As quietly and carefully as she can, Lori reaches down to retrieve her stuffed animal and hugs him to her chest, almost whimpering with nervousness.  More puzzlement...and for once she isn't at all afraid to look a bit childish.  This class was<em>scary</em>!  Strange incantations were usually bad news.<br/><br/>There was that one time in high school, after all...her notes had ended up written all over her body and it took a week before they faded.  All because she had mispronounced one word in an incantation for sharpening her recall of texts!  A prettier girl could have made it a new make-up fad or something, but poor little Lori just looked weird.