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There were a lot of things Frost was used to seeing in school hallways. Gnomes running here and there with girls panties. Slime oozing out of lockers. Students sleeping randomly on the floor. Others trying to hide, (very poorly). Things frozen. Things on fire. Trees however? Trees, well a spaling really, was new.

Red eyes went over the growing thing, debating if he should mess with it. It was just… standing there. In the middle of the hallway. Come the stream of students, it would just make the hall even harder to navigate. Tilting his head, he tapped the bark experimentally. Perhaps it was a reaper’s magic gone wrong? That one teacher’s… accident? Frost wasn’t quite sure. Huffing he pokes at it. “How queer.”

The sudden small movement had red eyes looking down, watching. It was very odd indeed. The sudden eye and face had him step back. He’d never quite encountered a tree like this. If anything, the fact it was talking proved it wasn’t some mutant minipet.

“Less you being queer so much as the sudden… sapling to have grown in the middle of the hallway. Trees do not often grow in buildings, much less her in Amity.” He huffed. “Are you a student then? I apologize. I had thought you a… well. I thought you a tree growing in the hall. Not a common thing you’ll understand.”

Frost tilted his head, unsure what to say. So it was a student then. Red eyes watched as she seemed to revert to her more school appropriate form. Some kind of plant demon? Monster? His nose just got ‘plant’ really. “If it smells like a tree and looks like a tree one might assume it is a tree. Not to mention I have encountered stranger things in these halls. Some students like to hold their experiments here and there… or leave things growing in lockers that they shouldn’t.” Someone had left milk in the lockers once. Then they forgot about it.

One scent he never wanted to smell again.

“And Amity is not like the maul, where the need for appearances is greater. Trees might grow there for looks, but our school has no need for such. That and if they did-“ he looked down at her ‘roots’, “-they are in pots, not in the hall itself.” The touching of his ears just got them twitching flicking back and forth. A brow raised, the wolfos didn’t seem to mind it, only paying minor notice to the action.

Frost stared at the ghoul. She was like he had been once. Just about a year ago actually. “It was a good trick. With some more practice I’m sure you’ll end up even fooling the teachers.” He smiled, tag giving a small wag. The ability to change into a tree, good for if you were in the woods, less so in a school.

At her shock to the idea of living things growing in the lockers. “Erm… try mold and mushrooms. They don’t need sunlight and they get plenty of water from the humidity in the lockers. They are fine, I assure you.” Last thing he wanted, or needed, was a student letting out the various stenches. While other might enjoy them, he would not. “Now yes, the maul.” Subject change, glorious subject change.

“It’s a very nice place. If you’re practicing it would be a rather safe place to do it I think. Here you might have to deal with gnomes. I- Yes.” His ears twitched again. “I am a white wolfos, we are from the fear of wolves in part. But a dryad?” His head tilted, ears flicking forward. “I have not met one of you kind before. But if you a tree spirit, shall I be seeing you in the ghost dorms?”

Frost shrugged. Defense mechanism or not, it was a rather interesting ability. Though if she thought the school scary.. it would explain why she used it in the middle of the hall. With how many students would run around.. it could be a bit frightening, even he’d admit that.

“The Maul is filled with people, not that it matters greatly. Unless it’s giftmas, the place is big enough you can pass somewhat unnoticed.” From her tone Frost guessed the ghoul wasn’t much used to people and when she explained Frost had one thought.

She really needed to get out more.

“Gnomes however, might try to carve into you, cut you down.. pee on you.” He shuddered. “Vulgar annoying little things. They would indeed, harm a tree if they knew it was a student. It’s best if you just keep your distance from them if you can. Or, can always call someone to help deal with them. After my own tiff with the bastards- ah pardon my vulgarity. They just… upset me with their antics more often than not.” He loathed them. He really did.

A sniff, a tilt of his head, Frost relaxed a bit, coming down from his gnome rant. Pity you do not have a more intangible form. I lack one myself, but I’ve found it’s a rather interesting ability. I’ve quite envious of those who have it.” He could float a few inches at best. “It might have to do with the fact you’re a physical being who is one with the physical world. While those like myself are of less physical aspects? It’s neither here nor there I suppose. We are what we are.”

A bow, Frost stepped back. “I am known as Frost in the Storm, or, if you prefer, King. It matters little to me Miss Catreena. I’m a third year hob as well, so if you have need of me, I am certainly at your disposal.”

Ah, she didn't know of giftmas? Well, by next year he had no doubt she'd be well informed. "It's a holiday where people make many purchases for the sake of gifting. And no, the place does not shrink. It becomes crowded is all." She was a curious thing he decided. Not much a threat.. that made her prey.

Not that he was hunting, but, it was simply how he filed away names and faces.

"And while gnomes are such things, they have their uses." Her touching his face had only a raised eyebrow.
"I am fond of my skills, though the desire for more is not unfounded. I am still a youth at the end of the day, in need of much training. I hope by the time I graduate, I can be much better at my abilities. "King is an old nickname. I was named heir in my clan so my pack mates took to calling me the little king... although my rank would be alpha in time." He brushed it off. It was all well in the past.

"What of you though?" He asked, curious. "Why have you come to Amity even if it is so frightening?"