[ Krouse has the minimal grace to look mildly rueful in a wry, self-deprecating sort of way. ]

It's a display stand for criminals. Dead criminals. Suspended in mid-air. [ Hence the reasonable enough concern about some overlap in terminoloy. ] Fortunately a relic of the ancient past relative to the invention of high school.

[ Maybe Spyre skipped their equivalent historical period's grisly innovations, if that's even where people first came up with the concept. Or maybe Gorgug just never went through a Horrible Histories series phase. Krouse isn't sure the Scholastic book fair tours a lot of other universes. ]

Although that would be a hell of a way to deter academic misconduct. Get your homework in on time, or else...