Chapter 77: A dangerous game *
"Professor," Caius said with a smile and the most casual tone possible.
Lea liked that, judging by her smile and the slight twinkle in her feline-blue eyes.
"Caius," she said, seated in a chair as she gestured at her office at large and asked,
"What do you think? Does it remind you of the Forest?"
Caius looked all about the office and the motif was ’Greenery’. The ground was not hard stone like Arlette and Cynthia’s but was instead covered by a fine carpet of green grass that, by texture, was indistinguishable from the real thing. Caius even wondered if this was real grass she had grown over her floor.
There were tree-trunk decorative structures against the wall that made it look like trees had grown inside the walls. Leaf-covered branches even extended from the top of the decorative trunks and touched the ceiling like they were holding it up.
Speaking of the ceiling, it was painted to look like the Forest sky; Slightly covered by a canopy of branches and only letting a bit of sunlight through.
Even the furniture had Forest-wood designs. I.e more visible wood grains on the chairs and desks and shelves and also more fluffy, grassy upholstery for the cushions.
Taken as a whole, the Office looked as though someone had taken a normal Professor’s office and dropped it in the middle of the Forest. The attention to detail was so incredible that Caius almost worried a Magical Beast was stalking close. This ’worry’ was only furthered by the drawing of glinting eyes added to the wall designs against a dark backdrop.
Caius nodded in response to Lea’s question.
"It does remind me of the Forest," he said gently and then his eyes widened as he teased,