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This was painful. Max could see it everytime he looked back; the gears turning behind Eris' carefully crafted facade. Earlier he was likely just floundering for something to say, but now he'd been offered an easy question. Was he caught off guard by the fact that Max had bothered to reply at all? Or was he picking that statement apart for doublespeak and veiled malice? It was three words, for fuck's sake, what happened to all that talk of trust?

Nice to know Anderson was an actual big name, though. That mage really wouldn't have any way of fucking him over now that the test was already underway, and it wasn't like he particularly cared about his grade here anyway if they decided to flunk him for "cheating", but it was better to avoid annoying complications if he could. He had no idea who Diana Ilma was, but he assumed it was some big name acting coach if Eris bothered mentioning her. Or he was desperately trying to plug his mentor so she [i]could[/i] become a big name acting coach. 

Eris' second comment actually got a smirk out of him - or maybe that was from the vampire stumbling, who could say? Good choice, Eric, Max was far more comfortable talking shit than discussing inane bits of his home life. 

[color=8585ad]"Ryner had something to do with this. She wanted to make you guys squirm, for one reason or another. Maybe keep the new generation in line, maybe get a cheap laugh,"[/color] Max theorized aloud, [color=8585ad]"As for the extra credit, I don't really care if we get it or not. If it's a pain in the ass- oh, look, a pain in the ass."[/color] He gave Eris' arm another sharp tug, increasing his pace as he spotted the random table in the middle of the woods.

[color=8585ad]"Another riddle. We got a table and two domes, one's got yellow blocks inside and the other's got blue blocks. There's some runes or some shit on them but fuck if I know what they mean,"[/color] Max described rapidly, taking note of Eris' earlier whining about getting an inadequate visual description. [color=8585ad]"Riddle is [i]'Take what solace you each can find, that of others or that of mind, and keep it close as you trudge west to try and pass your first test.'[/i]. Direction's clear, so this is obviously part of the extra credit. You got any ideas or should we just keep going?"[/color]
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