school: caiman

[shaft]

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[shaft]

I don't think it should be a problem.

[ So he'll let Caiman inside and into the common room! There are some snacks on the table, and Claude helps himself to one. ]

Is it similar to yours?

[headsplitter]

Not really! The layout is, the door's not any higher here I guess, but other than that... it's a lot more, uh, flowery here.

[ Befitting of being a Spring Dorm... Also sorry Spring Dorm this intruder is taking some of your food. ]

The temperature is different, too...?

[shaft]

Oh really? [ that's weird? ] Which dorm are you again?

[headsplitter]

Fall. It's got like, pumpkins and stuff and it's red.

[shaft]

That sounds relaxing—for a prison, this place certainly is comfortable.

[ though... ]

Can you fit on your bed?

[headsplitter]

This ain't a prison, it's a school.

[ Beat pause. And then more grumbly. ]

No but guess I'm used to that.

[shaft]

I think school and prison are very much one and the same for a lot of people.

[ the education system... ]

And maybe you should ask your dorm head about that. It seems a little unfair, just because you're taller.

[headsplitter]

[ I dunno Claude, school isn't great in Caiman's world but jail is probably worse. If there even is a jail. ]

It's like, connected though? Wouldn't they gotta replace the whole bed?

[ Thinkies. And yeah he's on the three-person bunkbed side. ]

[shaft]

You don't think your comfort is worth it?

[headsplitter]

You gotta say it like that?! Most of the world just ain't built for giant lizard-headed dudes! Which is why I'm gonna get my head back and go back to being human, anyway!

[shaft]

You mean you grew taller when you got your new head?

belated but NO the girls deserve the queen bed and caiman does not

[headsplitter]

Uh... maybe?! Making things bigger through magic is a thing! Though my current clothes are what were on me when they found me I guess, so maybe I was always big...

that's fair...

[shaft]

Then you're just a regular tall man, who probably deserves a bed that can fit you.

Or maybe you'd be better off on the couch?

[headsplitter]

There's this weird wizard boy with a gun who keeps takin' the couch. He doesn't wanna be anywhere else.

And we've got a weird maybe zombie-hunter who keeps gettin' under the bed?

[ Thinkies. Fall dorm weird. ]

[shaft]

Zombie-hunter...? What's a zombie?

[headsplitter]

It's when a dead person comes back out all hungry for brains. What, you've never had a zombie night?

[shaft]

A dead person...? No, I've never heard of a dead person coming back to life.

[ what he fork???? ]

[headsplitter]

Seriously?! In Hole, we've got a night where all the dead come crawling out and we get vouchers for helping putting them down again for good!

[ AN ENTIRE ZOMBIE NIGHT. EVERY YEAR. ]

[shaft]

...

Sorry the what?

[headsplitter]

Day of the Living Dead!

[ Just assumes which part Claude was 'what'ing for. ]

[shaft]

No wait, the "Hole"?

[headsplitter]

Oh yeah! Hole!

Where I'm from!

[shaft]

It's very... Why is it called that?

[headsplitter]

Uh, I dunno, I didn't name it.

[ Huh! ]

Probably 'cause it's all dirty and downtrodden and stuff. Compared to the Sorcerer's World?

[shaft]

Sorcerer's World? You sound like you come from a rather interesting place.