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Kat squeaked in protest as he grabbed her, not expecting to be tossed over someone's shoulder and carried away from the danger. If anything, she'd expected that she would have to run on her own, but he'd been faster than her anyways. She huffed again as he plopped her back onto the ground, stumbling a little before finding her balance. The yellow eyes hadn't followed them, so she assumed that it hadn't found them worth the chase.

"Well, geez," she grumbled, smoothing out her rumpled hair. "No need to manhandle me." Rude. "Thanks, though, I guess. What's a chokevine?" She'd never heard of that before. Perhaps she should study monsters or something...it sounded like it could be something interesting and worth her time.​
 
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"If you hadn't been out of bounds, you wouldn't have been manhandled," Zveris pointed out, as gruff as he ever was. "Chokevine's native to the forest. The smell and movement was that, although the eyes..."

Zveris offered only a shrug. "A creature that's developed a symbiotic relationship with it perhaps. Something new, but without a strong animal smell, it's hard to say what it was."

It could even have been some kind of a shifter, although Zveris doubted it.

"Chokevines are what they sound like. They're a plant that devours anything it can reach. A human without enhanced strength will be unable to free themselves, will be strangled to death, and then used as fertilizer for the plant."

He wasn't going to beat around the bush. Not when it was a matter of life or death.

 
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Katarina listened with actual interest. "Cool," she replied, looking back towards the deeper part of the woods again. "I mean, death isn't super fun, but like...that's kind of a cool creature. What else is in there?"

This was a rare occurrence. Kat usually didn't take interest in much of anything, but there were sometimes choice things that would fascinate her. She didn't look like it with her blonde hair and good looks, but Kat was actually rather scholarly. She enjoyed learning new things...when the topic interested her. She read more books than anyone probably realized. Maybe she should see if there was an encyclopedia of monsters in the library or something.​
 
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Zveris was wary of her interest, to say the least, and he regarded her with obvious suspicion. He didn't even try to hide it, folding his arms over his chest as he spoke.

"If I tell you, are you going to go try and poke your nose into shit and get in trouble again?" He asked. He certainly wasn't going to tell her if she was. He had a hard enough time keeping people out of the forest as it was.

 
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She returned his look with an amused one of her own. "Probably not, I've had enough excitement for one day," she told him after several moments of consideration. "Hell, it might even prevent me from ever going in there again. It'd be enough to just hear about what's in there rather than trying to find stuff out for myself."

Kat leaned against a nearby tree and folded her arms across her own chest, mimicking his stance with a more relaxed one. "So? What else is in there?" she pried, waiting to hear about all the monsters and creepy crawlies that stalked around in the deep dark scary forbidden forest.​
 
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Zveris wasn't sure if he believed her, but at the very least she had paused, and sharing information on it all might get her to stay away...

"Lots of normal animals. You have two tailed foxes, which are aggressive and kill housepets. Chokevine, which you've met. Then they brought in vine-eater moths to eat the chokevine, but they also destroy crops so they introduced giant spiders to kill the moths, and synthesis flowers... God, they're a fucking piece of work. It's like a six foot tall flower and they'll fucking convince you to climb in, and if you do it goddamn converts you into a flower zombie."

Which was really fucked up, to say the least.

"And what you'd expect. Werewolves who go feral when shifted, some less intelligent ogres, and who the fuck knows what in the deepest parts."

 
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Kat listened with clear interest as he listed all of the creepy crawlies that lived in the deep and forbidden parts of the forest. This was better than anything she learned in her classes, or from books. She was obviously fascinated by the creatures that the man described to her. It was like a whole new world that she'd never known about.

"Cool," she said softly, her eyes glimmering. "Do you, like...teach classes on this kind of stuff or something?" She'd certainly take one, if only for the fun of it. Kat wasn't a particularly studious person in general, but when something interested her, she wanted to know everything there was to know about it. Language was something that interested her, which was why she was an English major; reading and writing and knowing the ins and outs of how to compose a sentence...damn, she was kind of a nerd, wasn't she?​
 
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Zveris raised an eyebrow at the idea him teaching, clearly wondering if she was poking fun at him before realizing she wasn't.

"No," he said firmly. "I got a briefing on the shit that could eat students if they're idiots who try and go into the forest so I'd know what to do. The Academy doesn't exactly advertise it, but we've absolutely lost students in the forest before, which is why we go out of our way to explain to people that it's dangerous and they aren't to go there."

Zveris paused, giving Kat a pointed look in the hope she'd catch on that he was talking about her and her stupid decision to run around in a forest that was clearly off limits.

"Don't get caught there again or you'll end up shipped off to juvie island for your own damn good."

 
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Okay, now he was just insulting her. Kat gave him a look as he pointed his words at her. She snorted and held up her hands, "Fine, fine. I won't. Damn, you school staff are all alike. Such sticklers for the rules, all work and no play. It's boring and dumb."

She was losing interest in this conversation very quickly since he'd decided to have an attitude with her. "I've got better things to do, anyways. I'll be going on my way," she shrunk down into her feline form and meowed at Zveris before trotting away towards the school to find something more interesting than sit and be talked at by some boring dude who took his job way too seriously.​
 
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