Thomas felt a chill run up his spine and goosebumps burst out from under his flesh.<em>Oh God oh God, what is happening...she doesn't mean to kill us does she?</em>The thought made his heart skip a beat as the blood in his veins froze from fear.<em>What could this possibly be about?</em>He thought as panic set in and he could only analyze the situation around them.  They were locked into this room with Xan and the Headmistress, arguably two of the most powerful users of magic in the world.  He swallowed hard and brought up just enough courage to answer her.<br/><br/>"We're sorry for the delay headmistress, we had a bit of a disagreement on the way here from combat practice." The young and terrified arcane apprentice said visible signs of fear like: sweat, goosebumps and shivering showing through.  As attracted as he was to the headmistress, he was more afraid of her and the erection he was worried about hiding was now nothing more than a flacid lump against his leg.<em>Please, just don't kill us...</em>, was all he could think of as his eyes sought some means of escape someway to get out of this mess if it was truly going to turn ugly.<br/><br/>It was useless, Xan could easily obliterate them even if the headmistress didn't want to get involved.  He resigned to his fate.