4) Of Rabbits and Amphibians.

The rest of the week was much like her first day with similar lesson and frequently getting into trouble for her rather impertinent remarks and a certain episode with a frog. By the end of the week, she had been sent to the First Daughter, much to Maude's dismay.

"Sit down Alanna. It has been brought to my attention that you have been disrupting classes."

Alanna had certainly been doing that – although her comments were rude, they were not all that disruptive but the fact that she brought a frog with her to an etiquette lesson were just a tad troublesome – since the Daughter in charge was a stereotypical, well brought up lady, she did not appreciate the presence of a slimy green amphibian croaking in her class and showed her dislike with a sequence of ear splitting screams. But of course, in Alanna's view, she had not disrupted the class at all – the Daughter did.

"I would like to inform you that being disruptive and rude will not be tolerated here. For the following weeks, you will have an extra five hours of study each week until I have received reports of improvement in your conduct." She sighed. "Why is it that only Trebonds cause trouble?"

Alanna couldn't think of a suitably polite answer and so viewed it safest to stay silent.

"Thom, as I am sure you are aware has making a nuisance of himself. I hope that you will not be influencing Saethea in any way, shape or form. She was an ideal lady before you arrived."

Alanna had to bite her cheek to stop herself smirking at her brother being called a "nuisance", since it didn't really do Thom justice – he had not been getting on very well with some of his teachers and decided to take the opportunity to pull a couple of pranks.

He had decided to take advantage of his literature teacher's reliance on reading glasses and put a charm on them - every time the Daughter tried to read with her glasses on, the glasses would make the writing blur. This caused a couple of interesting lessons where the Daughter produced a wide range of different faces as she tried to squint at the book in front of her nose.

Another rather bright idea of Thom's was to spell a boy who had taken a liking to bullying Thom and caused him to see a six-foot, bright pink rabbit every time the word "carrot" was mentioned. Of course you would quite reasonably assume that since the word "carrot" is not used often, it wasn't all that bad, but you would be wrong: a nickname for Thom that had caught on was "carrot top"...

This caused quite a few interesting situations in which the boy would suddenly run around like a headless chicken and scream something about a "pink killer rabbit" being after him. Of course these antics started off quite amusing to Thom, but since the boy ran headlong into a door, which he hadn't realised was locked and broke his nose, Thom's outlook changed. He was now in somewhat serious trouble.

These stories spread like wildfire and Thom had now become known of a sort of "Prank Master", but he paid dearly for the title; he now had the pleasure of mucking out the convent stable for the next three months. But the punishment given to him for his antics were nothing compared to the tongue-lashing Coram gave him when he found out.

"A SIX FOOT PINK RABBIT?"

He would bellow until he turned spotty purple, and then only stop to gasp in a breath before merely continuing as Thom cowered behind a solid object.

Alanna had felt a little guilty since she had been the one to suggest using visions again, but she was definitely not going to own up when Coram was in such a state.

A/N: What do you think? More interesting? I know this chapter is a bit short but hopefully the contents make up for it... The plot will be carried on in the next chapter - I just thought I might brighten it up a bit after chapter 3...