Kurumi only slightly registered that Treyen had sat down next to her and his initial greeting went entirely in one ear and out the other. It was only when he asked her if she was alright that it really sunk in that he was there. All she could do was shake her head and look back at her parchment.

She usually loved Arithmancy. One of her favorite subjects...but not today. Now she wished she had stayed in bed with the covered pulled up high over her head and Walnut attempting to cheer her up by purring on the pillow beside her head.

When Professor Hadley officially started the lesson and asked what sort of families there were. Kurumi nearly lost it and shut her eyes tight for just a moment, passing it off hopefully that she was just thinking. She needed to think of something far and away from what images the word family brought to her mind. She couldn't even look Professor Hadley in the face right now.

Slowly...she raised her hand, eyes still on her parchment and waited for her turn to speak. "A family is a taxonomic rank," she said softly, lowering her hand as she finished.