Kyle and Jenny sat next to each other in their very first REAL class in college. The room was essentially a small arena, semicircles of chairs behind semicircles of desks sloping down towards a central stage with a huge screen taking up most of the wall behind it. Overall, Kyle wasn't feeling very comfortable with everything, because of who else was in the room.

"What's she doing here?" Kyle hissed, gesturing towards where Hanna was sitting, staring straight ahead and completely ignoring them.

"I think she's still a student right?" Jenny said. "And I bet she's still supposed to watch you. I thought you were going to ask about her."

Jenny gestured over to where Sylvanandra was sitting, smirking at them.

"No we KNOW what she's doing here," Kyle pointed out. "She told us. I'm not happy about it, but at least we know."

"It's not so bad. We're stronger than both of them, so..."

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"And then there's him!" Kyle pointed behind them to where Benny was sitting. He gave them a little wave. "We don't know if we're stronger than him or not..."

"But he's here to bodyguard us, so it's okay if he's stronger than we are! I mean isn't he supposed to be?"

"I dunno if I trust agent Nunez," Kyle said.

"Awww but she's nice!"

"She's also got a job to do. We're not her priority. And we COULD be a big problem for her. It's possible we'd end up on opposite sides in the future..."

"I don't think so!" Jenny said with a perky smile. "I think Agent Nunez is one of our friends! And I trust all our friends. Don't you?"

"I mean I guess so," Kyle sighed. "That question was kind of a trap though, since I don't know if I count Nunez as a friend. I trust everybody who we trained in the forest with."

"Well that's all we need then! New adventures! Shared experiences!"

"I guess. I just don't know...if...we..."

That, Kyle thought, just wasn't fair.

He hasn't said anything. Not "as long as nothing else happens" or "at least it can't get any worse" or anything like that. Hadn't even been thinking about it. He was thinking about the problem posed by Agent Nunez. He had done nothing to incite the universe to punish him with another thing to worry about.

So when the professor walked in with a huge, curving pair of spectral horns growing out of her head, he could only curse an uncaring universe.