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Forrest sat down next to her and turned towards her completely. He was, of course, oblivious to the book she was holding, because he directly started talking excitedly.
"I met only a girl, Kahlan, on the boats," he said a little bit rejectedly. "And she visited me at the feast and that's it. Everyone's too busy, I guess..." That was how he tried to comfort himself, actually. The thought that he didn't quite fit in there was much scarier, and he wasn't at that point yet.
He was silent for a moment, being sad all over again. He missed his friends, actually, his real friends back in Riyadh. Then he looked up, because he didn't want to spend another day thinking and missing his family, friends and CLEAN school.
"What's the problem with school?" Referring to her previous statement about 'nice'ness of the school.
It was cool that he met someone on the boats but with his expression she was beginning to not see it as a good thing so she listened on hoping there'd be some kind of explanation. As a Firstie she would practically burst with some kind of unbelievable happiness when she met someone....okay, when she met someone who wasn't an idiot (same thing, really) so she couldn't help but think that he should have been a little happier.
That explained it...
"I guess the castle has been a little busy this term. Not much time to settle in with all this cleaning some of us have to be doing," Paying just to have to clean your own Common Room. Madness really.
"Doesn't matter though. Everyone's forced into the same place for classes, you can make more friends there--so long as you don't talk too much and have the Professor get upset." Yeah...experience told her that that wasn't such a grand idea.
Lex thought over his question, the answer needed to be a complete one but at the same time she didn't want him getting any more discouraged.
"Well, it's just, everything was super clean and pretty last year. The food was good and I never had to spread my own bed. This year's real different. I wish you had come here a year sooner so you could see. Basically now that the school's broke, everything is automatically worse." Surely he'd tasted the food!!!