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The small ghoul smiled at the other as she took a seat next to her. In response to her question the Jiang Shi nodded rapidly a couple of times. Grasping onto the sides of her seat, pulling her knees up just a bit so that the tips of her toes were the only thing touching the floor. "I hope so. I've heard lots of stories from my parents about their trips and such. I've always wanted to travel and have adventures like they do but they would tell me I was too young at the time."

Leaning back in her chair, she pulled her knees all the way up so that she could wrap her arms around her knees. "Maybe this class will help me prepare for when I am able to go out and do my own real traveling to far off places." Mei let off a whimsical sigh before turning her dark brown eyes back to the Baku next to her. "What made you decide to sign up?"

It was a welcome distraction, although somewhat unexpected as Astra suddenly had a pair of legs in her lap, ones with razor sharp claws on the end. Her eyes widened, then she looked around for the owner, and her surprise broke into a grin.

"Mandy!" She said happily, and if she hadn't been anchored down, she may have jumped out of her seat for a hug. "I haven't seen you in ages!" The last time she had seen the drop bear was when they had the trails, so it was good to see she was here. "Are you here for all the exploring we're gonna do? How have you been? Have you been well? What have you been doing?"

She had decided to barrage the ghoul with a ton of questions, for when you have a sob fest with a near naked someone, you could assume they wouldn't mind you asking 20 questions.

"Keeping out of trouble is always a good thing." Astra replied, although her smile soon turned mischievous. "But then, it's a a lot more fun if you don't." She sighed, thinking about what she hadn't been doing lately, which was playing pranks. But there was no one good to prank!

Well, except Titus, she'll have to come up with something dastardly later.

"Oh, your ghoulfriend?" the fae said brightly. "Thats great! It's always fun to spend time with your...umm...special someone..." She then looked away, a slight blush appearing on her cheeks, before she looked back. Mandy seemed to shift around before asking her another question. "Oh, yes, I've been..." She had to pause. Had she been okay? The truthful answer was 'no', but she had managed to cheery up considerably in the past few weeks.

"I was having some problems, but now I'm all good" She finally answered.

[I'll be away for the next 16 hours due to sleep+school ;; So sorry for the short post + lack of replied!]

Although Lizzy wasn't very big on adventures, she did like the idea of traveling, moving around to see new sights, experience new things... Well, that is adventuring too, in its own way. It just wasn't something one would normally think of where 'adventure' was concerned. Either way, she made her way into the room, settling down in a random seat.

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Thanatos was there with a packet of popcorn, and Biskoto wound around his shoulder. Don't question the popcorn.

"I'm sure everyone gets nervous their first time traveling to someplace new. But if you are well informed about where you are going you shouldn't have any troubles. Hopefully." Mei tried to have a positive attitude towards everything. Though deep down inside she agreed with the other ghoul. Traveling made her a little nervous as well.

"I like to think of it like this. When you get on a skele-coaster at the amusement park, at first you are all nervous but after a few climbs and loopti-loops you start giggling and having a really good time." She adjusted her legs on the chair briefly as she spoke. Hoping to get her point across the best she could. After trying to explain things to Eisheth the ghoul didn't have a lot of confidence in getting her point across every now and again. "Its kinda like that with traveling. Nervous at first then you are having fun the next once you realize things are ok."

Reaching out, she took Xiu's hand and shook it with a smile. "Pleasure to meet you, Xiu. I'm Meixiang, though most usually just call me Mei."

The bell rang, a shocking clamour to those unfortunate enough to be sitting under it. At the desk, the eagle startled as the skull jumped and clattered, babbling incoherently, "It was Miss Scartissue! In the lavatory! With a flying buttress! Wait no I changed my mind it was...oh." The skull paused, stared out at the students and clicked it's teeth loudly. "Why hello there!" There was a sense of the skull's non-existant eyes shifting back and forth as it studied the class. "I am Professor Beau Nez Brittel, and I welcome you to Geography! History! Anthropology! Current Events! Sports! Science! All these subjects and more will be touched on here, in World Explorations!"

The eagle shrieked loudly and stretched its wings impressively.

Professor Brittel continued, "It's very exciting isn't it? I would apologize for my two year absence, except I had so much fun that I'm not at all sorry! Why last week I was playing tag with harpies on a pirate ship full of cursed copper stolen from human world pumbing! Copper is quite popular you know, I'm not sure whym but I think it might involve poop! Or possibly the dramatic change in colouration when exposed to both time and elements! Did you know that copper is also human slang for their version of Boogeymen? This is because they often fill socks with copper pennies in order to gently beat first time offenders and hippies. Hippies are a breed of human known for their flower powers, luxuriant fur, and rainbow skin. To summon one, you must first sacrifice a Woodstock and curse The Man, then you must burn some herbal tea in honour of the Great Dead! Now isn't that interesting? I plan to try it on my next trip, as flower power sounds quite lovely and impressive. Perhaps they bear some similiarity to dryads, who I find to be very good company and smell nice to boot!"

The eagle pooped on the skull.

"Oh...oh my what, oh dear, and I just got a nice polishing this morning!" The skull snapped its teeth shut and then began to chuckle, a dry rasping sound full of rattles and clicks, "Well, I guess not all surprises are pleasant! But that's enough about me and my adventures for today. For this class, I want each of you to come up to the podium, one at a time, and tell us about the world and your experiences in it. It can be an old story or a recent adventure. You can tell us about something you just discovered, or show us something interesting you've found. I ask that everyone remain quiet for this, and we'll have free talk afterward if you want to comment or ask eachother questions."

Hearing Mandy offer her continual support made Astra feel all the more merrier, as she now had a new allay for whom she could depend upon, and that made her all the more happier. "Thankyou Mandy" She said, beaming at the drop bear. "And...my door is always open as well." Although she didn't think she would be of much use, she still made the offer.

The fae then went from beaming to rather embarrassed, looking the other way as Many was intent on making her spill the beans. She squirmed, wanting to get away but realizing that the drop bears legs were preventing her from escaping.

"Umm...it was n-nothing! Just a friend...I have..." Her voice dropped away as the skull began talking. Ahh! her savior! "sshhh I might tell you later" she whispered, intending to conveniently forget and disappear instead.

Listening to the teacher, she soon realized they had to talk about their own adventures. Which was all well in good, but Astra wasn't sure what kind of adventure she oculd talk about. When it came for her turn, she walked up to the podium, and faced the class.

"Ahh...hello...My name is Astra..." she started, feeling a little self conscious now that she was in front of the class. "Ummm...I suppose a place I've been is the dark woods around my home...well actually, it would be more accurate to say I live in the dark woods. They're reeeeaaaaly big, and span for miles on end. Not many people visit them because they get lost easily. There are few charms and hexes that are placed in the forest which makes it all the more confusing for people trying to find a pathway, and some of the hexes even make the forest loop in on itself, so there's no way to get out. Well, except dissipation..." "She laughed nervously, then continued on.

"I live in a tree house that's sheltered by this really big tree with a scary looking face, but sometimes it makes funny faces too. A lot of the trees have faces on them, and some can even talk. There's also other things in there too. Like other faeries, sprites, dark elves, ghosts, fauns, swamp monsters, and stuff like that. And sometimes we have really big festivals in the forest too. Those are lots of fun. And they have great food too; centipede stew, beetle buns, cockroach tarts, those are really nice by the way." She nodded to herself, wishing she could get herself some for lunch. "And if we're really lucky, we sometimes get stories told by the elders. They know some really cool ones, like this story about a really powerful fairy that fought against this other powerful person. But yeah, that's the end of my story."

With her story told, she quickly sat down again.