[The...the creature paused momentarily, hovering menacingly over the snake table and (more importantly) over a group of very frightened looking freshmen. These feeble creatures were available for study in unending herds. This one was something different.

It turned one of its numerous eyes towards Lux and did something incredibly unnerving: It spoke.]

Or you shall do what? I am most curious to see.

[To encourage her, it reached out with a tentacle and lifted some poor boy by one ankle, allowing him to flail about in panicked fear.]