fandomhigh | Coping With Change, Friday, Period 3

If or why anybody was actually insane enough to come to class today was really anyone's best guess. The island was pretty much bending over backwards now in its attempt to kill everybody living on it. There were zombies falling into lava pits and half-monkey-half-pony monsters galloping majestically through ancient ruins with mummies riding on their backs and really, Jonothon had pretty much made up his mind that anyone who showed up for class today was going to just automatically fail the course.

He could be here because he was a walking shell of a corpse with a gout of psifire where his head was meant to be, thank you. And he was making sure students had a safe escort back to the dorms if they were in class today, and therefore stupid.

Ignore the hypocrisy. Just ignore it.

Cecil was here, too. Honestly, if he stayed home every time existence turned deadly or frightening, he'd never leave the house! So here he was, more or less unharmed, if slightly harried. "Do you think anyone will show?"

//If they do, I'm failing the lot of them.//

No, he wasn't.

"But if they're coping well enough to show up, that shows they're learning!" Cecil pointed out.

//… Cecil, remind me to give you a failing grade when things are back to normal.//

He wouldn't.

"You can't give me a grade," Cecil told him, rolling his eyes. "I'm a teacher."

Jonothon sighed.

//Here, if any students show up, ply them with some arts and crafts or cookies or something until I can offer them a proper escort back to the dorms.//

"I can do that!" Cecil agreed. "Art is a wonderful way of coping."

//And if you get any glitter on me,// Jono grumbled, crossing his arms and leaning against the door frame, //I'll be very put-out.//

"Um. Angry, right?" Cecil asked carefully. "Not extinguished?"

//… Just get the bloody glitter, Cecil.//

"Just checking!" Cecil protested. "It's good to be prepared for emergencies."

Jonothon suspected that he and Cecil had wildly different definitions for the word 'emergency.'

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She tilted her head slightly.

"If you say so," Yeul said agreeably. "I did not think it anything to be concerned about. They are acting according to their natures."

//Well... yes, I suppose they are.// Jono really couldn't argue that. //Though I imagine it would cause your classmates a fair amount of distress if they were to find that you'd been eaten by a bear or something.//

Since she didn't seem to be terribly concerned about herself, it seemed worth a try.

"Pain passes," Yeul said simply. "And many would not even realize I was gone. There are worse things than being eaten by a bear."

Yeul was great at self-preservation! Or the opposite of great. Seriously.

//... There's a school rule about being eaten by things,// Jono attempted. //Students are to avoid it at all times.//

He would write it into the bloody rulebook himself, damn it.

"I'd hardly be the first to break it, if I did die," Yeul pointed out lightly, still smiling. "And I have never seen that rule before. Though it is possible I missed it."

//... Just don't get yourself killed,// Jono sighed. //Please. Special request from me to you.//

"I'll try to remember," Yeul said. "Please, do not worry about me."

He was so going to worry, now.

//Where are you headed after class, luv? To the library, to the dorms? I'll give you an escort when you leave the building.//

Because it was kind of his responsibility, and all.

"I am going back to the library," she replied, watching him with steady eyes. "I have been helping there."

Which was... well. Extremely unusual.

"It will be safe for me to walk the halls of school."

//It will be,// Jono agreed, sounding at least a little relieved. //I might stop by there later, to see if anybody needs a safe escort back home. I've been doing it for Hannibal, already.//

He didn't suspect Yeul would ask him to. He'd have to insist, he supposed.

"If you wish," Yeul said, smiling again. "The library belongs to no one. Except, perhaps, itself. Your presence would be welcome."

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