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					<div class="bbWrapper">"-and so I said to Wilkins: you've been stealing my ideas for years, you've been treating me like a temporary intern making me do anything but the job I've actually applied and been hired for, you've not paid me for all the work I've put in, and you've been screwing your secretary behind your wife's back - not that it's difficult considering your wife doesn't have two brain cells to rub together - and this entire place is so full of itself that the ego is enough to choke a normal person! Why do you think the interns come and go so quickly?! Well, here's another person who's going to be leaving, and I'm not coming back no matter how much you beg me! In fact, it wouldn't surprise me if this entire place went to the dogs without me! I'd wish you a goodbye, but I'd be lying about the 'good'! Although there was a lot more cursing. After that I slammed the door."<br>
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Elizabeth stepped off the bus, holding the cell phone firmly in case some of the other people bumped into her. She already felt out of place surrounded by people almost ten years younger than herself, there was no need to add clutz to the list of reasons for people to stare at her. It was embarrassing enough being twenty-eight and attending school again.<br>
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<i>"And how did that rant work out?"</i> Anne asked from the other side of the phone, her voice accompanied by the sounds of the big city.<br>
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"I felt good. I felt so damn good." Elizabeth crossed the street and entered the grounds of the community college. "For about two days and then I realised that I had no work and bills to pay. Wilkins obviously spread the word about my exit. No one wanted to hire me. At one place they actually called me in for an interview and then promptly asked me to leave when I showed up. Bastards the whole damn lot of them."<br>
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"<i>So that's why you're living with your mother?</i>" Anne sounded competlely unconcerned.<br>
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"Yeah." She sighed heavily. "My savings ran dangerously low. I miss my apartment. I loved my apartment! And now my mom's trying to set me up with every man she knows. Just because my sister's married and popping out babies faster than one can blink..." Elizabeth looked at the map of the community college, looking for the right building where her class was held. For a community college practically in the middle of nowhere this place was huge. The entire town (tiny as it was) practically lived on the income provided by the students.<br>
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"<i>And what are you going to do now? Continue searching?</i>"<br>
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"Of course. I've enrolled in a one-year course in design for extra credit. I might do some others to spiff up my application, but I'll have to see what interests me." She set off once she located the correct building and the path to it. "I'll do my best ot be back into the big city as soon as possible - there's a reason I left this place as soon as possible you know - but I might actually have to move to another city altogether in order to get a job. Wilkins did a damned good job of it. You know, I would have preferred it if Wilkins sexually harrassed me. Then I could have sued his bastardly arse into the next ice age!"<br>
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Anne laughed. "<i>Well, honey, with that exit I wouldn't have been surprised if you had to go to another country in order to get a new job in our field. I'm just sorry I missed it, I've been waiting for you to explode on Wilkins for four years.</i>"<br>
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"Hardy-har-har. Thanks for the support, I feel your love. I really do." Elizabeth smiled. "Listen, I've gotta go, I'm almost at the classroom. I'll call you later on to complain about being surrounded by hormones of stupidity masquerading as human beings."<br>
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"<i>Ta for that, honey!</i> <i>I'll pray for the survival of your brain!</i>" Anne practically cackled before hanging up.<br>
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Elizabeth rolled her eyes and pocketed the phone. She looked at the papers in her hand and then at the numbers along the classroom doors and then back to the papers again. Something had to have been wrong with the printer when the school did her paperwork because she honest to god couldn't figure out if the classroom number was supposed to be a number 8 or a number 9, and there were no indicators outside the doors about which class was supposed to be inside. In the end she knocked on the number 8 door and stuck her head inside.<br>
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"Excuse me, is this the classroom for Advanced Design?" she asked, tucking a strand of her brown hair behind her ear.</div>
				
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					<div class="bbWrapper">The fairly small classroom at that moment was empty, save for a single individual. He was a fairly tall - about 5' 11'', slight of build, fair skinned and black haired. The hair on his head was short, and he had something of a beard clinging to his face, actually about the same length as the rest of his hair. There was a sleep deprived look in his emerald green eyes, which fit with the thermos he was drinking out of, which seemed to be emitting steam and likely contained coffee. He was wearing a white button down shirt, black khakis, and black shoes. He actually looked to be roughly the same age as Elizabeth.<br>
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The projector backdrop had been pulled down and tied off to a metal widget on the floor. The projector was currently displaying an artistic image of something that bore a striking resemblance to the devil, albeit with a few alterations. The creature's horns were straight, and sticking directly out of the top of its head, its eyes were like those of a lizard, and its body was covered in thick, black fur. Its tongue was hanging down out of its mouth, was serpentine, and looked to be almost as long as its head was tall. Most disconcertingly, it was holding some kind of multi-tailed whip in one hand, and a strap attached to a basket of what appeared to be wailing children that hung on its back in the other.<br>
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The man chuckled briefly, "Ah, no, sorry. I think there was some kind of printing error with the new schedules this semester, you're not the first design student to wander in here. I've had some literature students show up, too. This is Intro to Folklore though, FLK101, the classroom you're looking for is back out the door there and off to the right. Professor's Mrs. Burch. Uh, look out though? She's kind of intense. Don't get me wrong, she knows her stuff, from what I hear she had her own design studio and had some pretty impressive clients before she decided to retire and pursue teaching, she's just a little... Yeah, intense. I'm sure you'll be fine, though."</div>
				
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					<div class="bbWrapper">"Thanks for the help. I had no idea this place was this big." Elizabeth said. She had very deliberately gone to school as far away from her hometown as she possibly could get. She should really get going to her class even if she wasn't late, but the thought of spending extra time in a classroom surrounded by idiot kids was not very plesant. Instead she looked the teacher up and down - a good three or four inches taller than her - and then looked behind him at the picture.<br>
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The fur, the horns, the damned souls of children, the entire mood of the picture, even the serpentine tongue! All silver words and lying, taking advantage of honest people. Hell, it couldn't have been a more realistic depiction of Wilkins even if the artist had tried! It was scary how alike the picture was compared to Elizabeth's former boss, and she stepped closer to look at it better. Though the picture was quite morbid it was definitely a portrait of Wilkins.<br>
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"Who's this guy?" she asked and looked at the teacher, nodding towards the projection. "Is this that Jersey Devil thing?"<br>
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The only reason she knew about the Jersey Devil was because she had seen it once on <i>Cake Boss</i>.<br>
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					<div class="bbWrapper">She took his hand and shook it firmly - it never paid to have a weak 'feminine' handshake she had found - and smiled. "Elizabeth Bennet."<br>
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Well, it almost stood to reason that an associate professor of folklore would believe the many urban tales about creatures and supernatural beings, but Arthur at least managed to be quite charming in a slightly geeky way. It certainly was nothing like the overwhelming obsession that was Elizabeth's cousin on a good day. Perhaps it was the lack of 'the government is trying to kill us all' after every single sentence? It certainly helped!<br>
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					<div class="bbWrapper">"Hi Elizabeth," he replied, shaking her hand for a few moments. "You must be talking about Black Peter. He's uh... A bit of a controversial figure, I guess you could say. Theory is that he arose from the older stories of St. Nicholas, who was actually a <i>bit</i> of a bastard. The church wasn't too happy with the idea of a saint that wasn't a purely good individual, and this was at a time when you did <i>not</i> want to make the church unhappy with you. Thus, St. Nicholas, in certain places, the Netherlands being one of them, was sort of "split" into St. Nicholas and "Zwarte Piet", "Black Peter" or more commonly just "Black Pete". St. Nicholas kept primarily kind, gentle traits while Black Peter stuffed the stockings of misbehaving children with coal or twigs. It's also said that he'll capture <i>very</i> bad children, and take them away to Spain, where according to the legends of that part of the world, he and St. Nick hang out when it's not Christmas time. I suppose in that way he's a bit similar to Krampus, although, while I've never been to Spain personally, I have to imagine it's nicer than the underworld, where the Krampus is supposed to drag children. The celebration you're probably thinking of is the Feast of St. Nicholas, which is somewhat similar to Christmas here in the states. The controversial part comes in where people dressing up as Black Peter for the holiday put on... Certain facial decoration, shall we say? He's not called Black Peter for nothing, he's supposed to be a Moor from Spain, and uh... Yeah, well, people in the international community tend to get kind of riled up when people put on blackface, even if it is admittedly mostly for the entertainment of children. Me personally, I'm not gonna touch that whole bag of worms with a ten foot pole, just suffice it to say that Christmas traditions can get a bit weird in certain parts of the world."</div>
				
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					<div class="bbWrapper">"Well, I kind of think that the kids who ended up in Spain and the warmth got the better end of the deal. At least they didn't have to freeze and they got a free trip. Couldn't be better, really." Elizabeth smiled wider and turned back to the projected image. "So, this - what did you say it was? A Karampus? Kampus? Krampus? This thing here, it's not going to show up in the states as anything other than an urban legend, is it? I'd really rather that my Christmas isn't ruined by this thing or any of its compatriots showing up to drag anyone off to hell. Huh, I wonder if it would speak German of some sort. Bit of a communications nightmare right there."<br>
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She looked at her wrist watch and bit her lip. Another few moments and her Advanced Design class would start in the other classroom. Elizabeth had looked over the course information and most of it was things that she already knew. The only things that she really had to do was to do the assigned papers and other course work, the theoretical she could easily skip. She had envisioned being bored to death in the class, but if she did the work and perhaps attended a lecture or two - or however many they wanted her to attend - then maybe she didn't actually have to be there all the time.<br>
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					<div class="bbWrapper">"I doubt the Krampus is going to be showing up anywhere in or out of the states, so I wouldn't worry too much about getting dragged off to hell. Well, by the Krampus anyway, I can't necessarily vouch for anything else, I mean if you decide to go out to New Jersey and go camping in the Pine Barrens, who knows?" He smiled when she asked if there was room in the class, "Oh sure," he replied, "Honestly it's not a very popular class. It's a general elective, not wordy enough to count towards words and letters, not theoretical enough to count towards philosophy, not enough of a human element to really qualify it as anthropology. Given the choice of general electives, most folks would rather learn how to play an instrument or something along those lines than to take what they figure amounts to just another essay class. Honestly, I'm surprised they're still letting me teach it. I have a feeling that if I ever get the faculty angry enough at me, they're gonna boot me out of here. We'll need to get some paperwork filled out after class to make it official, so you'll get your credits, but if you want to have a seat we'll be getting started before too long."<br>
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					<div class="bbWrapper"><span style="color: #0000ff">Scully to my Mulder, eh? Aww... That's a really cute way of putting it. </span><span style="color: #000000">Arthur smiled a bit bigger. "Yeah, something like that. A trial period works for me,  saves me money in the short term. I'm sure you'll be a perfectly wonderful assistant, but like you said, there's no way to tell until we get out into the field, and at the end of the day you might decide that camping out in the mud for hours on end with a camera isn't for you. Wouldn't blame you really, it isn't for </span><span style="color: #000000"><i>most</i></span><span style="color: #000000"> people."</span><br>
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She pushed a strand of hair that had escaped the bun back behind her ear. "Tell you what, if I find my mom's old tent and if it's still usable I'll bring it. If not then I'll take you up on that offer of tent-sharing. It would probably be better for safety as well I suppose, especially out in a swamp where dry, firm ground is scarce. I don't know anything about camera traps and fancy equipment like that, so I'm afraid I'm not much help there. What about cell phones? will we be able to get a connection out in the swamp? And you wouldn't happen to have a map of the safe paths or something, would you? Drowning in a swamp isn't on my Bucket list. Oh, and you'll have to update me on this swamp monster legend as well if you don't mind."<br>
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She listened to the legend of the swamp dragon in silence, pushing her bag up further onto her shoulder once. She could hear it in his voice just how fascinating he found this to be, and although it did sound like a good way to scare stupid people away from an unsafe bog it didn't seem like anything else but that. She wasn't into this sort of thing but she could already think of half a dozen other things that it could be other than a dragon.<br>
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