This was a good choice then, that was good. Toby straightened a little from the slightly bent position that had helped keep Soph up on his back when his strength (or lack thereof) failed him. He looked around at those at the table already and gave them all smiles, even the ones he didn't know. There was a BOY here, too, that Toby swore he knew but couldn't quite place a name. That wasn't so strange, though, as he was... so so bad at remembering names. Like offensively so. So he smiled at him too, anyway.

Toby had been expecting for Soph to sit and drag him down next to her, so when she just stood there and played with his hand, he blinked and turned to look at her. "Err... aren't we sitting down, then?" He thought about asking if maybe she was standing to make extra sure everyone would see her shiny new prefect badge, but decided that that would probably sound a little mean if he said it out loud, like he was teasing her in a mean way. Which WASN'T the case, so played it safe and stayed quiet. Teasing people tended to lose its fun when you saw how it could hurt people, too, so Toby was VERY careful about when he did it. Which meant... he tended to not do it at all anymore.

The thought of Soph's prefect badge suddenly reminded Toby of the home made Head Nerd #1 badge Soph had mad him last year, which currently resided in his pocket. He used his free hand to quickly check that it was still there (it was, WHEW), and that was about the time that Sophie named the unnamed boy.

"Benzi?" Tobias blinked again, and looked at the kid, his expression blank as the cogs in his mind took a little longer to work than usual (because of REASONS). "I know that na-... wait. Benzi? Cutty's friend Benzi?" From like a million years ago?

While he thought about it, Toby looked up again, and his gaze happened to fall on the staff table for the first time that night. Distracted at once, the seventh year (SEVENTH year) scanned for the faces he knew and tried to catch certain professors' eyes. Thompson in particular. He got a wave. Was he missing them too? Most likely. Toby definitely was. It felt like it had been a million years already.

... Sigh.