18th Howl: After School Numbers Club, Summer School Edition [Action | Open]

[professorwolf]

Summer school got out earlier than school during the year proper, so Lyall had his classroom open from one until five in the afternoon, in case any students wanted to come by. There were a few games and a few decks of cards, and plenty of snacks, most of which he browsed on while he worked.

Lyall himself had some finishing up to do, as this was the last week of summer session, and he was leaving the week after anyway, so he needed to get everything graded and turned in early. So he was busy, but always ready to take a break if someone wanted or needed to chat.

Up to and including fellow teachers, one of which came by halfway through the afternoon acting very strangely....


((I'll have one thread for the oddly-acting teacher, that a couple people can join in with if they want to! this is plotty stuff :) otherwise, feel free make new threads if you wanna come visit!))

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[scramasax]

"Oh."

Anthony had recalled that Mr. Locke had been one of them, from the first recording indicating that that very "popular" chemistry teacher had connected, and had seen his return message - this was a bit of a respectable reminder of presence.

Quicker if still light-treading in carrying on, "Though they didn't have to do anything -- right?"

[professorwolf]

"No, thankfully. The door held, and the window, too." Given he'd spent most of the night in pain and hobbling around uselessly while he howled and growled and generally made a wolfy fuss, that was really about what he'd expected. "But having them there made me feel a bit better about it in case I had gotten out."

[scramasax]

"I-I'm guessing Mr. Locke's -- not..." He froze up on it occurring to him to be somewhat mortified with himself for implicitly asking this - but it was an inevitable curiosity about any one of them from whom he hadn't seen it for himself. Considered backpedaling - no reason to guess or not guess anything, but it'd do even less to ask as if he was assuming that anything should be on the fact that he would have been there with the man with superhuman strength and the shape of a bug to watch over a werewolf...

"...That Mr. Locke's still - human," he tried - and flinched a little, that was a little uncouth on yet another hand, but hopefully the intention was understood.

[professorwolf]

"As far as I know, yes." Really, Lyall didn't find it that strange of a question. After all, they were all changing a little, and with him and Hajime both being a little "different", well, it was a reasonable guess. "But he insisted, and I'm not really any stronger when I'm like that, so as long as he can avoid getting bitten if I get out...." He shrugged helplessly. "More hands to guard the windows and doors is probably for the best."

That topic, though, seemed talked out, and he had something else-- possibly more important-- to ask. "I heard from Dr. Strider that you weren't actually staying with him."

[scramasax]

Had the subject not been talked through Anthony half-knew he wouldn't have been able to keep feeding it - inevitably shut off, leaving room for the sense of Am I in trouble? to rise up again, set in, and with that strike him frozen cold.

He tried holding eye contact - glanced aside after a blink, then back, and eyes fell down in giving-in, in two seconds' span. Anxious shake of his head " -- I... wasn't," he said, and stopped there, swallowed an "I'm sorry" that he hadn't meant until he'd gotten caught and was now prepared to be plainly disgusted by that fact, too.

He wasn't in any position to have anything to say for himself unless asked, he knew - that might be some better apology.