Nikolai woke up to the weirdest sensation he had ever felt in his life.
When he saw the fairly huge black hairy face licking his face all over, Nikolai almost jumped backwards.
"What the... What?" He paid more attention as he regained full control over his senses.
What looked like just a black hairy face before, was in truth a fairly huge black puppy head with golden eyes that licked Nikolai from top to bottom, only stopping when the boy finally woke up.
"He's a cutie, isn't he?" He heard Evellyn's voice behind him.
She was sitting on the ground alongside Cinthia, and there was another person there with them.
"The cutest, big and strong." Rodrick said, with the biggest smile on his face, as he walked towards the puppy to scratch behind his ears.
"But where did he come from?" Nikolai asked. "And where is Kurt? Why are we so far from the dorm? I remember..."
"The screech." Cinthia said.