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Lexi reached forward and shook her new neighbor's hand. "It's good to meet you, Maya," she remarked. Lexi had never been one to be too formal, so she hoped it was alright to call her new co-worker by her given name. After all, Lexi would hope that Maya would call her Lexi and not Miss Carlton or Professor Carlton. "Grand feast...mmhmm. It's to celebrate the start of school. We'll have another at the end of term. Otherwise, the other days are just...well, days in which normal meals are served. Meals not so big."
Maya listened with interest as Lexi explained why they made such a big thing out of...whatever this was.
Ooooh, start of term. Well, that was most exellent.
"Oh, I see..." she nodded, smiling a little.
"In my contrry, in Me-heeee-co, we have a meal too...but not as jovial as this." Her hands made gestures to the Great Hall.
"Only for the end of term do we have a leetle somethin' bigger." "But this is nice." It really was. AND even more pleasant when colleagues were nice people. She had lots more to meet though...like her, and him, and...
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Cassirin Tate slid back into his high-backed seat and immediately filled his mouth with potatoes. He was NOT going to talk to anyone until he'd eaten at least a few bites. Students were so bloody inconsiderate, wandering up to chat while they were eating. Whatever happened to courtesy? Whatever happened having a healthy fear of authority???
He shook his spoon at the students currently in front of the table. And why did people always get hurt in stupid ways at the feast? Lily NEVER got to eat her meal.
And why was Lily giggling? He shook his spoon at her too.
The prospect of people dying made some Headmasters very cranky.
Her eyes had wandered over the staff table, and she saw Tate sitting down and shoveling food into his mouth. Maya hadn't even noticed the food appearing!
Looking down quickly, she smiled and wondered how big the possibility of finding some enchiladas was. Heh... She grabbed the plate of beans and some green sallad. It had avocado in it. It would have to do - her 'almost' Guacamole.