Basics in Teaching

Chapter 5 - Basics in Behavior (3/3)

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Chapter 5 - Basics in Behavior

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The weary English teacher continued to roam the halls of the Paper School, focusing on trying to find as many students as possible to help them escape the nightmare that reigned terror in the school. Thus far, he hadn't been incredibly successful; he encountered a few scarce, limited instances of a student or two hiding somewhere 'obvious', but they were just that: scarce instances.

During this pursuit, he encountered a number of the school's faculty. The situation wasn't good. Many of them were wholly affected by this brainwashing effect that he believed Alice to be behind, roaming the hallways and looking for any stray students to coup up somewhere for whatever nefarious purpose the demon had in store for them.

He wasn't sure whether or not every teacher was affected, but he had heard from one of the students he managed to find that Miss Teck was 'immune' to it, so it gave him a small pittance of hope that some others had the same type of immunity.

In any case, he theorised that most of the students were likely being kept somewhere en masse, if they hadn't already been killed yet. But there was no trace, no evidence of any type of massacre having taken place, at least from what he has seen so far, and even Mister Colt seemed reluctant in killing any students.

One thing he told him resonated in his mind.

"Resisted her, did'ja now? Well, she ain't tell me I can't kill off my colleagues."

Not only did this implicate Alice as the main suspect behind this entire thing, but it also implied that she didn't want the students to be killed, or at least not yet, which gave him the ounce of hope he needed to keep him going.

...but everything, to him, was still all conjecture and assumptions. What did he truly know, after all?

The cafeteria was the first place that came to mind, where most, if not everyone, could be held. It was lunchtime when the entire debacle went down, and that was likely his best bet in finding most of the students within the school and potentially getting them all out. Especially if Alice was going to go through the effort to round everyone up, and other than the library, the cafeteria was the best place to do it.

"If only... if only I'd been here. Maybe I could've done something-made a difference. Now God knows how many people are dead, and all my friends are damn... puppets."

Another thing loomed in his mind like a forewarned hurricane leering overhead, waiting to topple a feeble, wooden home. Miss Thavel. Rebecca. He hadn't seen her yet at all, which worried him half to death. He knew she was capable of handling herself, but there lied the issue of her, along with Circle and Bloomie, of being turned. They were all very deadly, he had come to find out.

But it was an especially dangerous case with Miss Thavel. Once, during one of their 'dates', she told him about some sort of form she had. A sort of true form, a transformation that she had to restrain at a young age. It essentially returned her to her primal instincts, making her a danger to everyone and herself. He never saw it firsthand, Rebecca was incredibly insistent on that, but he has heard of demi-human wendigos on the news going on rampages before being subduing and detained by special forces.

It was rare, but it did happen.

Which only made him all the more worried for the language teacher, and for those she may encounter.