“This is Niccolo di Angelo, he’ll be joining us for the rest of the school year,” you heard your teacher lazily explain, the words sounding fuzzy as the went in one ear and out the other.

You decided to look up from your paper you had so adamantly had been doodling on. What else was there to do here?

You were met with, well, a kid. They were olive skinned and shuffling some cards in his hands. What were they? They don’t look like a normal deck.

Of course, in true fashion of the ‘new kid trope’, he was assigned a seat directly at your left. Shame, you liked using that seat to hold your bag. Whatever.

He turned to you halfway through your teachers lecture, grinning. He took out his deck of cards, which you could now see had some..monsters? on them.

“Hey, do you want to play Mytho magic?”