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Creature Languages, 1/12, Period 3

A fishbowl-sized terrarium has been placed on Dream's desk, and students who look closely may notice a small brown arachnid within it, crouched between two rocks.

"Hello.

I have decided to start the term with a discussion with a creature who many of you might be wary of, a Brown Recluse Spider. Like all spiders, brown recluses are arachnids, not insects. This means they have only two body segments instead of three; a fused head and thorax (called a cephalothorax or prosoma) and an abdomen (called the opisthosoma), supported by an exoskeleton composed mainly of chitin.

Spiders also have eight legs (insects have six), no antennae, and their eyes are single lenses rather than compound eyes. Additionally spiders have pedipalps (or just palps), at the base of which are coxae or maxillae next to their mouth that aid in masticating food; the ends of the palp are modified in adult males into elaborate and often species specific structures used for mating.

In short? Do not refer to our guest, who you may call Aunt Nancy, as a "bug."

And do not fear her. Brown recluses bite only when disturbed, and she is bold for her breed. No harm will come to you from her."

As he speaks, Dream reaches into the terrarium and draws out the small brown spider. She crouches on his palm, then waves a foreleg.

//Hey there, children.//

"She is greeting you. I will interpret for the duration of class, but I believe you will pick up on her cues soon enough."

"As always, I am in my office after class."

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Victor waves hi.

Blair grins and waves back. "Hey, man. How's things going?"

"They're...okay, I guess. Hey...exactly how when did you leave the bonfire a couple of nights ago?" he whispered.

"I left early" Blair whispered back. "It was really cold and turns out I was coming down with the flu."

"Why? Anything interesting happen after I left?"

Walter plopped down behind Blair and grinned slightly. "That depends, I guess."

Blair turned around. "Hey Walter! Depends on what? What happened?"

Instead of answering Blair, Walter looked over at Victor and grinned a little more broadly.

"We found out that Wonka's fizzy root beer has interesting side effects if you're green. And Togusa got hacked by his boss for taking his Tachikoma to the beach. I hear that it attended all his classes for him yesterday."

Blair watched Walter smile at Victor.

"Really? Root beer? Did it make you sick or something, Victor?" Blair frowned. "That's so not fair, what did he expect, for Togusa just not to come?"

Victor blushed so hard you could see his skin actually turn pink. "I...well...I went to the doctor today, and it turns out that it makes me drunk."

He glared at Walter, but in a playful way.

Walter gave the glare his best not-innocent innocent look before grinning slyly. "I still think you're lucky."

"Whattya mean I'm lucky?"

[ooc: break time! 30 more minutes till early release!]

"Well, I have identification that says I'm 75 years old, but I don't know if I want to convince the guy who runs the bar that he should give me a beer because of it. You can order a root beer and you're set."

Victor blushed again. "Well, I wouldn't call that lucky. I mean, look what happened last time I got drunk."

He remembered the taste of Walter's tongue, and felt his cheeks get hotter and his pants get...tighter...

Walter glanced down at his desk and smirked. "Next time, just go slower."

Glancing up, he pulled a face, "With the root beer."

Victor looked down and cleared his throat. "Um..sure..." he said.

He looked around and noticed that class was over. "I better go. I have gym now." He said quickly. He took off his jacket and gave Walter a smirk before rushing off, holding his jacket in front of him.

Walter let Victor field the question about the root beer's effects and shrugged to Blair's other question. "I think the Tachikoma's only supposed to be for Driver's Ed. So he got in trouble for joyriding."

"Could you tell him I'm sorry, Walter?" Victor said. "I didn't mean for him to get into trouble."

[ooc: off for two hours, probably. we're doing more hands on stuff in A+, so i gotta go fix computers.]

"I don't think you need to apologize, Victor. It was my idea to ask him for a ride, and his idea to bring the Tachikoma to the beach to start with."

Blair grumbled about 'the man' under his breath. "That sucks, man."

"Drunk? Root beer? Wow." Blair hid a smile. "That's really...odd. So what did you do when you were drunk? Sing songs, fall down a lot?"

"Yeah, I had to unplug him from the Tachikoma." Walter made a face. It was not something he wanted to repeat. "Togusa has plugs in his head."

Blair looked at Walter incredously. "Plugs in his head? Wow, do you think that hurts? Man, do you ever feel like you're one of the last plain old humans around?"

"He doesn't act like it hurts, but..." Walter pulled a face. "It's just..." Wrong? Unnatural? Gross? Not judgments Walter was in a good position to throw out, so he dropped it.

As far as plain old humans went... Walter grinned and flicked out a wire, plucking Blair's pen off of his desk and into Walter's hand.

"You might be one of the only plain old humans around here, my friend."

Blair watched in shock at the wire trick. "Dude. Whoa. Man." Blair grinned and held out his hand for the pen. "Yeah, that rocks! Those don't hurt do they? What else can you do...or is that rude to ask?"

"No, it's okay." Walter handed the pen back to Blair without a scratch on it.

"Nothing as interesting as our friend Victor. I'm just nimble." Walter grinned. "Yeah, that's the word - nimble."

Blair grinned and looked at the pen carefully. "Nimble is cool, man. Were you born with them or did they...grow or something?"

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