"You're a ki-ki-ki---" one of your classmates starts stuttering, before Ms. Smith takes pity on him.
"Kitsune." Ms. Smith completes with a smile. "Well, that's the Japanese word for what I am. You can probably tell I'm not Japanese, however," she added with a chuckle.
Ms. Smith's ancestry was definitely among the indigenous peoples of North America, with her smooth reddish-brown skin, long dark straight hair, brown eyes and facial features that were both beautiful and somewhat chiseled.
Ms. Smith also had a busty, fitness physique that would normally make the boys (and some girls) in her homeroom class hope that Ms. Smith was an Instagram model when she wasn't substitute teaching.
The word normally is used here because all these features weren't what was drawing everyone's attention, It was the fact that Ms. Smith was only three foot tall, had two fox ears emerging from her hair and a fox tail from a carefully crafted hole in her slacks that everyone was focused on.
"In the lore of First Nation culture," Ms. Smith continued, "My people have different names. " In the blink of an eye, Ms. Smith was suddenly five foot ten inches tall. Her fox ears and tail had disappeared, as had the strategic hole in her slacks. "For those of you who will be in my sixth period Cultural Studies class, we'll go further in depth about that later in the semester."
"One thing I should warn you all about,": Ms. Smith adds, and it seems that she is focusing her attention on you and Sid, "My people are very good at intercepting tricks and turning them back on the tricksters. Word to the wise."
As Ms. Smith calls roll, you and Sid exchange a look. You both take Ms. Smith's 'words to the wise' as
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