Admittedly, she really liked the dormitory. The deep blue and bronze combo was really comforting to Mouse, even if she normally preferred a Cinderella blue (because obviously). She'd found that she felt pretty acclimated to this room almost immediately upon arrival, her trunk at the foot of the bed and her favorite book and a plethora of products for self care in the nightstand beside her bed. From time to time, she suffered from insomnia and just could not quiet her head enough to rest - but usually putting on a face mask and reading a chapter or two with a nice cuppa in her Chip teacup was enough to lull her.

Though, that was not the reason tonight that she had pulled out an array of her face mask options and laid them out on her bed. She was hoping she could convince one of the dorm mates to join her for the night, perhaps attempt to bond and forge friendships with these individuals she would now be living with for the next... two years. So long as her mom didn't insist on her moving back to France, that was.

Getting up from her bed, nice and comfortable in her Jack Skellington onesie (she liked to 'sleep like the dead' so this seemed fitting), Mouse carefully moved over towards Lisa Nam's bed and knocked on one of the pieces of wood to try to quietly get her attention. "Hey roomie. Any interest in a face mask and some tea?"

Lisa was dressed in her comfy chill clothes. Fuzzy socks, thick black joggers with a pale pink hoodie. She was up but she was finishing some pre-reading for the upcoming Transfiguration class. It was her favourite subject so homework never felt like a chore, more like a pleasure. It was much more pleasant than Flying class. While she had begun to enjoy flying more, she just didn’t experience the same enthusiasm that some of her friends had for it. But that was alright. Each to their own.

A knock brought her back from her reading. She closed her book, tied her lose blonde hair up in a lazy bun, and leaned forward to find her new roomie there. Lisa was fairly certain Mouse was her name. “Hey roomie. I’m interested. And you can sit down if you want. I don’t mind,” she said, patting the end of her bed. She knew some of their roomies didn’t like when people sat on beds without permission but Lisa didn’t care. “I have some oatmeal ones too if we want to throw those in. I also have nail polish too.”

It wasn't long before Lisa's head had popped out from behind her curtain, and Mouse sent a smile her direction - her own long brunette hair thrown up over her neck with a clasp made to look like a skeleton hand. Hearing Lisa say she was interested, and offering to throw in some of her own supplies as well, the French transfer gave a small giggle as she moved back to her bed briefly to grab a thermos of tea and a couple cups and a handful of her face masks before heading back. "Sounds like we have ourselves the making of a spa night." She replied cheerily, before accepting Lisa's invitation and settling herself on the end of Lisa's bed - masks between them. "Help yourself to anything that catches your eye. What's mine is yours!" She was always happy to share.

Wiggling a bit backwards to pull her legs underneath her into a more comfortable seating position, Mouse reached for one of the types she generally liked and placed it in her lap to fiddle with the opening. "Have you and your siblings always been students here at Hogwarts?" She remembered Lisa's introduction, referencing her brother Evan and she thought she might have heard the Nam name in some of her other classes for another student as well.

The warm smile grew a little more when Mouse said they were going to make their own spa day. “Sounds fun!” she chirped and was touched by Mouse’s generosity and kindness. It spoke volumes of her character. She was… nice. Most people were nice that she had run into Hogwarts but she couldn’t imagine how terrifying it must have been to transfer in your later years. She had been here all six years of her schooling but she supposed that Mouse would encounter what her eldest brother, Noah, encountered when transferring. She stood up from the bed to grab the nail polish cookies (lilac, silver, dark teal, race car red, bubblegum pink, and apricot). “Thanks! I have some tea and sweets too that I can grab for our spa day. Nothing wrong with a little feasting yeah?” she grinned as she got up to grab a few homemade treats that her parents had packed her off with. “These are from my secret stash.” She glanced down at the facial mask options and opted for a cucumber sea salt one. “This sounds delightful! I’ll do this one.”

Lisa took a bite of one of the lemon cookies that she had brought over before opening up the top of the wrapper. The face mask smelled really nice. The personal question made Lisa nod. “Yeah, I’ve been here for six years. I have three older siblings. Yeah, Noah, Evan, and Maya have. Well Noah transferred in his fifth year from Illvermorny. We grew up all over the world. I spent most of my childhood in Boston or London. Noah spent time in Busan… that’s where our family is from.” She fished out her mask and placed it on her face. “What about you? You said you came from Beauxbatons?”

She smiled back at the girl, giving her head a small firm nod of agreement. "It does!" As Lisa stood to grab other supplies, Mouse finished opening up her face mask, tilting her head back to lay it carefully on her skin before using her fingers to smooth out all the wrinkles. The initial slime on skin always gave her a small shiver as she got used to the uncomfortable feeling, but it was gone in seconds and she knew it was SO good for her skin that the sacrifice was well worth it. "I would say a day of indulgence is very much deserved at the start of term." The end, as well, which was why she imagined there was also SUCH large events for open and close of the school year. Indulgence. Proper starts and send offs. Much like new dormitory situations. Once her mask was securely in place, she glanced down at Lisa's offerings before carefully selecting a cookie and nibbling on it. "Mmm. These are delicious! Thank you. Did your family make these to send you with?" She was also glad to see the other girl had found something that was of interest of use for her.

Mouse continued to nibble at the cookie as the other girl talked, nodding her head along to show she was listening as she explained her family. Three older siblings, and all Hogwarts students! Well... for the most part it sounded like. "Is it hard being the youngest, or do you prefer it?" Seems like smallest would have it's perks, until it came to the graduations for older siblings. "Do one of your parents have to travel for work or does your family just like to have new experiences?" Or perhaps both - there was certainly nothing wrong with both. At the question of Beauxbatons, she nodded her head with a small smile. "My family's home was in the countryside in France though... I suppose it's just my mother's home now. My father and I moved to the UK recently, which has been okay. I have a cousin in London that it's been nice to be able to spend more time with." The divorce honestly wasn't bothering her as much as she would have expected, though perhaps it just hadn't really sunk in yet for her. "So your older two brothers are graduated? What do they do?"

“Hear! Hear!” she cried out in agreement. Lisa also thought a day of indulgence was a necessary start to the term especially their recovery term after OWLS. “Yes, my parents sent me off with them. Let me know if you have any questions about the treats. There’s lemon, snickerdoodle, chocolate chip cookies but there’s also Yakgwa and Vienna cookies. Yakgwa is persimmon and honey. It’s really good.” She wasn’t sure if Mouse had ever tried a cookie like that.

Would Lisa trade her position as the youngest in the family? Maybe this year was the first year that she’d consider it because she finally understood that next year it would just be here and then there would be no Nams. “No, I like being the youngest and watch my siblings encounter life and take notes on what worked and what didn’t work,” she joked before picking up a Yakgwa cookie to munch on. “I wouldn’t change it for the world. Do you have siblings?”

“My Appa’s job keeps us on the move. He works for the South Korean government in the Muggle world. His work takes us loads of places but fortunately we’re able to stay in a place for a few years on assignment. Eomma runs the Nam operations and works elsewhere.” To be honest, Lisa couldn’t remember what her Eomma did but she knew Eomma was in charge at home.

As she listened to Mouse speak, she couldn’t help but pick up on the fact that Mouse’s parents were either separated by death or divorce. She opted for divorce as Mouse had said her mother had a house in France. A divorce… she couldn’t imagine her parents ever getting one. They seemed so happy… even when they adopted Solana and had tried to make another sinking work. “It must be nice to have a cousin close by! I appreciate my cousins.” Cora, Chase, Chin-hae. It was weird to think they all ended up with C names. A quirky coincidence indeed.

Now a topic she loved to brag- er talk about- were her brothers. “My eldest brother is a Healer in his final years of residency. He’s epic. I… He practically raised me when I was a kid. Noah was a Gryffindor here. He used to ballet dance but chose to become a Healer after the Hogwarts conflict… Y’know the war a few years ago,” she explained. She needed to write him an OWL to ask how he was. “And and Evan. He’s off traveling the world with a good friend.. or was it girlfriend, I can’t remember? He needed a gap year. He was a Ravenclaw. Quiet, studious, stoic… but a big heart. He and I became closer at Hogwarts.”

The enthusiastic agreement had the girl giggling softly, before she focused on the tin as Lisa explained what each type was. She felt a bit guilty for having selected one before waiting to hear the types, especially considering how her family clearly put thought into the gift given the wide range of flavors. The lemon she had selected was definitely delicious, but the Yakgwa certainly peaked her interest and she determined to try one of those later. "What's a vienna cookie?" She supposed she probably should have known the answer to that one, but it was currently escaping her memory. Her parents were certainly not the bake cookies type at home. Well... they hadn't been before, at least.

She made a VERY good point on being the youngest, and Mouse nodded her head in agreement. "That's very sound reasoning." Lisa might have been joking, but she certainly took it as seriousness. "What have you learned so far?" If she were open to sharing the information anyways. Davet was the closest thing she had to an older sibling and she hadn't observed much from him yet on do's and don'ts of the world. It was a bit melancholic for how difficult that question was to answer now, and Mouse took a bite of her cookie to try to hide that fact. That used to be a very simple answer. And while she would have liked to still say no, Rosie was here which meant people would realize eventually they had some type of familial relation, so perhaps it was easier to just... claim her. She didn't particularly like the idea of being perceived a liar, so with that thought she gave a small nod. "A younger step sister. She was sorted into Hufflepuff this term." Which thankfully was on the other side of the castle.

Her mask now firmly in place, Mouse shifted herself again slightly so she could lean back against a bed frame post while she listened to her dorm mate, a small smile just given how excited Lisa seemed to be talk about family. It was clear she had a good relationship with them, which was enough to chase any of her own negative thoughts to the far recesses of her mind. "A job with travel sounds exciting! But especially that you get to settle for a few years before it's on the go again. Having to move every year I imagine would be exhausting for you and your siblings." Always having to make new friends sounded isolating. In regards to her cousin, she smiled and nodded, but didn't offer anything further as she opted to listen instead of Lisa's brothers.

The mention of the war did catch her attention and her smile slipped the smallest fraction at the solemnity. "A noble reason to pick such a noble career. We're lucky we weren't at schools at the time, I can't imagine how scary it must have been for those who were." She had considered asking the seventh years, but it did not seem a topic someone should ask at all considering the affects of the trauma. "You must miss them both terribly." At least it sounded like she did, given how fondly she spoke of both. And with the further information about the younger of the two, Mouse was certain she knew exactly who he was which she decided to divulge. "I think I actually met one of your brothers, in passing. Evan. My cousin is dating his friend, Jude."