NAME:  Karen Schmidt<br/>ROLE IN SCHOOL:  English Teacher<br/>TIME OF DAY:  Noon<br/>LOCATION:  Dean's Office<br/>TAGGING:  Samuel Ervin, Aaron Shaw<br/><br/>On her way to lunch, Karen looked up from some papers as she heard Samuel greet her.  "Oh, hello..." she started, but then paused as he moved past her.  She turned to watch him for a second, then moved and grabbed his arm.  "Samuel, are you alright?" she asked.  But he didn't respond.  Just pulled away and kept going.  "Samuel!  ..." she called after him, staring.  ...That did it.  Samuel was clearly not suited to teaching, not ready for the stresses the job presented.  She turned on her heel and headed for the dean's office, intent on speaking with Aaron about Samuel and making him see that a teen could not handle the pressures of instructing other teens.<br/><br/><hr/><br/>NAME:  Penelope Archer<br/>ROLE IN SCHOOL:  Student<br/>TIME OF DAY:  Noon<br/>LOCATION:  Cafeteria<br/>TAGGING:  Jessica Reynolds, Samuel Ervin (exiting), Jake Crow<br/><br/>What was going on?  The other girl had seemed endlessly upset one minute with something Mr. Ervin had said, and then the next...the next, she was asking black melty-fire boy to sit down.  How did she know him?  Did she know what he could do??  Penelope stared down at her chicken and dumplings, pushing them around.  It'd be rude to get up and run away...let alone walk away.  But she'd lost her appetite and was hard pressed not to do just that.  Bolt back to the safety of her room and her paints.  She swallowed and sat still, trying not to show how uneasy she was.