Nope.

Some of them are giving him varyingly inscrutable weird looks, though.

If he cares maybe at some point he'll try to find out what that's about. But right now he's going to eat dinner and then maybe torture some small animals. The supply of feral cats around here is limited but he thinks he'd kind of like having a pet skeletal cat.

Anaseverina is vaguely unsettled by the weird looks and mostly hunches over her dinner trying to eat as quickly as possible.

Seems pretty reasonable of her, all things considered.

Once she has finished she fidgets nervously until he has.

Doesn't take long.

Back to his room?

Yes please.

Back to his room it is.

Good.

...More hug?

Sure.

Okay good.

Eventually she unhugs to practice magic because the only thing scarier than being raped again is Savaross if she slacks off too much.

That is very true.

Tassairen starts working on that skeletal cat.

Anaseverina is completely unbothered by the animal torture. Such is growing up in this hellpit.

If Tassairen happens to pay any attention to what she's doing he can probably notice pretty quickly some of the more egregious things she's doing wrong.

He pays enough attention to casually point out a few of those in between cat screams.

She thanks him and goes back to practicing, now somewhat less haplessly.

By the time they should probably be sleeping, he has a skeletal cat curled up with his skeletal drakelet in the bowl where he keeps the drakelet when it's not with him.

Aww. "Those're cute."

He laughs. "Yeah."

"I'd've done a songbird if I could've gotten the hang of the wings. Something I could put out a window and have fly around where the other apprentices couldn't get it when I couldn't have it with me."

"I haven't done a songbird yet. Maybe I'll give you one for your birthday."

"...That'd be lovely. You're the nicest person I've ever met, Tassairen."

He shrugs. He goes over and pets her hair.

Hairpets are so good.

"...We should probably sleep. Where do you want me?"

He considers.

"In my bed unless you'd be scared there."

"--As long as it doesn't actually entail--it'll be fine, I'm not scared of you."