[There's really no point to Caim using video when his expression is always the same. And when he can't talk. But he will if the situation calls for it.]

It has been two months.

[Over two months since he arrived in that damned portal.]

I have delayed myself long enough.

[Which can only mean one of two things. He either desperately needs to find his way back to his dragon, or he just needs to plain murder someone. Or both.
As an afterthought he adds:]

I find the cultures and societies here agitating at best.

[Good morning Smash Academy. A video feed opens up and what appears to be a sort of mini theater is set up. The curtains open up revealing...a plastic cutout of this picture on a Popsicle stick. Very primitive but it will do.]

Good day!

[The figure shakes, the expression not changing nor the pie he is holding. The voice is clearly Lash pretending to be a man.]

...The symphony "The Cyrus is Stupid" refereed to the titular dumb idiots who too long, didn't read too much by traits associated with the fact they are stupid. The suites bear those as names. Bringer of stupid, Bringer of bad hair, Bringer of trying to impress too much...

[A tiny little plastic cannon rolls by, but fake Cyrus pushes it away. Then she puts on a piece of music in the background]

Ahem! As I was saying, According to legend, humans knew not of war before the god of war introduced it to them bla bla bla I am Cyrus and look at me do boring speeches about War even if I've never been in a real war and would get shot down two minutes after setting foot in it, unless I didn't bore everyone else with my talks.

Bla bla bla bla peace will never happen I don't believe in miracles, fucking magnets, how do they work?

We want to believe that we are acceptable. That we are moral. Something about villains and heroes wow this entire text is so boring.

And yet we have not yet realized that as a species. And then I'll go in a roundabout way about how we are the war.

And then Smash Academy was the war.


...so does anyone want pie? It's cooked with my shame and guilt.


[Fake cyrus takes a bow, and the curtain closes. A sign appears with CYRUS WILL NOW ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS. .]

I probably should have done this when I first arrived but with the masquerade and everything ... now is as good of a time as any. Though the network is super annoying right now.

Anyway. My name's Ray. I was here ... some ... number of years ago as a student, but things are gonna be a little different. I'm going to be teaching Atmospheric Sciences which is basically a fancy term for Meteorology which is just another fancy term for this is going to be an easy class as long as you pay attention to the simulations and, oh I don't know, read. There will probably be a lot of out-of-class observations since the weather tends to botch when I'm around. Gonna try and get that under control but. You know, whatever. It'll probably be useful to you flying types, if you don't already know how to look out for bad flying weather. But that's it.

I don't really have anything else to add.

[After weeks of housing in one of the temporary dorms, Genny finally got word that his dorm was fixed.

However, one of the new teachers was living in it now. In fact, from what Genny could tell, it was the teacher that had caused the rainfall in the first place.

But it wasn't all bad. He did have a new permanent place to live.

It was his old dorm.

With Char.

Cue Genny entering the dorm with bags, pretending like nothing had happened.]