<span style="color: #40BFFF"><span style="font-weight: bold">School bus</span></span><br/><br/>Smuts looked at the leviathan cross with due anticipation. He practically dropped the doll and tried to snatch the talisman off of Aaron.<br/><br/>“Hey hey HEY!” Maya quickly leaned over to object towards the rat’s greedy ways “first the doll… then the cross… deal?”<br/><br/>The rat twitched his whiskers and muttered something incoherently silly and cartoon like under his breath.  Causing Aaron to look at him dubiously.<br/>What was he dealing with?<br/><br/>“Deal?” Maya reiterated. Her eyes narrowing coarsely despite having a soft face at heart.<br/><br/>“..nyap nyap… pft fine… deal! Take it!” he picked up the doll and tossed it to Aaron, who caught it deftly. Maya beckoned for Aaron to pass her the cross, just after he had put the doll in his own bag.<br/><br/>“Friggin neat!” Smuts grinned toothily as he held the cross with both hands. Staring at it like a piece of cheese he had just scavenged.<br/><br/>“Hey… use it wisely…” Aaron lectured “better still, maybe put it in a safe place.”<br/><br/>“….likewise…” Smuts drawled “pick your target wisely with that there doll…”<br/>Maya and Aaron exchanged looks. Mixtures of doubt, suspicion and incredulousness in transition.<br/>When they turned around again, they found that smuts had mysteriously disappeared.<br/>Then it occurred to them both that the scenery outside had come to a stop. Through the windows, stood the country sides, school walls, and the front gate. Students of all sorts making their way to the institute. Some with a spring in their step whereas others looked like they had a ball and chain dragging them down. The enthusiasm for school was really mixed amongst the plethora of students going onwards.<br/><br/>“Well… guess this is our stop…” Maya said, getting up, whilst eyeing the voodoo doll that was now iN Aaron’s position.<br/><br/>“You don’t think that thing really works right?” she asked.