Ryder had been silent this entire time, simply watching the others with bored, yet sharp eyes that were hidden behind the darkness that his hair cast. The horned shadow ghost goat had disappeared a while ago, and he was alone, bored, once again. As Mr. Pikes entered, he lied his head onto his desk, blanketing his body completely in darkness, which he allowed to absorb him farther into the Shadow Realm. The Shadow Realm, he learned a while ago, was basically a world where everything was literal dark. Pitch black. He was basically floating in a void, now.

Floating onto his back, Ryder rose a hand, making a flat-screen television made of darkness, that showcased what was going on in the class, from a bird's eye POV. He watched as a darkness clone, virtually the same as himself, formed in the class and sat down again. Great, so he can just skip class this way. Of course, he'd have to watch his clone, but at least he could float around and do things.