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She was a level up from the wolves. Well, at least that meant he didn't dislike her. Her eyes widened when Pan licked her face. After blinking a few times Evie quickly wiped her face with her hand. "Eww," Evie whined, hoping her blush was not seen. No one had ever licked her, or done anything else physical for that matter, except her parents, grandparents, and the pack. She would have never expected someone completely opposite from her to do anything near talking to her, let alone licking her.

She felt her ears flatten against her head once more and her tail go limp when he asked if she would do anything like he had done without permisson. Truth was she was somewhat more free to do what she wanted now that she was out of the pack, she'd never followed the rules too well in the pack anyway, but there were indeed things, like licking, she would not do without being told she could. It was then the sound of the footsteps she had heard before stopped close to her and Pan, and then there was a voice.

Her feline features immediately came back to life as she peeked around Pan at the girl. Evie's mouth opened to greet her before Pan swiped the hat the girl was wearing off of her head. After hearing the two converse Evie quickly took the hat from Pan and skipped over to the girl.

She felt her mature side began to emit from her as she handed the girl's hat over to her. "Here," she said in a more adult tone, much unlike her own. "Sorry about Pan," Evie told the girl before looking over her shoulder and glaring at the boy. "He can be rude sometimes," she continued, looking back at the girl. Then as soon as her mature side showed it seemed to disappear and she was grinning like a child again.

"So, you're a transfer student? It's nice to meet you! I'm Evie, and that's Pan," Evie told the girl, nodding her head to Pan when she mentioned his name. Not waiting for an reply from the girl Evie's tail began to sway rapidly as it usually did when she met someone new. "You're a witch, right?"

The woman leaned over the desk towards the computer. Her finger flinging the mouse wheel down the screen as the dark eyes scanned the small objectives over the semester. The pair of thin lips curled at the tone of the familar voice. Ah, the days Kiala spend trying to find something to entertain just that one student.

"Welcome back." The woman's tone not so surprised. Removing her attention from the computer to glance at the boy who seemed to have his eyes on the new bodies. Quickly shaking her head with a humor manner. Shoes clicking against the floor and appeared at the sinks that were placed against the wall nearest the hall way. Cleverly, Kiala stuffed the hard plastic drain with a roll of paper towels to stop the water from flowing down. A delicate looking hand reached towards the faucet and turned on the cold and gave a light twist to the warm knob to make the water less cold. "If you want to gawk at the students you can do that later. Come and help me with something." The female's eyes darted towards Ran with a smile to her face. "I want to test a student's nerve." Knowing all to well that he loved to play with feelings of the other beings.

Leaving the water to run she turned to the back of the class room towards a series of cupboards. Throwing the doors of the cupboards opened to reveal shelfs of plastic bags filled with fluids and dark objects hiding inside. "I need four or five of the orange labeled bags to be put into the sink."

After barking out the order, Kiala was already towards the window that towered over the drawers that kept most of the supplies that her students would need, Kiala's smile never went away and only the shimmering of metal objects helped to make it wider. Pulling out four trays, holding them close to her chest, shutting the drawer with her powerful thigh, and decorated the front desk with them. Stacking the retangular trays on top of each other.

"Pssh," Pan snorted as the hat was taken from him. "Actin' all high n' mighty now, are we Katzchen?" he asked, winking at the new girl, Miya. "She wouldn't know if I'm rude or not, she's only just met me. It might be a silly facade to hide the fact that I'm so verrrry uncomfortable around her dominant personality.

"At any rate, there's a uniform, but I can't even remember the last time someone wore it." "He paused thoughtfully, "Or maybe it was me. I wore the girl's one for a semester a few years ago. Mostly dropped off since then." He nodded, his volume having dropped down a few levels. At this point, he was mostly talking to himself.

Besides, this girl would be the first witch of the new term. Perhaps she was something interesting. Certainly shy, though. He could smell the nerves rolling rolling off her in waves of hormones. It was adorable, really.

"Course your a witch. Don't see Mages running around in pointy hats, do we? What's your variety, though, that's the real question."

Momo chuckled to herself as an old joke finally clicked in her head. The voices outside were now a tad louder than before, but not a single student had made it to her classroom. She looked at the clock once more, only five more minutes. Her steps were quiet as she walked around the room one more time, patting Selene on her way to the door.

She leaned against the wooden frame for a few seconds, watching students standing about idly. The older ones sharing condensed stories about vacation, while the more timid freshmen stood together in small clusters. They stood out like sore thumbs, something that amused the teacher every time a new semester began.

She then clapped her hands, just loud enough for the students to hear it but not to interrupt their talk. "Come now children, class starts in two minutes. Tardiness is a rare art seldom appreciated by most faculty members." She spoke with a big smile and a tone so sweet it was bound to make even the average Joe sick.

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Little Miya giggled when Evie suggested the importance of their friendship, and nodded delightedly. "Mm-hmm!" She heard the clapping behind Evie and tilted her upper body, making a small, curious noise, and smiling when she heard the sweet tone, and saw the kind, genuine smile the teacher held. She hoped she would have her!

"Okay! See you later!" She smiled and waved to Evie as she turned to leave. "N-nya!! W-wait! Two minutes!?" Miyu suddenly shouted. Evie had already gone, and the small witch quickly turned to her other new acquaintance. She was a bit more shy just being around him, but she had a very important question to pose. "U-Um, Pan?" She blushed lightly, embarrassed that she had to ask, and continued. "Do you know where Ms. McDowell's room is? I'm supposed to have her for Biology today..."

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She'd been at it for hours now, since roughly eleven PM the night before, and the sun had gotten to it's most annoying point, with the angle being just right to slip through her windows and blind her, reflecting off everything she owned and toyed with.

It was no accident, either. Every day for the first few weeks of term, it was like this, just exactly when classes were beginning. It was supposed to be a reminder that she had a job here, but so few Otherfolk had any interest in mechanics, machinery or technology. They all had their magics to do things for them. Probably three people int he entire school had a negative opinion about her classes being canceled, and they certainly didn't sign her checks.

Not so with the Yellow Mages, Horatio sighed to herself. There was only so much use to be had in seeing the auras of others, when you couldn't manipulate them. We were born to be integrated into the human world. Not to be siphoned off into fantasy land and separated from the only purpose we have. Of course, most of her moroseness was due to the fact that she had failed once again to achieve her goal.

She was getting closer, she knew it, but so far, the thing looked more like a pile of scrap metal than anything. It would animate if she told it to, and suddenly it's avian shape would become clear, especially when the little speaker activated and it cried out birdsong, but the damned thing wouldn't work by itself.

It had to be activated, and that was the entire problem.

Still, she had a theory to test, and there wasn't much chance she was going to get it done without some outside help. There were so few Necromancy witches in the school, though, and the only Blue Mages they had were permanently busy playing school nurse.

Thus, she had only one choice. Does she have a class today? Mmm. She doesn't update on the web server, poor thing. I guess I'll have to find out the old fashioned way.

And with that, she gathered the metal bird, settled it onto a holder that she summoned from her currently-compacted wings, hid it from sight beneath copious hair, and set out for Momo Tasartir's class, to find out if Death's Fae would sense a life lost from the unseen bird, or whether it was another failure.

Evie's eyebrows rose when she saw Pan and Miya walk past her. Did they have the same class as her? Ears perked at the though of having her new friends with her Evie quickly walked over to Pan, watching as Miya walked into the classroom.

Side glancing at the the mouse Evie looked at him questioningly. "Going to be late as you said, huh?" Evie then quickly looked away from him and walked into the classroom after Miya. Grinning Evie quickly walked up to the witch and looped her arm through Miya's. "You have Biology, too?"

Not waiting for Miya's answer Evie took a look around the room. The room certainly did seem biology like. "Ms. K.. McDowell!?" Evie called and then bit her tongue. She had almost called the teacher by her nickname but quickly remembered Pan's warning. Her nose wrinkled at the smell that reached her.

She didn't think that Miya could smell it, considering how Evie had cat senses, but there was certainly a different kind of odor in the room. What was it though? That was what she didn't know. But her childlike curiosity was at it's peak, and that usually meant trouble for her.