She did not jump only because she smelled cat-and-woman, but the blue eyes she turned on Khemrys were unattractively huge. "Salamanders," she said in a calm voice with a hint of that whine still inside it, "are unpredictable at the best of times. They have bad tempers. Or Doctor Lee does, anyway, and he says he's pretty calm for Salamanders. This is not my classroom."