Alice was just preparing to set off across the campus, having finished sketching the building in front of her, when she heard the scream. Aborting her attempt to put her drawing pad away, she instead flipped it back open and scratched out a quick familiar, bringing the paper up to her mouth and blowing the lines off the page to leave it blank again. As her creation reformed in front of her, she winced at the quality of it. The creature was a simple white hulk, ten feet tall and with no actual features besides the outline. The arms were slightly different sized and the head was lopsided, but it stood there waiting for her command anyway. 

"Pick me up and take me that way," she ordered, pointing in the direction she thought the sound had come from. She knew she wouldn't make it very far if she ran, but it wasn't the first time she had used a familiar to travel. Reaching toward her, the giant wrapped one meaty white hand around her midsection and lifted her over his shoulder like a bag of flower, taking off in a loping, knuckle dragging run towards the commotion. Alice didn't enjoy being manhandled like this, but he was being careful not to jostle her and changing the orders would waste time, so she would just have to deal with it. 

[I]Someone better be dying if I have to put up with this[/i] she thought, offhandedly repeating the words her father used to say in her head. If she had known the reality of the situation, she would have been mortified by her choice of phrasing, stray thought or no.