Teacher's Shadow

The class has not started, due to obvious reasons. One there was no students coming yet, Manya had come a tad bit early before the actual time students would flood the seats with the intention of learning something or kill time. Obviously the latter was not tolerated in an academy as prestigous as Eldritch. Merlissa was not one to slack on the rules, so she appreciated Manya's early arrival.

One of the Serpentes, Merlissa noted as she preened a small mouse inside an mouse sized enclosure. Numerous stone statues, still as well a statue, surround the classroom of messily set tables and chairs. However the mess seems organized, as if intentionally set to be messy. Almost like a maze one could say. Luckily for Manya, she did not bump into a single one as she slithered forward. Merlissa was told beforehand she would be having a special case. Never did she expect a masked Serpentes with the documents for Teacher-In-Training. However it was not her who took the documents, but a stone golem.

"Hm... shadow... I say not. You'll be directly involved," Merlissa smiled as she hopped out of her pool and sat upon a table with a wet towel on top. "You'll see why soon, if the documents are anything to say by you were quite the Magical Beasts student. Wasted teaching experience if you ask me if you were to haunt me and the class. No. I'm making you part of it." Merlissa claps and a stone statue comes alive, gracefully avoiding the chairs and tables before picking Manya up gently, bringing her over to Merlissa and setting the lamia down.

"Throughout the class are my golems. They should be immune to your circumstances so feel free to lose the mask around me and them should you feel it too stuffy. You can probably sense them as they move, I know how you Serpentes can see without eyes," Merlissa picks up the small mouse and taps Manya on the shoulder. "Now hands out, and tell me, what creature do you hold in your hand?" Perhaps it would look like an ordinary mouse, however the Earrit gives itself away as it opens up its ears, large sonar dish like ears try to capture even the faintest of sounds, and make chriping noises towards Manya as if doing echolocation.

"An Earrit indeed," Merlissa smiled. What she did not tell Manya was that the class had already sat down with instructions to be incredibly quiet and still. And last thing you want to do is cross a golem, yet alone Merlissa. "Let me see if you can remember your revision, what makes the Earrit so special among similar species such as the common mouse or rat?" Merlissa picks up the Earrit again, who folds its ears back. A creature like this, blind used sonar like ears to navigate back to Merlissa. It kept making chirps, using it to identify Merlissa's body. Merlissa glances at the class with a coy smile, a finger over her lip as to remind the class to remain quiet. If anything, Merlissa believed Manya to be a bit too engrossed in the explanation of such an interesting mouse like creature and its many ways of using their ears to navigate the world.