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So it seemed that she'd forgotten about being a Prefect. Or at least she'd spaced it for a little. Dallin started to smirk again, looking at the table to hide it. Although he couldn't blame her if she had; he didn't think he'd like to be the one in charge of showing new students to the common room. He liked having the freedom to hang around the Great Hall for a bit and wander idly up to the common room.

He tipped his head sideways at her, resting it on a hand that he had propped up on the table. He didn't really want to go all the way up there just to come back down, but... sure, why not. It would be better than just waiting for her. "Yeah, that works for me," he told her, his tone bright. Besides, there had to be something he could do up there that made the trip worth while. Like say a quick hello to Ellie, who seemed to have disappeared since the train.

Or... take off his tie. He pulled on it lightly, wanting to take it off now. But, no. He'd just wait til he got up to his dorm. He sat up straight again, looking up at the Staff table for a moment before returning his attention to Ivory. "You're not too worried about going to sleep early or anything, right?" Just to make sure. He didn't know how long this investigation would take.

It was after the second time that she caught herself doing it that Ivory vowed to never hold her breath again!!

Unless of course she was underwater or...smelling something particularly pungent or getting rid of the hiccups. Were those the only exceptions? Thoughts safely now on other activities that would require breath holding, she didn't once even let her eyes divert away from conversational eye contact. Not once.....Fine. Admittedly her eyes did stray when he halfheartedly attempted to sort of start to loosen his tie. But that was it!

Resisting the urge to also lean forward and balance her chin in her palm, the Ravenclaw settled on leaning her elbows on the table as she burst into bright laughter. "Me-sleep early!?" Chuckling now, she shook her head emphatically, tendrils of hair escaping from behind her ears to and fro across her cheeks. "No worries there. Night owl..." she explained with a rueful smile. "Guilty."

"What about you?" she asked with a small smirk as she pointedly gave his shoulder a small poke. "Any early night curfews I should know about?"

Nate completely wanted to simply say yes, so he did. "Yes!" he replied enthusiastially, not able to think at all. He started running his fingers through his hair, which he did when he wanted someone to notice him (whether on purpose or not)

What? Noooo, Ellie didn't notice that blush...not at all...

"It's good to see you," she said to the two, though she was eyeing Eino and his stuttering. "I'm great. And my summer was....alright. Good, even. Maybe." She was indecisive. Surely the end counted for something, but did it make up for the entire holiday? Though, she wanted to avoid questions, so, "It's was good. What about yours? Did you do anything fun and exciting?" That was for the pair of them.

Her grin widened ever so slightly at her teammate's question. "Yeah." Hehehehehe. She nonchalantly swiped her hand across the badge as she went to scratch an 'itch' on her nose.

She drew her wand at their responses and twirled it in her fingers, contemplating whether she should use the spell or not. Surely, if she looked at the Staff table, she'd see if they were using the spell, but she didn't want to chance a glance for fear of her mood being ruined by someone else sitting in Little Professor's seat.

Ellie's attention then turned to a familiar voice, but a not so familiar head.

"Conan?" What did he do to his hair?

Yeah, nevermind that. "I'm sorry," she said. And she was. But she smiled and tried to hug him awkwardly from her seated position.

"Come sit." she patted the empty space beside her on the bench. "How are you?"

Raising his eyebrows at Ivory, Dallin couldn't help but laugh too. But come on, it was a good question! Very polite of him to make sure she didn't want to catch up on sleep, in fact. But no - she was a night person. Dallin smiled at that; it was good. That meant that she wouldn't be in a rush to get back to the common room. Unless she was worried about being out and about in the castle for too long... but he'd just deal with that if it came.

When she turned the question back to him he chuckled. "Definitely not." He loved staying up late. Even if he had to wake up early. And he didn't think he was weird in being like that.

He leaned back suddenly, stretching his arms above his head before putting them back on the table. "I wonder how the food'll be," he said, glaring at the dirty fork again. "Maybe it'll help us figure out if it's the elves' faults that the silverware is like this." Because if the silverware was bad, maybe the food would be too?

Jayden wasn't expecting such an honest answer, and immediately started blushing... and then quickly recovered her calm, slightly icy composure. "Oh yeah? What's that?" She asked..clearly not ashamed of being such a shameless flirt in the least.

"I haven't heard anyone here say why they think it's dirty but it does make sense. I wonder if there is a cleaning charm and if that would work on the silverware, then again the professor's might have tried it already." Temperance says "Yeah I hope it is. The Slytherin common room sounds very cool, if it is indeed under the lake."

Victoria looked up and smiled. "Vashti." She said, happy to see her old friend again.

"I know of a cleaning charm my aunt uses it all the time at home when she decides to give our house elf a break. I've seen a few students use it at the Slytherin table too. I'm kinda curious to whats going on though. I heard a sixth year say this is not normal everything is usually very clean. Something must be wrong" she explained. Chelsea was very curious to what was going on inside the castle.

Surrounded by her friends talking to someone introducing each other here and there, Erin just ate the delicious supper that the elves had provided them, well according to her friend Gaby. There's so much food in there that changes every now and then. The gateau that appeared when she was eating chicken legs just disappeared in thin air. Puddings came instead. Without the energy to involve in another conversation befor the Headmaster's speech, she just sat there looking at murmurs, laughters and introductions of students.

"I'm also kinda curious about whats going on." Temperance says "Interesting, then something must be wrong. I wonder what's wrong, I mean the cleaning charm should've worked but it hasn't which makes me wonder why."

Jayden turned from the boy she was talking to and noticed her friend Erin sitting all alone...."Hey there..." Jayden called out to Erin... "Pretty exciting, huh?"

"I know. I thought the headmaster was supposed to make a speech too at the opening feast" she said. Chelsea looked around the room. "I wonder when the prefects will take us to our common rooms"

"I wonder why the headmaster didn't, maybe something came up that prevented them from delievering a speech." Temperance says as she also looks around "Yeah, aren't we suppose to go to our common room after the feast is over? Though it doesn't look like too many people are eating and with silverware being dirty and all I don't blame them."

"I don't blame them either I'm not eating off this silverware. Also I heard people at the Slytherin table mention the food wasn't that great either" she said. "But maybe their still getting the common rooms ready who knows but at least we're off of that train."

Jezabel smiled shyly. "I just like to learn," she said quietly, already back to her old bookish self. "It's easy for me."
Jezabel wondered when the feast would be over. It had been a very exciting day, but she was extremely tired now. She couldn't help a yawn escaping in the middle of the Hover Charm incantation. The goblet, instead of floating into the air as it had done the previous times, promptly self-conbusted, showering Jezabel and the people around her in hot sparks.

She gave her a 'Say What?' look. "Better be, pretty tiring," she answered. Jayden's still in the mood to talk and meet new friends after the long journey they have just been. Pretty tiring day. She's going to read some of her books tomorrow, she decided. She needed to learn as quick as possible. Behind the table, she's mimickng the other students who's doing magic with their wands. They swish and flick it just like what she did at Ollivander's and they say incantations.

"Ooops!" she was startled by the warmth she felt from her elbow. She's really tired and her mind isn't going the way it should be she shouted feeling angry to the girl, "Watch it!"

"I'm also not eating off it. Huh, I had heard the food here is really good, maybe the house elves being on strike is why it isn't." Temperance says "Yeah maybe they are. As much I like trains, I'm glad we're off it also."

"What's--what's what?," Nate managed to stammer through. He couldn't take his eyes off of this girl for some reason. Gaining some composure, but his mind still not being in the most attentive state, he said, "No seriously, what's what?"

"That's really c...ACK!" Jayden shrieked, sparks flew and landed on her arms, and her robe caught fire..."Aquamenti!" Water came out of her wand and onto the arm of her robe, putting out the flame on her arm. "Well.... that was... close." Jayden sputtered, attempting to regain her composure.


After the spark incident was cleared up, Jayden turned back to the boy.."Oh, what is it that you see that you like?" She asked, flashing one of her famous grins at the boy, enjoying watching him blush and squirm. "Oh, his reactions are just too cute.." she chuckled to herself, watching the spectacle.

"Thats what I was always told too that they had good food. I haven't tried it my self but thats just what I was hearing at the Slytherin table. Apparently our head of house had to break up a food fight earlier already" she said. Only the first day and Slytherin's were causing trouble. "That was a very long train ride it never seemed like it would end or it may have been because I was excited to get here"

Nate was sure Pam was snorting and trying to suppress her laughter by now, but didn't bother to look away from Jayden, "Well, I haven't been able to look away from your face very much..." he said. And this was true. All he saw were those eyes and her shining smile. He hadn't even noticed what color her hair was, let alone what she looked like overall.

ooc: can you describe your charrie for me? I'm on an iPod so it's pretty hard to navigate pages.

Jayden had a really hard time suppressing a grin.... "Well thank you...Now that we have gotten the introductions down a bit... would you mind telling me more about yourself?" She asked the boy and then realized she had to turn away, her face was beginning to grow warm, and she did not want the boy to catch her blushing....

ooc: Jayden has striking blue eyes, and blue hair currently. (She likes to dye her hair different colors) and she has an athletic build.

I haven't tried it yet either, I'm not really very hungry and the silverware doesn't help much. I'd probably be more hungry if the silverware was clean. Wow! Did the food fight start because the food wasn't very good or just for something to do?" Temperance says "Yeah it was a long train ride. Long train ride's don't bother me that much but talking and being excited to get here helped pass the time."

Beezus was busy comforting Jerrod when a boy approached her, she didn't notice him at first but when he talked, Beatrice quickly whirled around. The voice was very familiar !
"Shannon ! I thought it was you. " she exclaimed, pulling him into a tight hug.
Smiling, she said "Yeah, well I am very proud to say that I am a first year Ravenclaw now. But .." Beezus pulled away, "You're in Hufflepuff right ?"

Well, that was a little sad, the two of them not being in the same house ..

"Alright. I'm very sorry. "she said rather apologetically .. She didn't mean to hurt his feelings or anything.. But at least, he is now smiling .. That seems better, she thought.
"So.. uhm, do you have siblings ?"

She really needed to take his mind off the miserable thoughts now. They were in a feast for Godric's sake ! They should be merry ..

"MrFrost ? how cute is that ?" she commented. "I kinda remember the man known to muggles as Santa Claus.. Frosty is his friend." she told him.

"One third year got gum in her hair I don't know how it started I just remember hearing our head of house screaming 'what is going on'. And I know what you mean when I saw the silverware I lost my appetite. As for the train ride I'm not a big fan of long train rides but when I walked in it was worth it this place is amazing" she said. "Well what I've seen so far is amazing I can't wait to see more" she had been waiting for this for a long time and now she was actually here.