I really like that." Satisfied, he sat back in his seat.

Honestly, Yaviss couldn't make heads nor tails of today's lesson. It just seemed so...abstract. And pointless. Science wasn't Yaviss's strong point in the first place, so he couldn't really see how any of this would be useful. Why did it matter that all the tiny bits of his body--because oh yeah, apparently there were tiny bits of his body--divided and reproduced? So what? Yaviss didn't care. It was all just...gah.

Nonetheless, he wanted to do well in school. He took notes and carefully went through the work sheet. He kept his fingers crossed under his desk...maybe that would help him get it?