"HEY! GET UP LAZY-ASS! THIS IS IMPORTANT DAMN IT!"

Havi woke up possibly more relaxed than ever before. So he stayed laying in his chair, unwilling to give up the bliss that was sweet unconsciousness.

"DON'T YOU FUCKING IGNORE ME! WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED YESTERDAY?!"

Havi frowned and tried desperately to ignore the woman screaming at him. More bangs threatened to break his door and he figured that she'd been told to quiet down, but he was unsure if that was a good or bad thing. With Clarissa you could never know.

"Okay then," she said in a false calm. "I guess I'll just go and get my ax if you don't really need this door here anyway."

Havi sighed and moved to open the door, revealing Clarissa standing there with her arms crossed over her chest. She was glaring at him in that way friends do when they're only ticked at you rather than being full-blown pissed off.

"Good morning," she said with a grin.

Havi grunted and rolled his eyes. He moved back inside his office and sat back down on his now not-as-comfortable-as-before chair and allowed her in.

"You've got a lot of explaining to do," she continued after she shut the door behind her. "Just what the heck happened yesterday after class?"

Havi shrugged.

"Don't give me that! First I'm called away for some 'urgent business'," her tone making it obvious that it was nothing of the sort, "and when I return I find Professor Haleceles in the destroyed classroom saying that you had to take that poor student to the infirmary! And to top that off, when I came here early to question you about it, I found that same student lying on the ground outside your office!"

Havi's eyebrows rose at that last piece of news. "Where is he now?" he asked distantly.

"I took him back to the infirmary," she replied. "He looked horrible. Just what happened?! I deserve an explanation!"

"You really don't," Havi replied coldly, "but I will still supply you one. After class he and I discussed the problem of sleeping during classes and then parted ways. I found him later unconscious on the ground and took him to the infirmary. I didn't know the classroom was destroyed until just now."

Clarissa's eyes narrowed. "Do you think I'm an idiot? Give me the truth."

Havi looked directly into her eyes and said, "That is the truth." He didn't like lying to her but it had to be done. No one would believe the truth, and he didn't want anyone to know that didn't have to know. "But you said you found him lying outside my door? Was there no one watching him in the infirmary? They're supposed to always have someone awake."

Clarissa shrugged. "I haven't asked them yet."

"More like interrogated," Havi commented. With a sigh he stood up again. "Then we might as well check on the kid. See if he's alright and ask why he was outside my office."

Clarissa smiled at him. "So you do have a heart."

He ignored her and got out of his chair. He locked the door behind them as they left, depressed that he hadn't been allowed to sleep any longer. But the clarity in his thoughts that sleep had given him was very useful for trying to figure everything out. He was able to recall all of his recent dreams and connect them in a way that made sense. There were a lot of missing pieces, but they finally seemed like more than a collection of random memories.

Clarissa was taking again as she normally was. "Things have just been so weird lately. Well I guess weird is a bad word to use, but scary isn't right either. With those murders that started on campus, and now a student being mysteriously assaulted, it seems like something out of a novel. You agree with me right? I mean, the police don't even have any main suspects.

Havi closed his eyes and followed behind her, only contributing to her one-sided conversation when it was necessary. Instead he focused on deciding how to figure out how much the student knew about what was really going on.