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Hera 
Nodding, smiling and greeting the students as they arrived proved to be - as usual - a satisfying experience. The finality of the summer holidays had been difficult to come to terms with, just because being lazy, sitting in the sunshine and observing the behaviours of flesh-eaters was the perfect use of her time.
Doing a quick head count, Seren figured it was about time to get the ball rolling. If there were any late comers, they could deal with her later.
"Hello everyone! Welcome to our first lesson of the term. I hope you're all well rested after the summer holidays. For returning students welcome back, and for new students... welcome. I'm Professor Bentley, I trust you're all familiar on the classroom rules." She paused here to eyeball a few students whom appeared to be trouble makers. Mmhhmm. Rules. Follow them.
"This term, our unit of study will be herbs. Can anybody have a guess at how we might define a herb?"
And just before he was about to start chatting away to Blue, the professor began the lesson. Woah, he really did get there at just the right time! Now, the lesson.
Herbs. That didn't sound so tricky.
Theo raised his hand into the air, feeling pretty certain with himself. "
I don't know much about herbs, only that you make 'em in the garden and then lots of them are used on food to make them taste nice and herb-y..." 'Herby' was a perfectly good describing word, by the way. He was pretty sure that EVERYONE would know the herby taste that he was talking about. Theo liked his herbs, only not the spicy ones of course, cos they gave him wind.