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[b][u]Aliquam: The Academy of the Arts - Central Sector[/u][/b]

“Wha… wha… what the hell?!” Tobias’ feet took two uneasy steps back, as from out of absolutely nowhere a bear suddenly emerged into thin air. 

The patron’s jaw had fallen completely, and his body grew rigid in surprise and fear. Lucien had been talking about summoning a bear numerous times throughout the night, but Tobias had written that off as another of his nonsensical jokes, even despite the tone Lucien would say it with, belying its existence. Tobias also knew that there was all types of magic in the world, but even with all this knowledge, he still couldn’t fully comprehend or adjust to the fact that a bear had materialised right behind him… or that it was docile and Lucien was controlling it. He shrieked, loudly, and ran as fast as he could, one arm gripping Lucien’s waist, the other suddenly grabbing Amy’s as he ran from the bear as quickly as he possibly could. 

A bear! In the Academy! Oh, Aislin!

Coincidentally enough, Tobias’ rampart running was taking the threesome north, precisely where they wanted to go in order to reach Estelle, Aria and Dalia. Tobias had yet to realise this, or consider the implications of possibly leading a bear right to them. For now, all he knew was he had to get away as quickly as he could… or risk being [i]eaten[/i].

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[b][u]Aliquam: Academy of the Arts: Southern Section[/u][/b]

“What just… what just happened?” From his position in the gardens, Lute looked towards his companions with disbelief and confusion. He had paused his efforts to use echolocation to scan their surroundings during their friends’ conversations with Aria’s group, and like Rose and Trixie had heard the unnerving silence that followed after hearing their friends discover the Masked Phantom. Even with Lute and Delilah’s efforts to try and increase the sound emanating from the communicator, wondering if perhaps there was something even at a dim and barely inaudible sound to listen to, they found that they were only granted silence back to them.

Rose stared at the communicator in her hands as her companions proceeded to freak the hell out, a mixture of concern for their team-mates Estelle and Aria, and excitement to find and capture that masked super villain troublemaker!! 

“What do we do, what do we do?!” Lute hopped up and down. “We, we have to go, now! Aria and Estelle could be in trouble!”

“Only one in trouble’s that thief!” Trixie punched her fist. “Lemme whack him!”

“Enough talk. Up.”

Much to the virtuoso and prankster’s surprise, they were both suddenly lifted up into the air and moving backwards at a rapid pace, their bodies bouncing up and down. Rose had grabbed both of them and ordered Sebastian to run, rushing from the Southern gardens towards one of the Academy’s entrances to the west, intending to ride straight up to the north. 

She plopped both Lute and Trixie on Sebastian. Trixie was seated in-between Rose and Sebastian’s head, gripping onto him as the moustached horse rode fiercely onwards. Lute, meanwhile, was behind the Student Council President, facing the rear. He grabbed onto Sebastian’s hind for dear life as the horse continued to [i]clip clop[/i] onwards.