Kiri, who had been trying to figure out if the group of stars she was looking at was the Summer Triangle, nearly slid out of the chair when someone close to her spoke. For a moment, she thought it was Professor Bunbury, but when she looked away from the darkness of space to focus on more mundane, down-to-earth matters - such as other people talking to her - she that it was, in fact, Vanessa. "Hey," she said quietly. "Yes, there's, er, Vega," she pointed, "and next to it... Erm, never mind." She struggled into an upright position and rubbed the back of her head to get the blood flowing again.

Vanessa was wearing a very extravagant dress. It was layered and... there was some kind of Muggle cartoon printed on it. That reminded Kiri of her own attire, because it was so ordinary compared to everyone else at the party! She'd agonised in front of the mirror, a batch of the new clothes she got from Paris on the bed. But in the end, she'd been too scared to put on anything fancy. Especially not that red dress - gorgeous, yes, but she still thought she was half-naked in it.
None of her classmates had ever really seen her in anything but working school robes or marginally more presentable dress robes (which nonetheless looked very similar to the school robes), so she'd slipped into the white tunic Paris had said looked so nice on her, and that was it. No dress. No shoes with higher heels. "That's a nice dress," Kiri commented, smiling. With her foot, she shoved the chair opposite her away from the table. "Sit down! How are you?"