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</div><br/>Lori stared wistfully out the window of her cab. She felt strange about this whole situation she'd found herself. The last thing she could remember was boarding the plane as she waved goodbye to her parents. After that seemed to be just a fog. She's fallen asleep on planes before, that wasn't the weird part, it was the fact that she didn't even remember getting off the plane, getting her bags from bag check, and hailing the cab she is now sitting in heading towards her new school. She couldn't remember the face of the person driving, or even what they sounded like when she greeted them...IF she had even greeted them. Did she even tell them where she had to be?<br/><br/>Not long after she had that thought, however, the car pulled into a courtyard, a pair of large, ornate, black gates, shutting behind them. The initials S.A.U. stood before her in large stone lettering atop the central arch of the building ahead. "SAU..." she muttered to herself, "S. Atir University...I guess I did tell them my destination. But why can't I remember anything?" She sighed and shook her head, thinking perhaps it merely the butterflies of a new school, new place, getting to her. As the cab pulled to a stop just before the university entrance, Lori stepped out of the car, dragging her bags from the seat next to where she sat, feeling the weight of them drop to the gravel below her feet. She turned to reach into her purse, taking out a wallet and grabbing what few dollars she had, but before she could offer them to the driver, he had already put the car into reverse and made its way off of campus. "Huh...weird. Oh well, At least that's a few more dollars saved." She shrugged, thinking nothing more on it as she dragged at her heavy baggage towards the cherry wood doors. They were large, not as large as the stone archway that they sat beneath, but upon them hung two gargantuan iron knockers shaped like goat skulls. It was extremely unsettling to stare at, it made her wonder if perhaps she came to the wrong place after all. But, the initials above the doors only pushed further that she was indeed where she was meant to be.<br/><br/>With a deep breath, she reached up towards on of the hanging black handles, and with a bit of strength behind her grasp, she knocked. Two long loud thuds echoed through the halls behind the doors. No answer at first. She reached to knock again, but before her fingers could touch the cool metal, the door creaked open and behind it was a face of a worn looking man. He was older than Lori by a couple of decades, a stringy black beard of decent length hung below his chin, and a mess of wavy black hair to match draped over his ears. His bushy eyebrows furrowed for a moment, before relaxing as his brown eyes settled on the petite girl before him. A warm smile adorned his mouth as recognition immediately took over the confused look of before. "Ah, Ms. Hathway I presume?" His voice was smooth and rather young sounding for his apparent age.<br/><br/>"Yes, sir." Lori answered back meekly. He was far taller than she was despite the fact that he stood with a strange hunch.<br/><br/>"Very good, very good, we've been expecting you! Please, follow me!" His warm aura quickly heightened to that of excitement. He grabbed Lori's baggage with relative ease, leaving her to carry only her purse, and made his way inside, beckoning her to follow. "We are so very pleased to have you at our institution. We've been on the search for somebody like you, and now that I've met you I can tell you'll be absolutely perfect. A perfect fit with our student body." He chuckled a bit at that last statement, as if telling a joke that went completely over Lori's head. "Our rules are rather simple, not unlike your previous uni I'm sure. We do have a curfew. Nobody out of their dorms past 10pm, except for those with late night classes." As the man continued on with the rules of the school, Lori couldn't help but zone out and focus on something other than what he was saying. As she followed behind, her eyes went straight to his backside, specifically a spot just above his rear, with sheer confusion. A small lump seemed to protrude just below the waistband of his pants that moved slightly left to right as he walked. And his walk was even stranger. It was almost as if his legs bent the wrong way as his gait gave him a slight bounce to each of his steps. Her head tilted as she watched, mesmerized by this odd walk.  Maybe her bags were heavier than he made it seem to be and it's affecting his gait? "Well, here is where you will be staying." He announced, pulling Lori from her stupor and back into the present, presenting to her a door leading into her dorm room. "If you have any questions, feel free to visit me at my office."<br/><br/>"Uh...thank you. I'm sorry, sir, but did you tell me your name? I'm not sure I had gotten it." She bit at her bottom lip, feeling worried that he had introduced himself while she was dazed out, but if he was the one she was to go to if she need assistance, then a name would be necessary.<br/><br/>"Oh I'm sorry my dear girl, I fear I haven't! I am the Dean," he made a light bow in her direction, one arm across his mid section, the other behind his back, "Dean Satiago Atir, or just Dean Atir. Pleased to make your acquaintance my dear Lori Hathway."<br/><br/>Lori felt her heart jump into her throat. The Dean of the school, the one who ran the whole university, the one whose initials sat above the stone archway just outside the front door, was the one who had taken her under his wing and helped her feel at home and she blatantly ignored for the majority of their meeting. Without a thought, she quickly gave a small curtsy in return, unsure if that's even what she was supposed to do, but it seemed like the proper response to his bow. He laughed, making her question even further if that was the right reaction. "I'm terribly sorry, sir, I had no idea. Had I known-"<br/><br/>"Nonsense, you were a perfect lady, despite not knowing who I am." He pulled out a folder from the inside of his jacket, and handed it to her, "In here you'll find a copy of the campus rules, your schedule, and a map of the grounds. I've marked the location of my office, your dorm, and to help you a bit more, I even circled the classrooms that you will be sitting in for this semester."<br/><br/>"Thank you," she accepted the handouts and held them close, "just one more question though. It said on the letter that I will have to work to earn my free tuition. What and where exactly will I be working?"<br/><br/>The Dean's grin slowly turned into something a bit more...wicked. It was still a smile, but something felt off about it. "You'll find out in your first class." The air about him seemed to shift to something a bit more ominous, but just as quickly had it arrive, it very quickly dissipated and went back to his previous cheery self. "Speaking of which, your first class starts in about an hour. Do see that you're not late on your first day. I hope you have a wonderful stay here." And with that, he turned and left her in front of her dorm. She stared as he walked down the hallway, watching his walk unchanged in its bounciness and odd bend at the knee. She shrugged, trying not to think any more on it and turned towards the door.<br/><br/>"Welp, time to see who I'm rooming with." She turned the knob, letting the door swing open, only to find something she was not expecting....<br/><br/>((THROW YOUR CHARACTER IN HERE! :D To keep with the suspense of Lori's ignorance of the kind of school she's in, I would love if this character would be human-looking in form. I want her to find out at her first class that it's a school full of monsters. If you'd rather playing some other, non-human looking characters, you can just put yourself somewhere else on campus until you're made known to Lori during or after her first class.))[/spoiler]