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Creative Weaponry; Monday, Second Period [08/31].

Instructions should have gone out ~~oh so handwavily~~ to the students to be meeting for their class in the danger shop, which she couldn't imagine would surprise anyone, and, when they got there, they'd find themselves on a long, dusty road winding through a somewhat trecherous looking passage with steep, rocky mountain walls on each side. Before the passage really narrows in, there were four small merchant wagons waiting, each pulled by smoll fat goats.

And Amaya at the opening of that passage, ready to go with her usual eager grin.

"Good morning, everyone," she greeted them brightly with a pump of her fist, "and welcome to your first day of Creative Weaponry. I know it's the start of the week, so you're probably not sick of introductions quite yet, but I noticed an awful lot of familiar names on my roster for this class, and I don't think any of you will be too terribly disappointed if we skipped it for this class and got right to the meat of it. We'll get to know each other pretty well through the course of the class, anyway. The concept is pretty simple, but the situations will not be. Each week, you'll be thrown into a situation where you'll need to get yourself a weapon and fast, but without any of the traditional thing you might think are weapons on hand. You will have other things, though, and the idea is to then make a weapon out of those things, and fight your way out of the mess! They may work; they may not! It's all about thinking quick on your feet, though, and see what works and what doesn't!

"If you have any questions, you'll get a chance to answer them before we get started, but first, I'd like you all to find a partner and pick a wagon. Now, we've got an uneven number, which means one person has to go it alone; if anyone wants to volunteer for going it alone, that's fine, too. But, partner up or stick it alone, pick a wagon, and we'll head on out to see what happens!"

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"All of the important things, anyway," Jules confirmed. "Now there's just a lot of bureaucratic nonsense that I'd really rather not have to deal with, honestly, but it is what it is."

And then she narrowed her eyes and gave Julius a searching look, because she remembered how surprised she'd been to return on Saturday and find it wasn't even September just yet. "Julius," she said slowly. "What month do you think it is?"

"...Uh, I dunno," he admitted. "Did the new semester start in June or July?"

"The last semester started in July," Jules supplied. "But that's been and gone. This is the first day of the fall semester."

"...Whut."

"Tomorrow is September first," she clarified, not without some measure of sympathy. Sorry, Julius, looks like you lost most of your summer to being a dragon!

... Er. Being a tiny dragon.

... Okay, being a tinier dragon.

...Okay but like rude, narrative.

"Oh fuck." Julius had gone from being surprised to looking straight-up stricken.

Not wrong though!

Annnnd now Jules felt super awkward for being the one to break it to him, because wow, he pretty much looked like he'd just been gut-punched, there.

"Sorry?" she offered. "I know it's- a lot to take in, missing that much time."

"No, no, no," he said. "My mom--I had until August."

She was going to eat him. And if she didn't, it was only so she could let Ian do it, for missing whatever important meeting he'd set up that Julius had missed.

Or maybe because she was going to send Chelsea to just take him out and save her the bother of picking him out from between her teeth.

...He had way too many siblings willing to murder him.

“Maybe she’ll-“ Jules broke off, shaking her head. Based on their conversations about family expectations, she would not understand. “Maybe time is moving slower back where you’re from?” she offered instead. “After all, if it could move faster for me...”

She was well aware she was grasping at straws here, but she was kind of desperate.

"You think so?" Julius was just going to grasp at those straws with you Jules ~~also that was my imaginitive plan, shh~~. "That's...that's really a thing?"

“When I left Fennbirn, it was mid-December,” she told him. “So coming back to find we hadn’t even reached the end of August... And apparently I’m not the only one who’s experienced such things. I’m sure it must work the other way around too.”

If there had been a God of Dragons, Julius would have hit the ground in supplication.

"Maybe," he said, slowly. "Hopefully?"

...And maybe he would just, like, spend the next few days hiding and waiting to see if his mother came to eat him.

If she tried, Juillenne would absolutely fight her, for the record.

“Also, you’re enrolled in classes for this semester, so if nothing else, the school administration should have your back if she tries to make you go home,” Jules pointed out. And she meant that on more than just a bureaucratic level; the population of Fandom as a whole was always ready to throw down in general.

Please don't fight his mom, Jules. Especially since family honor kiiiiinda dictated he'd have to fight you, too.

Yes he was aware how stupid that was.

"...I'm pretty sure my brother Bob did that," Julius said. "But maybe...? Bob is her favorite."

If she ate him, the Heartstrikers would look their Clan Seer. And also, he'd know.

Unless he was just crazy, which was entirely possible.

Yeah, that was deeply stupid, Julius.

“So maybe he convinced her to let you have some more time!” she said brightly.

But if he didn't, then whoever took over the clan after Bethesda's would also hunt him down and eat him!

...Look, familial cannibalism was a big part of their culture.

"Maybe?" Julius said, unable to keep himself from glancing up into the sky, a bit nervously.

No reason.

Yeah, Jules couldn’t help but follow his gaze, there. “What are you looking for?”

"...Birds?" he hazarded. "You know. Uh. Belated lizard instincts."

Sure babe.

Mmm, yeah, Jules was just going to side-eye him so hard.

Cam, too. You ever been side-eyed by a mountain cat before, Julius?

...He had not, no. It was a new and moderately unsettling experience, so thanks for that, Camden.

"I was a lizard for a really long time!" he insisted.

That was a weak excuse and you knew it, ~~Heartstriker~~ Quetz.

"I really don't think that's it at all," Jules retorted. She didn't know what it was about, but she knew 'lizard instincts' was bullshit.

Julius contrived to look innocent, his lifetime of trying to look unassuming going up against his complete inability to lie.

"So, uh, what about this class assignment, huh?"

SMOOTH, HEARTSTRIKER. SO SMOOTH.

Sometimes, a facial expression could say a lot. And right now, Juillenne's was saying 'I'm willing to let this go for now, but don't for one second think I'm forgetting about it'.

"So. The green wagon, then?" she asked with a smirk.

And Julius' expression was 'And I'm going to maximize the amount of time we're letting this go for.'

"Green wagon sounds great," he said cheerfully.

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