Chapter 121: Really, Bitch?
The first hour of the class passed with learning more about the Wind-puffing Rabbits and it was time to pair up as the rest of the period apparently required more active participation from the students.
Lea put her hand into one of her pouches and retrieved eight familiar discs that she tossed into the air. They fell at precise locations and exact distances from each other, releasing Magical energy as one to create a netted Dome.
"Don’t want these little dears getting away," she said and then began to pull out Cage after Cage of Wind-puffing Rabbits, enough for the whole class if they divided into pairs.
Speaking of which, she chose the pairs herself. Sort of.
There were instances—like when Delia pulled Eloise away from Caius’s side to signal she would be her partner—that Lea Gilligan allowed pairings she didn’t choose to stand.
Other times, she looked at how close some students stood together and picked them. This may have been the case for Kaya and Aylin whom she paired up.
The two ladies remained within a foot or two of each other ever since they had cooed over a rabbit together, sparing each other very intense glances and even actually having a staring contest at one point. A staring contest they both ended when they, quite uncannily, looked away from each other at the same time.
Really, it could have been how close they stood together that Lea had grouped them. Or it could have also been the tension they continued to give off and she just wanted to see them blow up. Caius didn’t put that past the wild-eyed Professor whom he knew would likely welcome the chaos that would ensue and even let it play out a bit before she stepped in to break it up.
Funny thing was though, neither Kaya nor Aylin protested to being paired up. If anything, they smirked like they had just been waiting to get each other alone.
Caius let out a sigh and then received his partner; Doran Langston.
Doran gave Caius a few uncertain smiles and raised a hand for a timid wave.
"Hey," he said, "I’ll try not to be a bother."