Considering that it might have seemed like Cresaya had some rather big opinions, it would have been interesting to see what she had thought of Tostum. Naturally, he was very much in the same boat as the other werewolf. While he surely was no mind reader, he might end up figuring out what other's opinions of him were based solely on certain odors. That was a usual situation when one dealt with werewolves anyway. They had a tendency to be able to find out plenty about those they were dealing with through the fact that they could generally smell anything that was out of place.<br/><br/>Eventually it had looked like the mages just wanted to test out spells anyway. They were going to get themselves killed, at least in Tostum's eyes. He was actually quite grateful, in the end, that he was a magical creature who served a purely physical form.<br/><br/>It wasn't so much that he wasn't cerebral as it was that he had no wish to try the things that those mages always seemed to be up to and get themselves killed in the process. He had better things to do. Now, though, it looked like he had met his match. It was because he had decided to compete with another.<br/><br/>Instead of focusing on what he should have in the actual test, he had elected to allow himself to focus on his competition with another individual. Micky had sort of always been a rival to him. That might have explained why he had decided to do that. Elizabeth wasn't wasting any time either, which had made it that much more difficult.<br/><br/>Should this have been an actual battle, she surely would have been able to at least kill a mortal, and probably him too. Never in a million years could he have even guessed that what she was thinking about at that moment was fashion and how she liked her armor and such. That was the last thing he ever would have considered. His own mind was, predictably, focused on the fact that he was embarrassed at what had happened in the end.<br/><br/>Honestly he wasn't really sure if he was even actually supposed to continue here. He didn't really know whether or not eliminated individuals in the test were supposed to sit back, and he sort of forgot about some of the instructions that they had started out with.<br/><br/>Due to this fact, he ended up focusing on Micky's scent. Somewhere inside of him, he was blaming the other werewolf for what had happened, since this was a result of his rivalry with the other. Snarling a bit, which was unusual considering his human position, he picked up speed and started to run off as best as he could toward Micky. While it took him a few moments to dust himself off so to speak, he was eventually getting close to the mages as well. What was the most ironic part, to him anyway, was the fact that he had growled too once he had gotten close enough to hear what the mages were saying to him.<br/><br/>Even though he might have blamed the other for what had happened to him that quickly stopped mattering once they had started to mock a werewolf for being a werewolf. As he approached the group, he let out a low growl that came from his wolf side as well.<br/><br/>Following along, he didn't really keep his distance when Micky went wild on the one, but he didn't get involved quite either since Micky had already done enough to threaten him. Still, he did spit and let loose his own taunt. "You ever say that to one of us again and I'll tear you limb from limb." It was the first time that he kind of admitted that he didn't hate the other actually, even though much of their rivalry was actually friendly anyway.<br/><br/>As he had made his way over toward Cresaya as well, he figured that it might have been useful to make his own little addendum to what was being said. "Consider yourself lucky too, since there are many that would only give you a control amulet in exchange for carrying out some kind of dark deed on their behalf."<br/><br/>What the teacher had been saying had made some sense to Tostum, though he could only have made out bits and pieces. While he was supposed to be out of earshot, and was moving slowly to meet up with Takashi anyway, his superior sense of hearing had caught a little. Few people outside of their orders really understood the politics of their world. In fact, there were many inside of it that didn't have a complete grasp either.<br/><br/>Nevertheless, he just let the whole situation drop for the time being, and he did his best not to even focus on the fact that he had technically failed this test in a manner of speaking. Rather, he thought it best to go see what was going on with Takashi for the time being. That individual didn't really seem all that interested in actually carrying out what they were supposed to do here, so of course that was going to pique Tostum's interest.