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tvd / nysm } { the salvatore school for the young and gifted

Nestled just on the outskirts of the tiny town of Mystic Falls, Virginia is the Salvatore School for the Young and Gifted. As far as most of the town is concerned, the school is exactly how it's marketed - a boarding school for rich and gifted students - but a few are aware of it's real origins.
A school for young supernatural students, so that they can grow up somewhere where they didn't have to hide.
The headmaster is actually much older than she looks, having not aged a day since she was seventeen, but she's learned to dress herself up to fit the part. Her long hair is swept up into an elegant twist, her pant suit is perfect and polished, and her makeup is appropriately adult. Still, there's not a lot that can hide the youthfulness of her features no matter how hard she tries.
She's standing at the front of the school, watching as the car pulls up in front before flashing the man who arrives a bright smile and wave. Once he emerges from the car, she waves and makes her way closer to shake his hand.
"Mr. Rhodes. Welcome to the Salvatore School."
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Caroline's not really concerned because she also knows that the kids are nosy enough that if he gets into anything he shouldn't, he'll have a cluster of students on him fast enough to keep him from doing anything too crazy.
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Either way, after a beat, he adds, "Thanks for the tour." And then he's turning away, heading at first aimlessly, then more purposefully back towards the classrooms. Maybe he'll talk to some of the other teachers here, see how much of the Kool-Aid they're drinking. That seems like a good place to start, he thinks.
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There are other various teachers, on various spectrums of the supernatural world, but these are the ones that the show has told me about so these are the options Dylan can choose from.
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"Hi. Can I help you find something?"
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A beat.
"So, you liking it here, so far?" He did mention having questions, right?
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Did he mention he's still a little paranoid this is somehow going to bite him in the ass, hence him sniffing around a little? How about the part where, if this does turn out to be some kind of trap, he's going to get all of the werewolf kids out, even if he has to go down with the ship to do it?
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And also they've had differences on curriculum, but that's more Dorian being wary of how far these kids should go, while also acknowledging that when Ric is picking spells for witches, it's only going to go so far in protecting them.
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A moment of pause follows, more than as he takes a moment to mull things over, and then finally, he lets out a breath of a laugh, though the sound is largely without humor. He shakes his head, too, before he explains, asks, "This place really is just a school for kids like us, huh?"
This place really is what Caroline says it is, no tricks.
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For this to be some kind of trap, if not for him than for the kids. Either way. But this all feels on the level and he can't smell the lie on Dorian, so maybe not. Maybe this is real, vampire headmistress or not.
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The best she can, in whatever way she can.
"I guess it's up to you whether or not you want to buy in."
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And then he will go back to that research he was doing, but he doesn't seem too bothered by the fact that he was interrupted. Probably because the teenagers tend to do it all the time.
Now Dylan is free to choose his own adventure again: another teacher or poking at one of the students?
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Dealer's choice as to which kid he ends up talking to.
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"Mr. Rhodes? Ms. Forbes sent me. She's getting a little tied up with administrative things but I can pick up the tour and take you if there's anything else you want to see." Then after a pause, he holds out a hand. "Milton Greasley. Most people call me MG."
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"Nice to meet you," he offers as he takes his hand back. A shrug follows, and then, "And I'm still trying to get a feel for the campus, so ... I don't know. Take me somewhere you think I should see?"
He doubts that'll gain him entrance to any secret, evil torture chambers, if there are any around here, but maybe he can give this place the benefit of the doubt. Maybe he's more curious, now, as to what the students here value.
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He's never seen a vampire do magic, but -- well, he's pretty sure that, excluding Hope, no one's seen a werewolf do magic, either, and yet here he is. For all he knows, he just hasn't run into the right kind of vampire. For all he knows, all vampires are the 'right' kind for magic, he just never got so far as to let them try anything on him, in a fight or otherwise.
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He doesn't seem all that bothered by it, though. Being a vampire is hard enough. He hadn't known anything about the supernatural world before he became one.
"But, sometimes I'll volunteer to be target practice or help Josie or Lizzie with their spell work. They, on the other hand, are actual siphons, and vampires are handy magic batteries."
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A pause follows, as the kid continues, and then he snorts. That's -- slightly horrifying, but then again, this is a man whose own magic, beyond just being a werewolf, was hard won by his pack. Hands off his magic, please.
He is sort of morbidly curious in spite of himself, however, and so, after a beat, he asks, "That kinda thing tire you out? Being the Energizer Bunny or whatever?"
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Granted, they could desiccate him if they really wanted to, but Josie and Lizzie are his friends. They wouldn't do that.
"Plus it gets us used to it, in case they need to siphon us in the field." And by in the field, he means in case something goes wrong in Mystic Falls.
Because this is, at the end of the day, Mystic Falls.
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