"Yeah, we really should get going." Aryanna starts to walk out the door with Jora and continues to talk. "I'm sure tons of people at this school's pasts aren't all daises and pie, but because the only person i knew outside my family until now was Izzy, with his picture-perfect past, everything seemed worse." She looks at Jora and says with a straight face. "We really should hurry. Knowing Izzy, he was sulking in his monster from and is now going to eat everything in sight. You might not be hungry, but I am, and because you feel sick you should at least drink something. Soooooo" she begins to run sprint at full speed towards the mess hall grabbing Jora's hand," we should probably hurry."


Iysytsya stops fast, startled. "No," he starts to shake his head, "Thank you, but no. I wanna do it myself if I'm going to get Ari to like me, but I'm not. I may like her, but she's opened up to me and became friends with me because I remind her of her older sister." He looks straight into Orion's eyes. "I know she won't ever love me as more than a close friend, and I don't want to ruin our relationship. For me, being near her is enough. Now you and Jora on the other hand.........." he starts to grin "you two haven't known each other for long, so you can take your relationship down the path of only friendship, or the path of friendship and loooooooooooooooooove." He wiggles his eyebrows and grins even bigger. Stepping around Orion he says "let's go, I'm starving!" He walks into the mess hall and stops, stunned by all the food. "Auntie in the stars! There's so much food! OHMIAUNT DO THEY HAVE PEACH PIE WITH CIMMAMON! I LOVE THAT!" He sprints to the nearest table, incidentally the one Astrid and Oceanna are sitting at, and slides into a seat with and excited look on his face. "Come sit here Ori-HEY! YOU! MR.SERVER-MAN! Do you have any peach pie with cinnamon? No, oh, well does anyone else have some? REALLY!? COOL CAN YOU GET HER OVER HERE FOR ME PRETTY PLEASE! Oh, and can I have some of those eggs and toast? Thanks!" Practically bouncing, he starts shoveling food into his mouth. Suddenly remembering Orion, he turns to him and says, grinning,"I really love food if you couldn't tell. Now come sit next to me, I'm not a messy eater." He ignores the stares of a few tables surrounding him and starts shoveling food in his mouth again, stoping every once in a while to ask for more food.


(Oh, and Jade and Bmr? I am getting Jora and Orion together no matter what. I am going to weave a net you can't et out of, and you have to at least like each other. You cannot stop me.)

Orion laughs and sits next to Izzy, grinning, and ignoring Izzy's earlier comment. But if Izzy brought it up again.....He takes some toast and begins to eat slowly, not feeling hungry. He turns to look at the other people at the table. Two girls, one with fox ears, and the other holding a book. They were scanning the room. Wonder who those two are, and what theye doing. Im guessing theye not looking for food since the servers right here. Orion turns his attention back to Izzy. "I can tell you like food. More than dignity," Orion jokes, looking at the stares Izzy's getting. "So.... Besides food, what do you like?" Orion asks, trying to start a conversation. He liked Izzy already. He was funny, and at times, like now, childish, but he also had a mature side.

Astrid turned to the two boys sitting next to them. "What 'bout those two?" she asks Oceanna, as she eats an apple. Those two are like opposites. One's sitting calmly there eating a piece of toast extremely slowly, while the other is yelling for food as he shoves it in his mouth. Plus the one guy is barely talking. And one has blue hair, the other red. That's ironic. She takes another bite of her apple, chewing slowly.

Ember sits in a table near the back, gesturing for A'ine to join her. She takes some eggs and begins to eat, scanning the room warily. Lots of people. Lots and lots of people. Then again, she considered five people a lot of people. They do say that two's a company and three's a crowd, although I doubt they mean it in that way.


(Bmr, you better go along with it. Wee not getting out of this one. I can tell. Although it would be fun to see how Nixie will try to do it.)

Ping. look up.

(I'm going to wait until Bmr replies. She's got one of the important characters too.)

(Dang it Nixie! You read my mind! *Mock anger!*)
Jora was surprised anyone could talk that fast. She felt Aryanna grab her hand and pull her toward the mess hall which sounded noisy even from here. They got to the mess hall and Jora started looking around for Orion and Iysytsya. "Do you see them?" but right when she said them she saw and heard a rather loud Iysytsya. She started walking toward the table that they were sitting at trying to think of things to say to the other people without making them think she's weird.


A'ine sits down with Ember, who was already taking some food. A'ine looked around at all the food and decided to just grab an orange for now. "So Ember, What kinds of music do you like to play? Fiddles are very versatile." A'ine asks trying to keep the conversion going before taking a bite out of her apple

(Harumph! Don't get mad at me for being a psychic. It's rude)


(switch it up, shall we?)

"Well, besides food I love lots of things. Aryanna, obviously, playing with Aryanna, training, running, OH AND PRANKING! I LOVE TO PRANK!" He again ignores the stares from the other tables. "And-oh, hi Jora- I love making others laugh and smile and just all around feel good. And peach pie with cinnamon <3." He gets a dreamy expression on his face and starts to stare into space. "Speak of the devil, here comes that lady the server was talking about before." He turns to address the woman. "Miss, have you got some peach pie with cinnamon? YOU DO! MAY I PLEASE HAVE ONE WHOLE PIE! YAY! THANKS, MISS!" before digging in he turns back to Orion to talk and is cut off by Aryanna. "Izzy, calm down. I know, new people, tons of food. But you're disturbing everyone. If you don't calm down I will make sure none of the servers give you any pie AT ALL for the rest of the week." "Ok, Ari." is Iysytsya's meek reply. he once agin directs his attention to Orion. "And I love my family, especially my aunt. And the constellation Canis Minor. Although that's redundant, isn't it?" He says laughing. "My aunt IS Canis Minor! Confused much? Find the myth." He smiles again before saying "I've been talking for a while, Jora, orion, tell Ari and me about yourselves. Y'know" he starts counting on his fingers "hobbies, favorite activities, past, what you love...." he slyly raises his eyes to look at both of them while an impish grin threatens to grow "......romantic interests.... And please don't find this rude, bu just talk while I eat." Then he begins to eat the pie, slowly for once, savoring it.



Aryanna began to hear the ruckus Izzy was making before she saw the door t the mess hall. Geez, Izzy. I can't even leave you alone for 10 minutes! Oh wait, he was with Orion. ORION! She begins to frown as she stops at the door and enters quietly behind Jora. She sees, or, rather hears, Iysytsya energetically talking to Orion about things he loves surrounded by at least five large plates. Hmm, less than I expected. Orion isn't doing too bad actually. A woman walks up to the table Izzy and Orion are at, shielding Aryanna from view. Then Izzy started going insane over his favorite food, peach pie with cinnamon. Ohhh, now I see. Orion isn't trying to stop Izzy from eating all the food in this room, he's just engaging him in conversation. Izzy doesn't want to be rude, so he's not eating while he's talking to Orion. Iysytsya was about to launch into another loud, excited yell about things he loved before Aryanna cut him off. "Izzy, calm down. I know, new people, tons of food. But you're disturbing everyone. If you don't calm down I will make sure none of the servers give you any pie AT ALL for the rest of the week." That should keep him quiet for a bit. Aryanna sat down at the end of the table, next to Jora, and looked at the other two people at the table. Both seemed stunned. One girl had blue hair and was holding a thick book. Ari squinted at the title. "Book of Plans" she mumbled. Does she have her whole life set up in that book? The other girl had silver ears and a tail, and looked pretty cute and innocent. Maybe another Teumessian fox? Izzy had a tail and ears in his human form when I first met him. He's managed to learn how to control them now, though. Aryanna got a plate of food from the server without looking at it and began to eat and zone out, thinking about her family and past the whole time.



(Oh noes! *slaps hands to cheecks* I'm all out of posts for the day. *wipes away a tear* Let's play the patience game!)

Jora took in a breath trying to decide whether or not to tell these two her past in front of two other people that she didn't even know the names of, she started with all the other questions first, "Well, I like to paint which is the answer to three of your questions. I don't really like doing anything else. I do have a bow that my father gave to me, it's fire proof, unless you break it." She paused for a moment deciding whether or not to tell them of her most prized possession, and decided they seemed like they were the kind of people who would try to steel it. "And my mother gave me a magic, um, well pretty much it's what ever I need for painting, if I need a brush it's a brush, if I need a pencil it's a pencil, and so on." Even though they seemed to not be thieves they still did seem to like to talk.... a lot. And she was afraid they might say something about her past to someone else and that would end a happy day quickly, if it was the wrong kind of person. Jora hoped Orion got the hint not to talk about it because she didn't talk about her past... Or what she was.

Orion caught Jora's glance and gave her a small smile. He decided to direct the attention off her, knowing she didn't seem to like it and said, "I like drawing,swimming, and looking at the sky. You know at night. Weird hobby but, I chart the stars, and also make up my own constellations. No judging." He elbowed Izzy and glared at him, both for his remark earlier, and to make sure he knew that his last statement was directed toward Izzy.He left out his past as well, not sure what to include, and what to exclude. Telling Jora was one thing, telling a group was another. This is a weird bunch. But from what I've seen of these people, I like them. Izzy's pretty cool, and although I don't know Aryanna that well, she obviously cares about people. What secrets do they have? Are their pasts as bad as Jora's? He glanced at Jora, wondering what she was thinking about Izzy and Aryanna. "So, anybody else have something to share?" he asks, grabbing a peach and beginning to eat it slowly. He smiled at Izzy's frantic eating, before resuming his own.


Astrid turned to Oceanna. "You hear that? He likes pranks!" She turned to the small group at the table, wondering if they would think it rude if she joined. Why shouldn't I talk? Misewell try to make some more friends. Something made her hesitate, and she decided to just listen for now. Maybe one of them will join our prank. That one with red hair seems likely. He did yell that he loved pranks. I guess I'll ask him at some point, but not in front of all these people. I don't want this to be too big of a group. Plus I want to make sure Oceanna agrees. Astrid continues eating, flicking her ears to hear the conversation better.


Ember thought a bit. "Well, I play a variety, I haven't really settled on one type," Ember stared out the window, thinking about how good flying sounded to her right now. I could just leave all my troubles and fears behind. But I'd also leave A'ine, and the truth is, I'm scared to be alone. She shivered. As much as she hated crowds and loved solitude, she hated to face her fears alone. But that's what she'd done her whole life. Gosh, it seems like I'm scared of my life. Scared of being with people, yet scared of being alone. Ember shivered. A'ine probably heard that. My thoughts are getting loud. Ember felt so weak. She couldn't remember a time when she wasn't scared of something, and now that the realization of all this hit her, she felt like crying. She turned her head away from Ai'ine so she wouldn't notice her efforts to keep from crying.

(Sorry I'm gonna reply tomorrow I used up my posts and can't think of anything so I'm gonna sleep on it.)

Jora was starting to relax a little. She was glad Orion had started talking like she hoped he would. She grabbed some apple juice from a sever as they past by again. She was starting to feel a little bit better already....and Orion had ended by asking them a question. So now she could sit there and just listen for at least a few second while she listened for two little nos. (The block is back for this post.)
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A'ine heard Embers last thought about how they were getting to 'loud' as A'ine decided to describe tem. And she felt Ember's longing to fly. Then she felt that Ember felt like crying as she turned away from A'ine. A'ine touched her shoulder and turn her to give her a hug. "It's okay." She whispered into Ember's ear, "It's okay to cry sometimes, too." She felt a few people looking at them but she didn't care and she hoped Ember didn't care, either. For the shake of the sea, only three people are actually wondering about it the other four who care enough to think about just assume we're long lost friends!