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As a rule, Regulus did not tend to give his name until he had been specifically asked for it, but it had just been read to the whole Hall and names were likely to become well known amongst their year very soon - he'd been paying attention to each of them himself, after all. Still, he did not rush into it without considering things, not being eager to break the habit entirely. "Regulus," he said, in response to Mia but for the benefit of the others too.
Regulus didn't immediately realise that the one question was directed at him; if he'd not been looking in the general direction of the red-headed girl when she'd asked it, he'd have missed it entirely. There was a moment's pause as he looked back at her - perhaps just a little longer than he might usually have done, as it was difficult to think clearly through the ache deep inside his skull - before Regulus simply answered, "My eyes are fine." Which was not untrue.
To the confirmation that the dormitories did in fact look into the lake as well, Regulus only nodded, apparently unfazed by the mention of a giant squid who occasionally watched people sleep. He said nothing else, and quietly nudged his askew fork back in line with the dinner knife beside it.
Talk of the headmaster brought Regulus' gaze back to the top table. He had half a mind to ask Mia - and apparently Sophia and some of the others, given she addressed them all specifically - which primary school it was they had gone to, but thought he might be able to guess. In any case, the speech came next, one which was mercifully shorter than all the other speeches Regulus could remember having to sit through in his life, and spoken by a man who seemed a lot kinder.
By the time the food appeared, Regulus was more than ready to dig in (and especially to sip on a goblet of water, in the hope it would chase the headache away), but he waited and watched, remembering what had been drilled into him over and over and over, and, sure enough, much sooner than he had expected...
He turned his attention back towards those others who had been lined up with him in the Sorting Ceremony, not taking anything from the middle of the table just yet. "Which of you went to school together before?" he asked, looking at Mia, and Sophia, and Maisey, and the quiet and watchful girl, Norah, and whoever else of them was easily within earshot.
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