"That's one way of putting it," Lea said with a sigh, but accepted the handshake. "My way would probably be a good bit less polite than that, but I'll spare you that potential rant."

"So far today I've been magically kidnapped, told that if I don't learn to use this world's magic I'd eventually die in a likely very icky way, gotten into an argument about this rat they wanted to give me, run into some nut who said he's the art teacher, and gotten lost looking for the dorm," he said. "So yeah, I don't think my stay here is exactly off to a stellar start."