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Today was to be Kaydon's first double class, and although he was excited he couldn't help but feel a bit...well.

Confused.

Why in the world would they send him such different boys at the same time? Why not two snakes or two horses? His usual plan to teach the students about themselves was destroyed. Today they would learn about cells, like any other student might. He waited for them behind his desk, wondering if there was legs or just a tail beneath the part of the snake boy his ID picture showed.

As per usual with Valens he was running a little late, not because he wanted to be or because he was slacking off or anything like that. Instead it was because his sense of direction was just... terrible. He ran on passed the right door to the right class and behind him the Silver dragoness gave a little sighing sound, "Valens! You went to far!" She called after him, tail thumping against the ground in a slightly exasperated fashion. She loved her boy, really she did, but there were days that he really needed to learn to pay attention better.

The horse boy slid a bit on his hooves, scrambling to catch himself before he turned around to run back to where she was... slid again and caught himself on her, "Here? Okay, thanks El." He said, patting her smooth scales before he brushed off in an attempt to make himself appear a bit more presentable. Not an easy feat given his clothing was a torn up wreck and his hair was going in all directions. Perhaps he should have saved his exercise time for after the class instead of before it. He would remember this for next time he told himself before he head into the classroom, "Hello!" He greeted those inside before his eyes fell upon Ter and he froze in place.

A snake... Oh hell why did he have to be here? Valens felt the overwhelming urge to turn around and head back out the door. He didn't much like snakes, something about them just gave the horse teen chills up and down his back. He felt a nudge against his back from Ellie's nose and he sighed, stepping forward to take up a seat at a desk, making sure that there was one between himself and the snake. His ears flicked back and forth before ultimately laying back against his head as he tried to ignore the snake and instead watch the teacher that was there instead.

Ellie smiled before she moved to sit with the wyvern, giving the other female a polite nod of her head before she settled down to watch the proceedings, hoping that her boy did well in this class.

Ter gave a glance over at Valens, remembering him from several other classes that they ended up sharing before he flicked his tongue out at the horse. It seemed as though he wanted to keep space between them, not that he cared in the least but he did find himself wondering the hell the horse's problem with him was. He gave a little hissing sound, meh... it shouldn't worry him. It wasn't as though he even liked hanging out with other guys aside from a very select few that he deemed good enough. He'd prefer the company of women any day which made this class a bit of a failure if you asked the snake.

He jerked his head over to looking at the teacher when he spoke, starred at him for a long, drawn out moment before he gave a half shrug, "Nope, didn't have a clue what sort of class I was taking so I didn't bring one." He said, he wasn't used to taking notes as more often then not all of his classes were physical in nature which required nothing of him notes wise.

He glanced over at the horse for a moment, wondering if he'd bothered to bring supplies like that. He really hoped not else he would look a bit like a moron, not something that Ter liked in the least bit.

Ter flicked out his tongue again at Valens then gave a fanged smirk, he knew fear when he tasted it. This could be rather useful to him he thought as he looked over the items that the horse had on his desk, he gave the teacher a momentary glance before he rose up on his coils, leaned over the desk that was between himself and Valens before he snagged up one pen and the notebook. He opened it up, tore out a good amount of paper, then tossed it back onto the desk.

A moment later he was settling back into his seat, looking quite pleased with himself as he looked over at Kaydon, "Alright, I'm good." He said, grinning away as he wrote his name on the top of the first sheet of paper in his rather messy handwriting. He could read it so that was all that really mattered.

Kaydon arched a brow, watching the proceedings with a bit of apprehension. The snake boy was playing with the horse boy, he was almost certain. He would have offered paper of his own if he hadn't just dodged over to tear it out himself. Hm. He would have to make a note to test these two separately.

"...alright then," he said finally, "Today we'll be going over basic animal cells. Just something to start you on the right foot in biology. God knows you'll be taking a lot of classes in it."

He drew an oblong shape on the board, gave it a large circle near the top, filled it with dots, and drew a few odd bean-shaped things alongside a strange little squiggle.

"The outside of an animal cell is generally called a cell membrane. How incredibly creative, hm?" He labeled it as he spoke, as he did with all of the other portions of the crude drawing. "The...well. The goo, the fluid everything floats in is call cytoplasm. It's something like The Blob after hazing rolled over a few dozen yards of random trash."

He drew a line out from the large circle.

"This is the nucleus. Consider it a kind of...brain of the cell. It's full of DNA and it controls all the processes of the...ah. Well, the other parts. Organelles, they're called. I wish I was kidding. There's another bulb within he nucleus called the nucleolus. Again, I wish I was kidding. For now, don't worry about its function. It includes DNA and RNA and just...well. Not important for you right now. Perhaps if you end up in an advanced class later on. Just know where it is and what it's called. When a cell wishes to reproduce, a smaller nucleus will break off and become its own cell, taking some of the cell membrane and cytoplasm with it. Much more parasitic than a human child."

He moved to the little bean-shaped doohickeys.

"These are the mitochondria. They control a cell's growth and death. It is to a cell what a pituitary gland is to you...ah. Well, close enough, anyway. It also supplies the chemical energy the cell needs to run, sort of like a tiny nuclear power plant."

Once more to the squiggly line.

"This is a...well. A Golgi Body. A Golgi Apparatus. Whatever you want to call it, it's sort of like a very complex stomach. It packages up proteins and the like either to be excreted out of the cell or used within." Two arrows were drawn.

He hadn't rushed, perse, but he hadn't taken any time for questions. He knew normal children would have no interest in the complex inner workings of an animal cell; they wanted to see the little buggers.

"Any questions so far?"

Valens's ears turned forward before one turned toward Ter when he spoke and for once the snake seemed almost... funny instead of scary because of what he was saying. He didn't laugh though, not wanting to upset the teacher or look bad in front of Ellie. Instead he lifted a hand to cover an almost chuckle with a cough before rapidly shaking his head, "No questions." He said as he had no questions really since he had no idea what he should be asking... there was so much that was said by the teacher...

Maybe the teacher would do as Ter requested and repeat it in a more simple fashion? He sure hoped so.

Ter lifted an eyebrow as the weird... things were put on display before he found himself grinning, showing fangs when the teachers said that they weren't meant to understand yet, "Thank the Gods for that." He muttered as he starred down at his blank paper and set to scribbling down the things the teacher was saying. He didn't exactly care as much as he probably should but at the same time he didn't feel like failing this class since it would likely mean taking it again... a whole other session of this guy that spoke in a weird, foreign language that sounded almost like English but not really.

Skin, goo, dragging... his notes picked up on the important bits but they weren't exactly word for word and rather messy. Note taking was no his strong suit which was more then a little obvious to anyone that might be watching but when had he really had to take them of late?

Kaydon continued on pointing out the parts and explaining their functions scientifically, followed by an extremely unscientific explanation. These kids perhaps weren't the most interested, but they were fun, and that was good. The lesson was followed by a little game; I point to this, you tell me what it is. Then, for the remainder of the period, the boys and their teacher simply scoped out the rest of the unicellular organisms in the microscope, commenting and adding bits of new knowledge here and there. He was a bit sad when the bell rang, really.

"Alright, out you two go! Class is dismissed!"