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Nene turned her blank stare to the teacher when her name was called, and she was asked a question. She restrained herself from sighing, such questions were hard - for humans. "Elemental Manipulation is something you can be born with, while Nature Alchemy is a forced thing." She raised one eyebrow quickly before dropping it, showing she was confident that she was correct. The corner of her mouth twitched when she realized something; she could mouth off to this woman. She had already been banished from the Heavens, nothing could compare to that embarrassment. "Any simpleton would know something as basic as that. In fact, I'm surprised I'm even in this class. Can I go do something actually interesting? Alchemy is for the desperate who don't have the physical or mental strength to get by in life." She sighed before cursing her old master. "Hera...I hope Hades feeds you to Cerberus one of these days..." She snickers a bit before returning back to her neutral attitude. Her expression stoic while her posture relaxed.
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Hearing his name his eyes rose to the teacher, eyebrows slightly narrowed. "....I'd rather not." Orion said quietly with a slight shrug, pulling his hands from his pockets and placing it on the desk he was clearly unhappy to be sitting in the classroom. His dark eyes looked at the teacher, as if his answer was of testing how the other would react.

Orion knew the answer, this class was unecessary to him. Alchemy would never benefit him, or so he assumed. Idiotic Rebel.. It hissed quietly. The boys right eyebrow twitched for a moment.

Eli just continued to look at the student. "Well, then, it's a good thing this wasn't an optional question, isn't it? You get to tell us anyways, since you seem to be so knowledgeable about all this that it is no longer interesting." Ooooh, that was harsh. He probably should have been nicer... but Orion always acted so disinterested in his class (which was a choice science*), and it irked him. Why choose a class that bored you? Eli much preferred the students who didn't quite understand everything, but actually tried, to the students who understood everything and simply didn't apply themselves.

((*Meaning that you have a few sciences to choose from, and you must choose one, but it can be any of the sciences listed.))

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Riah sitting at the front of the classroom, her face cupped in her hands. She was rather enjoying finding out the differences between Elemental Manipulation and Nature Alchemy. She didn't always enjoy having the Headmistress as her teacher, but there was nothing she could do about that. Obviously, she knew all about Elemental Manipulation, seeing as she was born with it. She sighed as Nene answered The Headmistress's question. Although she enjoyed class, she didn't like anwering questions, just in case they were wrong, and she looked stupid.

Unsurprised at the praise, Vio stared hard at the women at the front. So far, only she and a few other teachers held a smigen of Vio's respect. Because of that, Vio accumulated as much data as she could about the Headmistress. If she required any assistance, Vio could carry out any task effiecently and quickly.
In boredom, Vio lazily roamed her eyes to Nene. Personally, the female rubbed Vio in a way that spelled danger. Not one to riffle with unwarranted paranoia, Vio kept a safe distance. There were several instances when Vio wished to rake her clawed hands down her face. Blantant disrespect to certain things angered Vio.
She herself had been subjected to Nene's dislike once. The day had been sunny with flowers in bloom. Reminded of home, Vio took refuge in the gardens. Nene had appeared sometime in the day and held the most hateful look. It had been brief and she soon left. It had been a while since then but Vio refused to forget it.
What I would give to eat her loathful form. She thought grumpily as Nene answered and insulted the Mistress.

The new headmistress nodded at the response. "Good... but I no sarcasm next time. As for Alchemy being the power of the weak," she took a piece of chalk off the board. "Then you wouldn't mind if I drew the 'Signum of Nex' here on the ground and had you stand in it?" she asked, tapping the chalk on the desk. The Signum was a powerful and forbidden alchemy. It drained the life force of the person trapped within it, transforming it into pure power and infusing it into the one who drew the circle. Thus the apt name, Seal of Death.

"If Alchemy was such a... weak form of magics, nothing would happen to you." Her icy glare shot straight through the student. The words, as she spoke them, were in a tone so cold they nearly froze the air around her. She pushed her glasses up with her middle finger. Normally, she was fairly easy to get along with. But irritate her, and she was more than willing to show what the result would be.

"If not, you may sit down and you and Ms. Lolin see me after class," she said, walking behind the desk and drawing a few more things on the board. Three advanced Alchemic symbols intersecting each other. She gave a brief lecture about the dangers and advantages of crossing said circles, which if done incorrectly could, if the caster was lucky, blow off their arm. If they were unlucky... well, there were plenty of craters that had once been the homes of wannabe alchemists.

After the lecture, she sat behind the chair, removing her Tarot cards from her pocket without looking at them and placing them on the desk in front of her. "For your homework, your professor told me to assign you the next three sections in your books and to draw the circle on page 57 freehand. You are dismissed, all but the two I mentioned earlier." She crossed her fingers, making a small tent, not looking down at the 22 powerful magical artifacts that lay beneath her fingers.

Eli pursed his lips at Orion's behavior, but did not stop the boy. It probably was necessary to let him have a moment to himself, it seemed, and Eli wasn't one to take that from a person. He read briefly over the paper, and after determining that it was correct, he read it aloud to the class. "This is the correct answer," he clarified. "Now, regarding your homework.... Everyone, please turn to page sixty-three in your books." He continued to speak as if Orion had not left.