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After walking into the light, all noises stopped. For a while, she could hear nothing and feel nothing, just floating. It's kinda familiar if you think about it. It was like how it was when the accident happened. Time slowed as all the noise of the terrified people from below dimmed, and she lost consciousness.
The next thing she knew she was in a box of some sort, it was pitch black and kind of claustrophobic. She reached up to touch her face, hoping for it to be how it was before the accident. What she felt were the same features of the doll's head she had. Why did she still not know who she was? Did she have a soul again? It's not like she could remember her name or who she was still. She would always be a mystery.
Well, there was not much she could do about it right now. Turning her attention back to the situation she was in. Was she in a grave? If she was, she would have to get someone's attention in order to not die again. But if she did, they would freak out since, well, she didn't have a head when she died.
Wait, why would she be standing up if she was in a grave? Whatever she should at least try to escape, right? Yeah, she should. Looking down, she saw her doll. She picked it up and tried pushing the wall in front of her open.
It took a few tries, but she eventually pushed it open. The first thing she saw was the thing she pushed, which was in the shape of a coffin. Huh, maybe she was back in uranium. Well, that's what she thought until she stepped out of the coffin and looked around to see many people all wearing the same outfit staring at her. Some were alarmed and others were surprised. There were a few people whispering, but other than that, it was completely silent.
Is this really where Karnak put her? Here? Behind her was a large mirror floating above a fountain with floating coffins. Now where was she!? What kind of place was she put in?
A tall person with a bird mask and strange accessories walked towards her.
"Oh my, a student emerging from the gate on their own? You must be inpatient."
Jane tilted her head slightly in curiosity. Why did he look like that? She had many questions but could voice none of them but one.
"Where am I?" her hollow voice echoed in the room.
"Why are you at Night Raven College! Have you not regained full consciousness yet?"
Night Raven College? That's not a name she had ever heard, but it's not like she had heard of many things. The choir was the only thing she could remember that she had done in her life. It was unknown to her how long she had done it for, since none of them seemed to remember her or who she was.
After a prolonged silence, Crowley just decided that it was her turn to get sorted into a dorm, ignoring the fact that she was not wearing the entrance ceremony robes and the fact that she was clearly a girl.
"Well! We have our last student here. Go ahead and state your name."
After he said that, Jane turned her head to the mirror rather than fully face it. She didn't have a name. How would it work? Would they just accept 'Jane Doe'? Well, there's only one way to find out.
A face appeared in the mirror. It felt like it was staring at her even though it had no eyes.
"State your name"
"Jane Doe"
There was a silence that followed for a few seconds after she said that.
"You must state your real name."
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"I do not know my name."
"Well. I do not sense a soul nor magic therefore no dorm will fit."
Whispering started again after that was said. Jane looked at the tall man and the crowd of people. Magic? She knew she had no soul but magic that existed in the world she had been sent to. The closest she got to doing magic was in her song when Karnak made her fly.
"What! That is unheard of! Why would the mirror choose a magicless student?"
As she was about to say something about that, something flew through the window, landing in front of them.
"If they can't attend, let me take their place!"
A cat-like creature with blue fire admitting from its ears said.
The people around them started to laugh and talk about how ridiculous it was for a monster to attend the school. Jane kneeled down and looked at it curiously.
"What human!"
Cats... It reminded her of Ricky's song. She wondered if he would have liked the creature.
"Are you a cat?"
"What!? I'm not a cat, you stupid human! I am the great mage grim! I'll show you how powerful I am!"
Grim then proceeded to start spitting fire everywhere. Everyone in the room started screaming and running towards the exit. Jane was sort of panicked, but after losing her head and escaping death, you tend to be less terrified of things.
"Someone put these flames out!"
She moved towards the exit quickly. There was a crowd of people trying to move out, making it so she was blocked in.
Forced to stay in, she found an area where there was no fire. Somewhere along the way she dropped her doll and it was currently on fire. She moved as fast as her body allowed and put out the fire on it.
Sadly, most of it burned so it was unsaleable still she held what was left of it.
"SILENCE!"
She looked over at where the voice came from to see a small person with red hair holding a pen. The person yelled other things that she couldn't make out with all the surrounding noise before a heart-shaped collar landed on her grim neck. The fire proceeded to die down.
"Huh? What'd you put on me!? I'll just burn it off!"
Grim tried to use his magic only to have no fire come out.
"What did you do to my magic!?"
"A rose hearts UM is truly wonderful! He can seal anyone's magic with that collar. Now someone take this thing out."
A few students came over and grabbed Grim while he was screaming at them to let him down. The rest of the students left. The tall man from before turned to her with the chainsaws on him, making noises.
"Well, now Jane, let's get you home since I can let you attend this school."
Jane turned to him and walked over. Home? Would home be uranium? Does uranium even exist here?
The man turned to the mirror.
(he says whatever it is to take a person back home cuz I can't remember)
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"No such place exists"
"What? Say, child, What country do you hail from?"
"Canada."
"Where? I've never heard of a 'Canada' before. Are you joking with me?"
"No, that is where I am from."
"That is quite odd."
Jane turned to look at him with her usual blank face.
"Well, it seems like you can not get home and, as I am ever so kind, I can allow you to stay in a building that is no longer in use for the time being until you get home, since it would pain me to leave you out here in the cold. Oh how a marvelously kind man I am!"
He continued to go on about how good he was for the next few minutes as they walked to the abandoned dorm. She still had her headless burnt-up doll in her arms. It seemed the man still hadn't taken a good look at her yet, considering when they stopped walking, and he looked at her, he looked uneasy. Well she literally had a doll head why wouldn't he be a little uneasy?
"Well, then this is the dorm."
He told her, gesturing towards the old dorm that was clearly falling apart.
"You can follow me inside."
He then walked inside the building with her trailing behind. It definitely didn't look like something that was safe.
While walking, she heard giggling coming from around her. Then suddenly a chandelier fell in front of her, stopping her from walking. A group of three ghosts appeared in front of her.
"A new person we can haunt!"
"I think this will be fun!"
The ghosts said, trying to scare her, but she just tilted her head in curiosity.
"Huh? Is she not scared of us?"
"Aw, it's been so long since we've had company."
The ghosts backed up and floated away.
"Oh yeah, and there are some ghosts that have taken up residence here pay them no mind."
She thought about the choir. Were they ghosted now? What even happened to them? They continued to walk a little more until he stopped and turned around to face her.
"Since you are the school's responsibility, you may be provided with a living place, but I can not just let you have everything for free."
She just nodded to what he said.
"So you will be in charge of cleaning the school, And you will have access to the school library to research ways back to your home. You may choose any room you want to sleep in."
He left the dorm after that, leaving her to walk up the stairs and look for a room to sleep in. She found a room that was fine enough. She lay in bed and went to sleep.