The same panels floated in: the picture was of the same styling as the others, but obvious because it was far newer, the picture was of better quality and of obviously newer tech in comparison to the first ones. It was also a woman in the photo, tall and lean with almost extended looking limbs and long, thin features, hair wrapped up in a dark green hijab styled like a turban, dressed in this elaborately decorated green blouse with embroidery, embossing, beading and everything else, high necked and long sleeved with a high waisted long dark green skirt deeply pleated over ornate slippers and a hand in an elegant upwards gesture showing her hand like her body was covered in silvery jewelry and long red painted nails like claws adorned her hand. “Founded by Qisma el-Fidda, an Iranian born scholar, she founded the house of the instigators, those who drive for change, to be different, those who find their fit in having no place they blend in. Sociable, curious and balanced, but direction-less, vain and oblivious, charming and orderly, but a tease at times. There the house stands for the people who want nothing more…than to change, to adapt and to cause difference.” I read before shaking my head softly as I clicked the arrow. The badge that showed was silver edged with a black base with a serpent wrapped into an ouroboros in the center.

            The house was without a doubt the most modern looking home compared to the others, odd because of how much older it was than the previous houses based on what I read earlier. The house was the same height, about three stories, but walled in polished white painted masonry, thin, narrow black pillars along the edges of the floors, corners and outlined any and all projections, there were projections, overhangs and juts galore across the building, all framed in black, flat roofs softly angled and made of sleek black metal, but everywhere there was metal was plants: vines growing along the walls or hanging over the edges, roses in reds and white spotting the walls along with weirdly silver toned flowers along the corners, huge modern styled industrial windows covering the walls like it was a converted warehouse, a few large balconies adorned the walls and small, narrow chimney poked past the top at weird angles including a very wide front door of thick glass, adorned with black framing and black serpents bolted onto the front flanked by serpent shaped lights and three large yew trees grew close with massive white canopies covering the building in shade. A small pop-up showed when the house came into view, “Despite the age of the house, Silver Serpent is unique in that it’s founder allowed the house to be adapted and modernized as the house persisted where as other houses stayed in their ways or were made to blend in.”

            “Makes sense for the house for people who want to stand out. Nope. So…hopefully, the last one fits me.” I said as I clicked back to the plaza before clicking the last arrow, a deep pink in color. The badge that showed was bronze edged with a dark pink badge with a bronze spider emblazed across it. The same panel’s popped up: the one on the right was the most modern looking photo of a petite African figure with deep, rich skin and long dreadlocked hair adorned with masses gold jewelry, dressed in rich, wrapped and elegant, elaborate grab in deep pinks, golds and ivory tones, a sharp and cunning expression with hands folded showing massive rings littering each finger. “Lastly, the youngest house formed by Anansi Volk, the house of Magenta Spider is home to the artists, the creators and inventors: people who haven’t found somewhere they belong, so they create it themselves. Cunning, appreciative and dutiful are the spiders whom walk their webs; careless, resentful and overemotional as they spin their tales, discreet and alert in their work, but manipulative and greedy at their worst. The house of creators, artists, inventors and mages…that is Magenta Spider.” I said before softly tipping my head, “Mages?” I questioned, odd word choice, but this school uses weirder. If anything…this house feels more my style.

            I clicked the arrow again and the house came into view: the same size of three stories, but a resplendent Victorian home, massive bay windows along the front, a few towers and the same wrap-around porch which is the same across the entire ring of houses, all are three stories, have three trees and wrap-around porches. Magenta Spier was of course, magenta in color, with slightly raw edged and uneven shingled walls painted so dark that it nearly looked maroon, blistering white framing and adornments with matching pillars, trims and molding, white framed Victorian windows with a surplus of spider-lilies and spider themed adornments along with other flowers and plants. From the angle of the photo, it almost looked disproportionately too tall and too narrow for its size, but it weirdly…fit. The front door was also too tall looking and painted magenta with an ornate white frame spiraling out into web like designs that merged into the porch’s roof with a huge bronze spider mounted above the door with a panel of magenta glass in the thorax.

            I don’t really…see myself in those negative traits that Magenta Spider says they have, but…the good ones I could easily see in myself and while I like pink, I cannot stand spiders, so I have no idea how comfortable I would be in a house themed after them. Though looking at the houses, I couldn’t help, but thing…this was a weirdly small amount of housing for a college of its size, based on photos I saw it wasn’t a massive school, but it wasn’t tiny, but…eight townhouses realistically could fit maybe…7-8 people a piece, maybe ten 10 if people have roommates…that would only be 50-60 students comfortably, maybe more if they have roommates, but nothing I saw said that was a thing…that would not…be able to sustain itself with only 50 give or take students. A college couldn’t exist with that little students. There were no other houses and I didn’t see something like a block of dorms somewhere, so its not like only the last year students live in the houses. I didn’t see anything about off campus living or off campus housing. This was…all there was. There was a line of smaller townhouses at the back right corner of the school’s rather extensive grounds, but they were labeled as things like the nurses office and other faculty buildings that are better fit as separate buildings like the school’s therapist, there was a multidenominational chapel according to one label and a few other buildings, but…about 60% of the school’s grounds for the most part was just…open by the map; just open greenery and plazas, complexes and gardens. There was an entire section at the front right edged in hedges that said it was the school’s gardens and based on the scale of the map, was about the size of four of the houses put corner to corner to corner. Wait…what’s the full map look like?