Liliana Vess Defiant Necromancer

Nonsense. These were his people. Liliana didn't want, need, or even understand friendship, and so there. Just ask Jace Beleren!

Having no qualms about leaving the others to their own devices for a bit, Liliana escorted Ignis around the commons, first walking the perimeter so he could get an idea of the vastness of the space, and then winding inward as a leisurely pace, stopping every so often to provide him with a tidbit or other from her time here. This bench had been replaced in her fourth year after a mage duel at midnight had gotten out of hand, this waist-high hedgemaze hadn't been intended to be a hedgemaze, but some drunken Quandrix students had decided that it would be more fun if it were and had cast spells to make it so. Even though the bushes were only waist height outside, they towered above one's head within, the Quandrix trick of folding and embiggening space on full display. And then she'd gotten to demonstrate to him how this hedgemaze was often used, tugging him into a small nook of a dead end and kissing him deeply - several times - before leading him back out.

...She might be able to remember the names of the five Founder dragons easily, but she couldn't remember the name (or even the number) of people she'd kissed in the hedgemaze in the Commons.

At last, they ended up sitting on the edge of the fountain, Liliana telling him about the debate of the statue standing within. "Some people say that it's a statue of the first Voice of the Dragons," she explained. "They don't really have the temperament to be involved with the school as a whole and generally prefer to leave the running of the Colleges to the Deans of their individual schools. But sometimes, if the Deans can't agree or it's something that affects multiple colleges, the Voice of the Founders will step forward for the last say. And this statue was built for the first person appointed to that position, but the proximity to the star arch has weathered away its features so it's impossible to know more about them. Others say that it's a deliberately ambiguous figure - any gender, any race, any type of magic user - a testament to the potential of all Strixhaven students." She laughed. "It's a very stupid debate and one easily solved with just a bit of research, but we've all collectively decided that it's more fun to argue about it than learn the answer. Which is, of course, the third possibility - that it's here to be a bit of a mystery, to remind us to always question even that which seems obvious and debate with our peers, even over the most nonsensical of things, keeps us sharp."