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Ignatius was actually considering taking a nap, considering how early it was. The level of noise in the bus didn't particularly bother him -- he just wanted some sleep.

He was distracted from this by Piper's voice, though, and Ignatius rubbed his eyes. Maybe he could talk to her! Oh, and that cat riddle boy. Carlos, wasn't it? With a yawn, Ignatius got out of his seat and attempted to move to one a bit closer to Piper and Carlos, which was surprisingly easy considering how many creeple kept moving about the bus instead of staying put.

(Of course, considering how huge some of these creeple were, it was surprising there was much room inside this bus at all. He had the sense that Professor Winter had not expected this many students.)

"Hey Pipes," Ignatius saluted, even if it was a bit sleepier than normal. He'd wake up eventually. To Carlos, he simply said, "Carlos," and gave an upwards head nod of a greeting.

He had heard Carlos recite some kind of riddle on the way over -- Ignatius decided that he hadn't paid enough attention and so let Piper deal with it. She had kinda brought figuring out a riddle on herself, after all. In the meantime, he glanced around and waved in the air at Brenley, who appeared to be talking to a ghoul and glancing in their direction.

When someone shouted hello back at her, she shouted, "HI!" right back, like an awkward skellyphone call where neither party could tell if the other could actually hear them.

Perhaps it was also like a grating of nails on a chalkboard, considering how sleepy some of those on the bus were -- and Ebele was clearly not. She didn't care if anyone else was trying to rest, either, if it even registered to her. (It probably didn't.)

Generally oblivious to boundaries or expected behaviour or anything like that, she plunked herself right down next to the monsters playing a game, including the one that had just shouted at her, and asked in a stage whisper, "Is it a monster?"

Ebele loved games, especially ones she could win. And she could win I Spy! If one spied the most things they won, right?!

"You're welcome, Anika and Jho." The silver hair Knob beamed. "You two look new, freshmen?" AJ who overheard their conversation chuckled lightly, the tail head didn't even have hands snapped everything with its muzzle. The subject that he was thinking interrupted with a kid voice, "New friendssssss?" Its fork tongue flickered rapidly for the delight.

The Amphisbaena adjusted himself to a more comfortable pose and nodded at the mask Jho was wearing. "Is it for aesthetic purpose or something else? I'm in second year, so if you want a mini tour of the campus, feel free to find me in the monster dorm. I also baked a lot and shared with friends, if you're interested in helping me for taste testing, it would be great."

He then turned to look at Anika, "I'm curious which fraction you're, you look like human without beast-like extremities. Like me, I've horns and scales or like Jho, his tail is impressive." Smiling, the boil brushed his hair backward to reveal the scales on his forehead, hidden by the long bangs.

Sorry? Why was she sorry? The apology was quickly forgotten, however. Instead, Sibyl clapped her hands together under her chin. "Thank you! You're super pretty, too! Your eyes are like rubies!" And everyone knew shinies were the best. The best.

Oh no! Why was she hiding her face? This ghoul seemed really shy. Well, guess that just meant Sibyl would have to work that much harder to bring her out of her shell, just like she did with Gabby. She was the right ghoul for the task. She waited patiently, at least until she caught sight of tears. No! Nonono! Why was she crying?!

She looked to Gabby for an answer, and thankfully he was quick to not only do that but to introduce them as well. Sibyl smiled again, turning to Shine once more. "Shine's a pretty name, too!" And then she threw herself at Shine for a biiiiiig hug, rubbing her cheek against the other ghoul's.

While he had been discussing the trip with another student, a familiar voice popped up above the others. Perhaps it was his own fault for honing in on it, but he had recognized it as soon as certain phrases were spoken. Sitting more upright, his eyes gazed over the heads of the students; hair, horns, thorns, feathers, and there it was.

AJ.

It had been a long time since he had actually encountered the student - the date night auction, if he recalled correctly while he was spending time with their mutual friend. He still found the monster's behavior odd whenever the three of them were together. He didn't find his behavior justified or reasonable, but he probably had his own reasons and justifications. The demon wasn't in a position to judge that himself. Regardless, it had been a long time since then. He had a good boil, he had just graduated, recently moved from the dorms into his own place, moving on and adjusting.

Well, considering that the third member of their instigation of altercation wasn't present on this trip... maybe - just maybe - they can actually be civil.

Uru huffed.



Settling back down into his seat, Uru turned back to the ghoul beside him. "Forgive me, my name is Uru. I hadn't caught yours, so I offer mine in turn."

Sidron glanced over his shoulder at the newcomer who had popped herself into their conversation. A slight side eye at her quietness. But his wings twitched as Sucre got awfully loud. Right in his ear.

Closing his orange eyes for a moment he thought. Starts with an 'M'. Not a monster but a is on a monster. "A mouth.." Yea, that was the right answer. He was totally sure of it.

Wait, it wasn't a monster?! How disappointing!

No problem, she would win! It couldn't be mouth or meat right?! She had to do better than both of them because both boils were obviously wrong, she just knew it!

"A man?" Ebele pressed, louder this time because everyone else was loud and she would be the loudest. "Muscles?! A muscley manmonster?! Ooh, ooh, a monocle?!"

She was notably not actually looking around, which was the entire point of the game.

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Circe couldn't help but return the boils grin. "Yes, the school has a track record for nearly killing students in pretty much everything." She laughed in agreement. How many school trips had almost killed her? Every. Single. One. This one would be better. . . hopefully. Circe of course had noticed when the boil she had been talking to seemed to be distracted by something that had made him rise up out of his seat. Curiosity was going to kill her one of these days but she wondered what had caused him to have such a reaction. When his attention was once more directed towards her she lifted a shoulder in a half shrug to show she didn't mind. "Nice to meet you Uru. I'm Circe." She held out a hand excitedly. "Was something wrong?" She finally caved in asking the boil, motioning with her hand in the general direction he had looked.

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Did he just smile? Hayes gave the boil a piercing glare over the seat. He probably didn't look as scary as he wanted but he hoped the effect was enough to make the boil reconsider the grin that graced his face. Then came the tongue. THE FREAKING TONGUE! It was insult after insult. Once more the boil was unable to make a comeback because other creeple on the bus decided that playing a game would be a good idea. A game? He thought he knew of it and from how they made it sound, it seemed pretty easy. If he won maybe this would be a good comeback! The others seemed to be so out of their league. "Mole." Clearly, he was going to win.