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Then covers her mouth

A LOOK at Eden.

Eden blushes

the teacher says "Eden, are you okay?"

"Oh dandy so sorry, slipped..duck."

Way in the back of the classroom where he is mostly slouched over his bag and peering at a hidden phone, dark eyes peer up at what is going on. His mouth moves, unheard.

She hunkers down, shifting uncomfortably in the too-small desk.

then something leaps out, a shadowy spray of death and the hunt in a feline form! It blurs past one leg, severing it... then blurs past another cutting it.

Eden has gone quiet, whispering a prayer"our father, whose bread's unleavened..."

The teacher sighs, and goes on not aware that a chimera is fighting a chimera... and goes "Now a lot of you may worry about some of these rules being so strict, but think of it as going pro. "

The faintest hint of a smirk on his lipless slash of a mouth - just the very edge upturned, as dark eyes flick to follow a fight few others see.

She watches the shadow-cat go at it, apparently with approval.

the poor skull thing shoots flames at it, but Lovecraft is... well, maddening in swiftness

And whacks off two more legs.

He counts up on his fingers, amused as she toys with the beastie, checking to see if any of the legs drops within reach.

A shake of her head, amused.

One does get scattered close and can be grabbed, Lovecraft begins tobat the now legless skull about the room

Just the tiniest of snickers.

...relatively speaking.

He drops his pencil on the floor, creating an excuse to scoop both it, and the leg back up into his bag.

One chimeric leg... and..

Class ends... "Okay, if anyone has questions I'll be here for an hour after school and you have my email."

Eye-roll and she swiftly disentangles herself from the stupid, cramped, stupid desk... it clatters briefly as she pops free, crashing into a neighbor.

"Hey..."

"Hey. Eden, yeah?"

Eden pulls her along beofre the person she crashed into can object, "Why was that thing after you?" A whisper.

She shrugs. "Dunno. Seems like it was just a thing? Lot of them here, you think?"

A faint snapping noise, Symon calling to Lovecraft with a flick of his fingers rather than a voice that would be hard to heard across the room. He holds his bag down low, the zipper pocket hanging open so that she can retreat again against unruly children stepping on tails or paws.

"Oh sure, legion."

She shakes her head NO.

He waits until more of the crowd has thinned before heading towards the others, a disembodied leg being toyed with between fingers. A pause, a few steps away from the girls, torn between saying something or slipping out the door.

"Hey Symon." A jerk of her chin.

He nods back to her, and tentatively holds out the leg. "This wasn't yours, was it?"

"No. You know what it was?"

He shrugs a little, leaning down to trail his fingers where they can drift across Lovecraft's back. "Lunch?"

"Sure?"

"No... I mean, it was lunch. S'far as cat's concerned. Why'd it go for you, though? Not smart to pick on the tank."

A snicker

Eden says "Sorry, I think I'm going evil. I laughed at horror and a canibalism."

"Maybe cause I'm tall? It was from above."

He tilts his head back, grimy hair falling out of his face as he squints up at the ceiling. "Dangling Participle. Never did like those."

A faint snort. "Sure."

He lowers his gaze, hair falling back to shroud his face. A look to Eden. "How can you tell?"

"I.. uhm.." the snake girl's tongue flickers out nervously "I have a craving for apples."

"Is it the... thing?" She taps her mouth. "So what? Most church types are assholes."

"No. I... pooka are the most honest creatures on the planet?' hapless whisper

"Yeah, well, everyone lies a little."

He snorts slightly, a barely audible huff of breath through his nose. "That's nothing." His own tongue flicks out, a greyish-looking sickly thing, and flicks a bit of hair from his face before being sucked back into his mouth. "Ann-Marie thinks I walk on water, and mine is grosser than yours." He sounds oddly pleased with this fact.

" A little? ugh"

"Dude, that's gross... daaaaamn."