"Ah Emrys, don't just go threatening the teachers, they might throw you out of school or something, I don't know. I don't know about you, but I'd rather not get in trouble with the staff in the first place…" Loren warned.
(Don't worry, such a thing won't get her thrown out, just Loren thinking.)
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"Eh," Emrys said, waving a hand vaguely. "I'll be fine. Besides, I don't think he can hear me anyways." She pulls a pencil from her backpack and starts twirling it between her fingers.
"Eh," Emrys said, waving a hand vaguely. "I'll be fine. Besides, I don't think he can hear me anyways." She pulls a pencil from her backpack and starts twirling it between her fingers.
She raised an eyebrow. "If you say so…"
This is the kind of stuff that makes me want to share my talents, Zuri thinks smugly.
She wants to be doing something actually useful to her career, and finding the volume of crystals is not one of them.
“You know, I only promised I wouldn’t entrance you two… singing to get out of homework isn’t bad at all,” Zuri whispers over to the girls.
"Wait, seriously?" Emrys looked over at Zuri. "You could get us out of homework?" She grinned widely. "Honestly, if you can, that's the coolest thing ever."
Stuff like this always revealed her so-called "bad girl side". Loren smiled a mischevious smile and looked at Zuri. "Ooo that sounds awesome!"
“If we get out of homework, ya’ll just tell me the song and we can have a concert.”
Zuri scribbled down some of the last notes. It’s only halfway through the class.
UGH
"Cool." Emrys grinned and wrote down a few problems. She was good-ish at math, but finding the volume of crystals with zero reminders on volume was… difficult, to say the least. "Are any of you having any progress with these? They're kinda impossible. And just a bit advanced for the first day." Emrys whispered to the other girls. "I hate this teacher already."
"Yeah," Loren agreed.
He took control again, and told the students, "Okay now have any of you heard of the AshStar? It's an ashy-colored crystal that's found only the the northern mountains of Greenland."
Suspicious much? Zuri thinks.
Zuri raises her hand, and when the teacher calls on her expecting the answer to what He wants, she says, “No, but I was wondering… What kind of magic do you have? What’s your ability?”
The teacher turned around, and He released his control. "Controlling shadows," he answered in a pleasant voice, manipulating the shadows around him to take his shape, and releasing them after a bit.
"Huh, that's cool," Emrys said. "But, sir, I want to ask you a question. Why in the world are we finding the volume of crystals, and being asked about crystals in Greenland, when this is the first day here? Shouldn't you, you know, actually teach us about it first?" She asked, shrugging.
Nothing menacing about a little shadows, she thought.
Doesn't stop me from being suspicious.
“Or, maybe you could tell us about yourself. You know, get to know the teacher style?” Zuri asks, not bothering to raise her hand.
The teacher ignored their questions, and went on. "The AshStar is one of the largest crystals in the world. We'll be learning how to find the volume of various objects "this year and more. And over the course of the year, we'll be attempting to teach you the basics of geometry, and even touch on quadratics a bit.
“Rude,” Zuri muttered.
When am I going to need to use geometry in my life? “That coral is cylindrical. That dolphin has a large volume.” Yeah, right.
Zuri slid forward in her seat and crossed her arms.
I don’t even know what quadratics is.
"Right, of course. But shouldn't we start with, I don't know, a pyramid, or a cylinder, or even a box before we do that?" Emrys gestured at the board. "Come on, start with the basics! I'm rusty, and I'm pretty sure everyone else here is too."
The teacher crossed his arms. "Raise hands to comment, please."
Zuri raises her hand. The teacher hesitates, but calls on her.
“Shouldn’t we start with, I don’t know, a pyramid, or a cylinder, or even a box before we do *that?”
Zuri gestures at the formulas up on the board.
“Come on, start with the basics! I’m rusty, and I’m pretty sure everyone else here is too,” Zuri says in a very serious tone like she didn’t just repeat everything Emrys said.
The teacher narrows his eyes. "Alright, homework! I'm passing around a sheet of paper, this is your homework! Do not lose it, I want you to turn it in tomorrow, so make sure your names are on it!" He passes paper around. It has basic math problems on it, not hard.
"Raise your hands…" Emrys scoffs. "As if he didn't just try and ask us to find the volume of irregular shapes." She snatches the paper from his hand and looks it over. It wasn't hard, thankfully. "Oh, looks like he listened to me." She glanced over at Zuri and gave her a big smile. "That, my friend, was awesome."
Iris scanned the paper ruefully, but her mood brightened when she saw how easy it was. "Zuri! That was so amazing! Thanks!"
Zuri was also relieved at how easy it was.
“I literally just repeated what you said. It wasn’t that amazing.”
She smirks
“It also looks like the concert is cancelled for now. No need to waste such good music for simple homework.”
"Yes, but you did it so perfectly!" Emrys exclaimed. "I loved it." She flipped the pencil in her hand a few times, then scribbled her name at the top of the paper in a messy, half-cursive script. "Maybe you'll get to use your talents for the next class."
"Yeah!" Iris exclaimed.
(Also if anyone wants to pick the next class that's fine too)