Tones of Grey (Lady Lesso x OC)

The Red Beaked Crow

Sofía's POV:

Appearing in the middle of Clarissa's classroom, I sat down at the desk in front of the teacher, as usual. My mind couldn't stay still for a second ever, so I had to sit there if I wanted to pay attention. Professor Dovey popped in there just a few minutes after, with Agatha.

"Told you. Just a few seconds." said Clarissa. "How did it go with Professor Sheeks and Lesso?"

"After saving Hester's demon from being stung by thousands of bees by turning myself into a bee myself and twerking, they gave me my rightful '1'." I said. Both of them looked at me confused.

"Where did all the bees come from?" asked Professor Dovey.

"And why did you have to twerk?" added Agatha. I liked her priorities.

"Sophie's talent seems to be calling for animals. But not pretty ones in the end. She wanted squirrels and all of those bees appeared." I said, and shivered. "I hate bees, I have a huge fear towards them. Apart from that, bees communicate by dancing with their ass, so I did that to have their attention as one of their own."

"Clever."

"That's what Sheeba said, yes. I can tell you more about it after class, Rissa, I think I hear the rest coming."

Beatrix was the one leading the group. As they came in, Professor Dovey started her lesson about Good Deeds. She talked about how helping others was something that made us different from Evil, that such a selfless act was important for Good to be conceived as such. Then, our asignment came in. We were supposed to tell a Good Deed we had done in our lives. Of course, everyone could make up a story, so we had to put our hand in some trasparent liquid that it would turn white if we were telling the truth or black if we were lying.

I got excited because I thought I would finally at least hear about the true goodness in that School. But then again, my hopes were far too high.

"I thanked a man for holding the door for me."

"I let a prince throw his coat over a puddle so I could walk safely."

"I helped my mom to make a blanket for my horse."

And such stupid things. After a few more girls, it was finally Beatrix's turn.

"I left a coin in the hat of a poor man once." she said, and everyone gasped and applauded. Really? I snorted. I watched Clarissa's reaction and noticed that even if there was still a smile on her lips, it was a very much fake one. So I put into words what she was thinking.

"Are you fucking serious?" I said, in unison with Agatha. We looked at each other and smiled.

"Have you two done something better, Beast and Reader?" she said.

"Oh, let me think. Hm, I'm not sure, I pretty much doubt there's something more worthy of being called a good deed than leaving a single coin for a man in need ONCE." I replied sarcastically.

"Well, then you two show us how Good you truly are then."

I let Agatha go first. She explained how her mother and her used to make medicine for her village and didn't charge the ones in economic trouble. I barely noticed, and I'm sure no one else did, but the liquid glowed for a second. Dovey looked at us, with hope. I stood up and walked towards the bowl of that truth liquid. I put my hand in it and waited a few seconds to start.

"What? You forgot all the good deeds you did? Or is it that you never actually did anything?" Beatrix asked.

"Oh, no. I was just thinking which one of them I should tell, I just have so many. You set the bar so low I can literally say anything and it would look like a good deed. May I tell more than one, Professor Dovey? I mean, it looks to me that they need to actually know what a good deed looks like." I asked her, and she gladly nodded.