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Kettil, to his credit, at least followed up the fart comment with something better and more credible. So it was not an entire loss! He settled again and then there was another answer brought up he started writing down notes.

* Fear is created by humans and we create that fear by scaring them.
* What creates Fear?

...He made a glance at Mot.

- Grumpy reaper boils.

He scribbled that note in small print.

Then he announced, "Um some people might think that xwálxwal--er Spiders are scary," Kettil offered helpfully.

Sometimes words slipped. Endzela sighed and added, "Mayhap they can also fear tall places..?"

Before they could really talk about the exams more, class officially started and Belladonna waved happily at the teacher when her name was called. Aww, she was so cute!
When asked about what created FEAR, Belladonna felt it better to just stay quiet. She was all the way in the back of the classroom and she didn't really want to shout. Not that this classroom was large enough to call for such, but still. She liked to participate in different ways. Plus it was more fun to listen to the other students.

But finally the time came for actual participation and the witch paused to consider what created fear for humans.
She was going to say something of her own, but noticed Amphi's movements. A quick eye spotted her answer and Belladonna waved too.
"Amphi says "drowning"! And I say... Death and dying!" That scared them right silly!

"Aha! Excellent, excellent answers all!" Even the Batman one? Yes, she looked just as delighted to write Batman down as she had the spiders or the future. "Just off the top of your head you see how many different types of frightening things there are, and so, so many more! We will not waste any more time trying to list even one millionth of all the kinds of fears, however, or else we won't learn a thing else now will we!" She capped her pen, and picked up another piece of clear paper. Three columns were readily written on there, waiting to be filled in.

"Today we will start with Glumgut's Categorizational Theory of Fear. It's the simplest one, but it's also so easy to refute! Isn't that fun? Please open up a fresh page of your notebooks, and copy the columns I have listed below. Now, to save time, I will quickly just add in where all of your suggestions go. Then we'll discuss it!"



"Now! I think it's obvious what these are, but we'll go over them anyway. Glumgut's Theory categorizes Fear into three main .. categories." She cleared her throat after pausing, when she realized just how repetitive she was being. "Ahh, so there is Tangible, Actional, and Abstract. Tangible is the Fear of things you can see, taste, and touch - and these Fears are usually in the form of nouns. Subsequently, Actional Fears can usually be found in the form of verbs - Fear of falling. Fear of dying. Fear of drowning. Actional Fears are the fear of something happening. But if you look carefully, you'll notice a bit of overlap! We'll discuss that in a minute. Let's move on to our third category, Abstract Fear. This is the most murky and complicated of categories because it's just so hard to pin down! Glumgut himself almost dissipated of a brain aneurysm once when he tried having an intellectual discussion with Professor Slipthroat who refuted his theory entirely, stating-"

She bit her lip, silently chastised herself for diverting off the subject, and waved the thought away. "Sorry, sorry, not important. Onto the Abstract! According to Glumgut, Abstract Fears are the mightiest of human woes, because they cannot simply be overcome by growing up or facing it. They are the Fears that will grip a Human throughout his or her lifetime, and may never let go. And they are often Fears that we ourselves suffer through as well. Fear of Change. Fear of Love. Fear of a deity. Fear of no afterlife. These are Fears that humankind inflicts upon themselves - you will not often see one of us creating an Abstract Fear. It is very complex, and very dangerous. And that is why our Trick or Treaters tend to focus on using the other Fears when dealing with humans. It's just cleaner that way. No mess!"

She giggled at what she thought was a joke, and moved on.

"Now, does everyone see how a tangible Fear can easily be considered an Actional Fear, simply by changing the tense of the word? Can you think of any other Fears like this? Or perhaps, some that can only go in one category? Those are the most rare of all!"

Sibyl may have forgotten she was in school. And in school you learn things by going to classes. And classes are run by teachers. Things like that. But you see it was really important she get that fish, and then the lizard really needed her help getting up the tree. And Mister Snake looked so lonely. She had to help them. She had to help them all.

And she did. She so totally did.

Who else could she he--huh? What was this?

She stopped at a classroom door that was left open, voices catching her attention. Sibyl stopped, stepping close to the doorway without going into the class yet. She was hearing questions! Oh hey wait! Right! She was in school! But oh no! Class had already started! She needed something. She needed to make up for being late for class! What to do what to do!

If anyone looked toward the open doorway they would see a small Selkie ghoul run flailing by. She returned soon after with..a large fish, soaking wet and fresh from some lake somewhere don't ask where it came from. Sibyl ran in, eyes wide and practically sparkling with joy.

"I'M HERE I'M HERE I'M HERE SORRY I'M LAAAAAAATE~!" She then ran straight to Selene, holding the fish out in offering. "This is for you! I'm sorries!"



How can anyone stay mad at that face?

Well, this class turned out to be a little less interesting than Shun anticipated.

"A blade. Tangible. Getting cut. Actional. Failure. Both abstract and actional. " he said in a flat tone... actually answering Selene for once. Perhaps he felt this was becoming a bit of a waste of time, between the professor being late to the subject matter.

"Is there a real purpose to categorizing these things? Or is it really all just a waste of time?" he asked, still deadpan. It didn't feel like it would matter what category something would fall under should they actually work on gathering the fear.

And then he heard JD pipe in to hit on the snake woman. The reaper just shook his head to himself.

Quickly writing down what was on the board, Astra made a note to pick up a textbook after the class, then listened to the rest of the lecture. She was sure she had learned some of this in another class, especialy the parts about tangible, actional and abstract.

"Oooh! I know I know!" She then piped up, hand waving in the air. "What about being lost? Thats tangible, and then you can be afraid of getting lost, thats a actional one, right?"

She was right wasn't she? She really hoped so!

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While Poke didn't have anything to say int his class, she had at least remembered to bring some notebooks and pens to jot things down. Though hearing JD in the background made her sigh, and she found her attention drifting to a small witch who seemed to have a fire on her desk

Ah, that was why. Faint was here. It was nice to see he was about.

Levi began dragging her graphite bit against the piece of paper she had, making a table to mimic the one Professor Selene had asked them to make a note of and replicate. The tatzel's ears tweaked to this new information she was hearing. Categories of Fear Thoery. It was close enough. The wording might have been off, but she was understanding what was being explained here.

The Professor was asking about things that could go in more than one category and the ghoul thought hard on it. Kettil's death and dying reason seemed to make sense as far as she could tell. What of the others? Hmmm... Placing both elbows on her desk, Levi pondered harder than her tiny brain cogs were used to. Shun was questioning the whole validity of this method of categorizing. The ghoul listened curiously to see what would come of this inquiry.

In the meantime, one hand went back to work writing, scratching out her note about the textbooks. She rewrote the new note about picking hers up at the bookstore just above the strikethrough.