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Started September 17, 2019 by @saor_illust school

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"I… uh, I will," Emrys said, raising her hand. "Just… don't make me regret this too much. Please." Emrys got to her feet and stood next to the bed. She regretted saying anything, but she was also very curious.

Loren raised an eyebrow. "You're sure about that?" She lay back down on the bed, but turned her head so she could see Emrys and the newbie.

Zuri thought a little about what she wanted to do for a second and then started humming. A confused look passed over Emrys's face for only a second until her body visibly relaxed and her eyes unfocused. Then she started singing for real.
"There's a bright side… to every wrong thing if you're looking at me through the right eyes… Darkness in my name don't you want to play a game on the cool side? Don't be so shy."
Emrys started swaying to the rhythm and turned to Zuri's bed. Them she started unpacking Zuri's stuff. Zuri decided not to go full stunt mode and just has her do a simple yet nice task for her. She continued singing.
"There's a pleasure… in hiding from the sun, no I was never one for pretty weather… I'd rather be a creep, baby follow me into the water… I'll take you to the darker…"
Emrys paused as the song paused, but continued with the chorus even stronger than before.
"This could be perfection… a venom dripping in your mouth. Singing like a siren… love me while your wrists are bound. You'll be seeing me in your dream… I'll be there when your reality drowns…"
Emrys all the sudden snaps out of it and gasps.

(Song: Siren by Kailee Morgue)

"Well." Emrys shook her head and glanced at Zuri's bed. "That was interesting." She pushed her glasses up her nose and shook her head again. "Promise me you won't do that without my permission?"

"Well then," Loren commented dryly. She already didn't trust this new roommate. How could she trust that Zuri wouldn't do that to her? She looked at Zuri suspiciously and gave her a look, as if it say, If you do that to me, you'll do more than regret it.

Zuri solemnly raised her right hand as to swear an oath.
“I swear not to influence either of you without your direct permission except under extreme and life threatening situations,” Zuri says with a straight face.
She really is serious. While it can be fun to mess with people, she knows her gift is quite disorienting and not something to be messed with.
Then she sees Loren’s glare and gives her own make me look

"Okay, good," Emrys said, glancing sharply at Zuri. It looked like she was serious, so Emrys relaxed slightly. "Uh… is your first class math? I heard something that roommates had classes together, and that's what Loren and I have first."

“Oh! I haven’t looked at my schedule.”
She whips out her phone from her back pocket and pulls on her schedule online.
“Yup, math first.”

"Nice." Emrys nodded. "Are you any good at math? Cause if you aren't, I… could help you. If you want." Emrys grimaced slightly- now it just sounded like she was boasting. "Nevermind."

“I’m good enough to get through class. Thanks though,” Zuri says, taking up where Emrys left off on her unpacking job.
She knew she sounded kind of rude but she didn’t want anyone helping her and it was a strange first offer.

"…okay," she says doubtfully in return to Zuri's oath. She made a mental note to herself to be careful of Zuri. "Well then, it looks like us three are going to be stuck together all year!" she said in the cheeriest voice she can muster, only half-joking and a forced smile on her face. Besides, keep your friends close and your enemies closer, right?

"Okay. Yep." Emrys nodded and sat back down on the bed, facing towards the window. She was already making strange impressions on everyone. Fantastic. "So… Do any of you know when classes start? I couldn't figure out if there was something happening today or not."

Ava took out her own phone and looked at her schedule. "Uh… yeah the first class starts in…" she trailed off and looked up suddenly. "Oh crap guys the next class starts in five minutes!" She grabbed the backpack out of her suitcase and slung it over her shoulder, and still carrying her phone in one hand she rushed out of the room, glancing down every now and then at the map she had pulled up of the school trying to find the classroom. But once she got out of the room, she just stood there, turning her phone every which way trying to make sense of it so that she could actually figure out which direction she should go.

"Wait, what?" Emrys grabbed her backpack from beside her bed and runs into the hallway, where Loren is standing, looking confused. "I scouted it out beforehand. I'm paranoid. This way." Emrys grabbed Loren's arm and pulled her down the hallway. "Hey, Zuri, you probably want to follow us!"

Loren looked up suddenly to see Emrys guiding her down the hallway. "Oh, uh, thanks Emrys!" she didn't need her to pull her with her anymore, she started running too.

Emrys ran down the hallway and out of the building. The person at reception yelled after them, something about no running, but she ignored them. The building where their math class is was located quite close to the dorms, which was a small piece of luck. "It's that one," Emrys said, pointing at a one-story building made out of brick. "Room 3."

"Oh phew," Loren gave a sigh of relief. "Thanks again, Emrys." She walked into the class only to stop short. "Hey guys, why is the teacher black? I don't mean to sound racist, but the teacher is, um, literally black." The teacher was enveloped in dark shadows that moved around him and never stilled, but strayed too far from the teacher's body.

Zuri has followed them kind of frantically just hoping she had her math stuff in her bag.
“Hmm… maybe magic?” Zuri said sarcastically after looking at the teacher herself and after Loren’s remark.
“Probably death or dark magic,” she then notes more seriously.

"Well, looks like math will be more magical than I thought it was going to be. At least, the teacher will be." Emrys commented. "That is a cool look, though."

"Yeah, I guess? Is this usual for the teacher?" Loren asked, curious. She took an empty seat, a little nervous.

“I hope it is. Also, since I haven’t really looked at the schedule, what’s the rest of our classes?”
Zuri asks. Zuri loves life science, magic, and marine biology, so she hopes the has at least one of those classes.

"Mm, I'm not sure, I'll check," she pulls out her phone and looks at the schedule. Ooh, science next. She looked up. "Science next."

"Have a seat students," the teacher boomed. But it wasn't really the teacher. It was Him. He needed something from this school to get out of his prison. Sure, it didn't seem like a prison, but every time he turned, there was yet another thing he couldn't do. He was trapped in an alternate dimension, but nobody lived there, only puppets. The crystal, he needed. And the shadows, were merely his puppets. "Let's learn about… gems! There are lots of interesting mathematical things about them…" Well, he didn't know that, for all he knew it probably wasn't true. But he had to act "normal", whatever that was before asking them about the one he wanted.

"Oh, this is going to be great." Emrys groaned, slumping into a seat at the back of the room. "This teacher is going to be one of those teachers that just talks about their life stories instead of actually doing things related to the class." Emrys scoffed. "I mean, what are we going to do with crystals?" Her eyes widen. "Oh, we'd better not be finding the surface area. If that's what we're doing, I'm going to kill someone."

He released his control on the teacher's speech and let him talk mathematical stuff. "Why yes, we're going to be learning that, and more, such as volume of various gems!" he strode over to the board and started writing some math-y stuff.

Loren groaned. Well this was just great. A teacher who flitted between topics.

"Volume?" Emrys looked at Loren and groaned. "That's almost worse. Let me tell you, if I had a knife right now…" She trailed off, letting the murderous look in her eyes do the talking for her. "Anyways." She pushed her glasses up her nose and pulled a notebook out of her backpack.