Lainey came around the corner with her wand out. "Did you HEAR THAT?" SomeTHING was in this corridor, she was SO SURE of it.


And she wasn't wrong. There were ... things in the hall. A student, a dog (the noise), and a student that had turned into a professor.


"Suppose this makes me the TinMan," she mumbled and struck a frozen pose.


Sure that made perfect sense. What any and every sane person would do.