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Moira smacked her head into the desk, only to get an irritated pair of squeaks as the headcrabs riding on her back shifted away from the movement. "M'sorry," she mumbled, her face buried in her textbook.

This was boring. So. Boring. She was so ready to be done, and yet time was stretching on. She was pretty sure the clock had just jumped backwards. The headcrab zombie groaned quietly and pushed herself up on one elbow, staring at the book.

... Nope.

Still boring.

She glanced off to one side, hoping to catch someone else's gaze. Maybe they could pass notes, or something... anything. Because Jack. So. Boring.

Thud.

A moment later, a paper airplane floated onto Selene's desk.



... Presumably, there was only one person in the room that called everyone after the name of a baked good.

He probably should have cared more that there were paper airplanes soaring around the room and that the boil in the seat two desks over was doing something very suspicious with what looked like some sort of insect - but Jinhai instead was attempting to stay focused on his own work. It was surprisingly easy to tune out everything else around him and only see what lay exactly in front of him - namely the last paper he needed to work on. But unfortunately, the paper itself was not exactly easy, and Jinhai was staring at it with a look of deep upset and utmost concentration.

Maybe if he concentrated really hard it would just do itself and he wouldn't have to worry about it.

But, thought Jinhai, a slight frown tugging one corner of his lips down as he idly tapped his penstrictor against the desktop, that was an illogical way of looking at things, and the best course of action would be to just keep concentrating until it was done.

...hopefully that wouldn't be too difficult.

The paper airplane thunked into her leg; Moira quickly retrieved it, hunching further over her book with an expression something like >3 on her face. She unfolded the paper, read it, then tore another page out of her notebook.



This missive was rather... rather too large for the paper airplane, she felt. People might see the writing on the wings and read her secret letters!! Moira quietly coaxed Gordon down onto her desk, then tied the paper around the headcrab's leg before sending him skittering away. The poison headcrab sidled over to Selene and bumped into her.

If Selene looked back at Moira, she would see a big smile and a double thumbs-up.

Arcana sat quietly in his seat with the same idea as his friend Selene. Read and study and get this studd down so he could pass his exams and move on from Amityville.

It wasn't like he disliked Amityville...he just wanted to start that next phase of adulthood. He could see in his card readings (which he did often just to see if anything jumped at him) that there would be change in him. For him. He could only sum it up to graduating from the school.

He barely registered the flying airplanes and student playing with some minipet. A problem in his book was clearly more disturbing to his mind. Eyeing it before sighing, he scooted his chair over to his friend Selene and frowned.

"S..Selene?" He paused, stifling the awkward feeling in him everytime he went near his friends before breathing in. "Can you help me with this really quick? The notes I had aren't really helping me and I just don't get this part." If he could rely on anyone, it was the booksnake after all. He admired her for her studious behaviour.

There was a set of cards in Tarot’s hands, and it wasn’t her personal deck of cards. It was flashcards. The reaper’s lips moved, forming silent words as she intently eyed the terms on the tiny piece of paper. She refused to let the noise inside the classroom distract. She was going to study and study well, even if Tarot felt confident she knew the concepts covered in the exam. Tarot shifted in her seat, one leg over the other as she leaned against the chair. She would have continued to shuffle through her cards if she hadn’t heard Arcana’s quiet voice. Her gaze shifted toward her brother and Selene. Tarot watched him for a few seconds before her lips curved into a smile. Maybe she should have said something at them both, but she said nothing.

Instead she continued to watch the pair for a few more moments before turning toward her neighbor. She had noticed that the boil hadn’t made much progress on his paper, whatever it was. Tarot leaned over slightly. “Um—“ She began to speak up, but then stopped in case he didn’t want to be bothered.

Selene quickly hopped back up to her seat and kept her eyes on Moira, so she wouldn't be surprised when another plane came flying. But instead, she sent one of her little minipet friends that lived on her, which Selene thought was a much safer idea. So Moira would receive a gentle, tentative smile back when the thumbs were given, and Selene even tried to imitate the gesture. It was truly too hesitant to really showcase the thumbs, but she tried.

Before the minipet could make it to her, however, she heard a soft and familiar voice calling for her, and her tentative smile vanished. She turned, very slowly, back to Arcana. All of the meekness she'd managed to shed in her little interaction with Moira, came back with a vengeance, and she hunched slightly, keeping her face as well hidden underneath her braided black hair as she could. The little beads tinkled as they hit one another.

"Ah-ahh, ssssure, I can.. try." Her voice was a whisper, only audible because of how quiet the room was. She leaned in closer, and then immediately shied away, suddenly embarrassed at the proximity that Arcana's question had put them. "Let me jusssst take a look." Inwardly, she cursed her tongue as her slithering stutter came out, and reached out very quickly to grab the book and pull it towards her.

But she never managed to make it that far. Before she could take hold of the book, thunder filled the air, sending the already shivering Selene out of her seat in surprise. She clutched her chest and fainted almost instantly, too shocked to even process whatever that sound was.