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Ah, so she was covering a magic class once again. Sarah had the notes spread out before her and she now just had to wait for her five students to show up. She'd read up on them and noticed that two had not had any classes in the subject before. Two had had one previous class and the last had had several classes already. She just hoped she wouldn't be boring the last student too much. But going over the basics again, never seemed to hurt anyone.

A magic class Kliken thought to himself in awe as he walked down the hall with his dragon shuffling along at his side. He was so excited when he got news he got to go to such an interesting and grown up sort of class. He couldn't wait to learn! Due to it being a group class and as such during normal class out, he was dropped off by Than this time instead of by his mother. She was looking forward to hearing all about his class though, wanted him to do well and take lots of notes.

Not that he hadn't been planning on doing that already, he wanted to be able to do really well in every class he took so he made sure to have a notebook and a pen in his bag along with other school supplies, "Here we are, come on Tural." He said, calling over to the dragon who was pawing at some of the tiles on the ground, snuffling at them as though he found a scent that was quite interesting.

It was only after Kliken opened the door to the classroom that he realized the dragon was following a scent that went inside the room. There was more sniffing and then a squeaking chirp from Tural who was starring with wide eyes at the large dragon inside the class... then bolted forward toward her in excitment.

"N-No! T-Tural!" He cried, chasing after the Cruzoor who was in all ways fascinated with Lucia's white dragoness.

Down the hallway, Ala wandered, glancing back over her shoulder at Bob occasionally. The brass had not been exactly fond of going to another class where he just had to sit and listen, but now he seemed more reluctant than usual. "What's wrong?" Ala asked as they found the classroom.

"Another brass... here." Bob answered, short for once. Ala chuckled and gave his shoulder a pat before opening the door. The pair made their way inside and the dragon glanced over for a moment to where the other dragons were all clustered before settling down around a desk.

Ala grinned and waved at Lucia, glancing up to the teacher. "Hey! You teach magic, too?" She'd had the teacher for a couple of biology classes previously. How odd...

Ah, all of her students had managed to arrive on time. "Settle down, please!" She called out, waiting for her students to get their dragons under control and themselves seated. "I'm Dr. Sarah Walker and, yes, I teach magic as well." She smiled at Alaqua, then glanced at the entire class. "I'm a subsitute and do not proclaim myself a master of the magical arts. However, we'll be covering basics today, so notebooks out as I'm sure you'll want to be taking notes."

"Now most of you have very little or no magic experience so I expect some of this to be fairly new to you. Okay, who can tell me the two categories of magic users? Or at least is brave enough to give me a guess."

There was a lot of activity all of a sudden, a lot of students and a lot of dragons and all of it had Kliken's head whirling. He hadn't been in such a big class before, the biggest group he'd been around was back when he in quarantine and he wasn't really feeling well enough to be nervous. Now though he felt quite out of place, unsure of himself, and nervous... until he heard a familiar voice. He turned quickly and found himself starring at someone he knew, "D-Damaris!" He said, feeling excitement rise in his chest, "Y-Yes, that is Tural!"

Before he could say to much more to her the teacher was calling for quiet and he did his best to get Tural under control. It took him a long moment before he was able to sit down in a seat next to the one person he knew in the class. He looked at the students who were here and felt very young... he reached down to lay a hand on the Cruzoor's head to help to steady his nerves.

Tural gave a disappointed chirp as he was stuck sitting next to his boy, he wanted to go and talk to the see the other dragons! There were so many of them and he'd never seen any other dragons before now! He could tell though that Kliken was nervous, more so now then in his other class so he would do his best to behave... so instead of wandering to the dragons he set to inspecting was nearest to him, snuffling at and licking what was in range.

The leech boy was digging into his bag to get out his notebook, he wanted to make sure to take excellent notes that he could study later. When he had his pen at the ready he looked at the teacher and for a moment struggle with the idea of being 'brave enough' to off an answer that could be wrong. He looked at Oliver when he gave a guess and lifted his hand to toss out a guess as well, he could do this... he could do this... he said it over and over in his mind like a mantra.

"Umm... H-Healing m-magic users and h-harmful magics u-users?" He guessed, quite proud of himself for getting out his thought when there were so many people around. It was always hard finding his voice when he was among strangers.

Lucía looks with curiosity to the new students she doesn't know anybody, waits Ala has just entered, awersome. She smile and wave to Ala. Then she start her thing for the class and give a look at Tiamat that said "Don't make trouble". She hear the teacher ask and think a little then said "Elemetal and materials?" she said , she dont remember it in of her other class.

Tiamat is happy to see a lot of little dragons but Lu said dont move she give looks at the little one she is courios about the croozor is so diferent and smell at water.

Sarah was glad that they were all at least trying to figure it out. "All very good guesses, though not what I was looking for. I was looking for 'learned and innate'. It refers to how a magic user learns their spells." She turned and wrote both terms on the board, underlining each and listing a few things under each heading.

"In learned magic, a user draws upon an external source for power. Innate has two subcategories: internal and external. External is similar to learned magic in that the user has a leyline or node they use for power. Internal has three types: spiritual, intellectual, and physical."

Here she paused and turned back to the students. "Any questions so far?"

Oliver smiled a little. He had tried at least, but as the teacher explained he found it quite interesting. He quickly began to take notes, jotting down all the key points neatly. After a moment of thought, he decided to ask a question. He waited until Kliken was done before raising his hand.

"Can anyone learn either kind? Does innate magic mean that the magic comes more naturally to someone?" he asked. 'Innate' did, after all, mean inborn. He was sure he would be a magic learner instead of having innate magic.