The classroom appears to be empty as the first students start to trickle in. It's cozily smallish, although still about twice as big as strictly necessary for this class size.
The teacher's desk, a sturdy wooden edifice looming at the head of the room, is utterly bare save for a large red apple gleaming at its center.
"...huh," Arela says as she enters. "Isaure, can you confirm for me that that's an apple? I've never seen one in person, but I know that they're supposed to be important to teaching for some reason."
"I'm very tempted to eat it, but I've read Earth mythology before and it sounds like a staggeringly terrible idea..."
She scans it with her omni-tool instead.
Her omni-tool thinks it's a fruit, very briefly. Then it glitches out and refuses to acknowledge the apple's existence or that it ever saw such a thing in its life.
"Deeply concerning things! It's actually weirder that it started by saying it was an apple and then said it didn't exist, if it was the other way 'round I'd think someone was editing the input and had a reaction time..."
Hornet hops up on the desk and stabs the apple through with her giant sewing needle.
A hand catches the sewing needle in midair before point can touch peel.
"Good morning!" says the beautiful woman who just appeared out of thin air standing behind the desk. "Welcome to Magic class. My name is Loki and I'll be your teacher this session."
She lets go of Hornet and snaps her fingers. Students are summarily teleported to desks.
"This," she says, indicating the apple with a wave of her hand, "is my standard extra credit project." She picks it up, takes a bite, and puts it back down. Bite mark and all, it shimmers and transmutes to what appears to be solid gold. A twinkling haze swirls in the air around it, drawing the eye. "The first student who picks this apple up off my desk and hands it to me gets one extra credit point, to be redeemed for such amenities as special tutoring, upgrades to your residential suite, or permission to bring a townie on campus. Questions?"
"...I'm not going to insult you by implying that you don't know you're doing the wrong mythological bit, but I'd like to point it out."
Tessa, being telekinetic, attempts to lift the apple into the air and into Loki's hand.
The apple shifts slightly, but remains firmly adhered to the desk. The haze surrounding it glitters alluringly.
"...huh," Hornet says. "Well played."
Then she hops back over to her desk and sits down again.
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