"Yeah. You should've roomed with Valeria when she was young. I always managed to get her with pranks. Except she never thought the frogs were gross. She just wanted to either keep them as pets or dissect them to see how they worked." He chuckled slightly.

"It's good flying weather, actually." Franklin had been considering going out for a bit of a fly himself. "But yeah, Rose seems like the sort that's hard to sucker. And even harder to gross out.

And well, it's grading, but it's more getting ready for the big push in September. More work now while I have more time means I don't have to work quite as hard then." He shrugged. "Personally, I'd take grading papers and doing lesson plans over an attack by Mr. Sinister but I'm boring like that."

He pushed his candy dish forwards. "Candy?"