"The things that people keep talking about happening here -- things like the zombies from that one class exercise, and the students turning into pets, and the dragons."

Beauty bit at her lip as she tried to think how to explain what she wanted to know. "People keep telling me that 'things' happen here, as though it's something I should be warned about. And yet it doesn't seem like a dangerous kind of place, and people seem pretty happy to be here. So I was just wondering how much of that was the kind of thing you tell someone who's new, to tease them, and how much is really a warning that should be taken seriously?"