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Glancing over at Xul'Bryn, Kyriel recoiled as if he thought the Drow would hit him from across the room. Mostly, Kyriel disliked how the dark Elf continued to make it sound like he was the good guy in all of this. Sure, he had saved him from the other three, but at least they tended to restrain themselves from using magic or causing too much bodily harm. Even if he had one good deed under his belt, he was no less a villain than the other three in Kyriel's mind.

"I was in a tree and he knocked me down. Using magic." Kyriel began hurriedly, hoping to get this all out in as few breaths as possible. He jerked his head to indicate that he was currently talking about Grylle, though he did not dare look over at the boy. The magic part he found important since there were campus restrictions, when not in appropriate classes, about using it. "I-I ran and they chased me until I ran into him." He nodded toward Bryn. That part seemed to hardly be part of the story to Kyriel, but he had done this a thousand times before and knew how valuable every piece of information was to people trying to help him. "I ran again and they found me again." Another nod toward the three boys. "They wrestled me to the ground but th-then the Drow fought them off with magic." He finally graduated from pronouns, but he felt no reason to use named. "I was going to go but then he started bullying me too so I got mad and... tried to hit him but h-he was too fast." It was not quite a lie to exclude the part about him using magic, though he felt that his usage was slightly more justified, being self-defense, in a way. If the principal asked, he was definitely not going to deny it. He had been punished before for things, so it was not too huge of a deal.

From their seats to the side of him, Kyriel could tell that Grylle and his gang were trying hard not to make comments or laugh about his occasional stuttering. Kyriel was mostly glad that he had not known them when he was younger and the stuttering came with almost every sentence. At least now that he was older it was only when he was nervous or pressured.