Talk:Salamander/@comment-96.32.109.252-20160216000541/@comment-26115871-20160216204939

"Hi there! My name's Lolipop, but my friends call me Prince. What's your name?"

She just gives me this weird look as most of the onlookers chuckle. The danger of a combat knife doesn't register for me (Knives are, after all, used for cutting food down to managable size), so I just smile at her as she awkwardly stands there, trying to figure out how to explain her challenge in such a way that I will understand it.

"ROSE!"

I happily greet my mantis teacher, who marches up to the salamander and - with a single swipe of her arm - cuts the knife in half. She then turns and smiles at me. "Come on Prince, it's study hall! Want to do what we did last study hall?"

"Okay!"

With that she takes me by the hand and leads me through the crowd, subtly flipping off the startled salamander when I'm not looking.