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[walkingwithaghost]

Who: Paige & you!
What: Paige returns to campus and readjusts to being at Daybreak.
When: Mid-July onwards
Where: Network/around campus!
Warnings: Shouldn't be any!



i. network; july 16th - UN: charmed

Hello! My name is Paige Hirsch. I've been going here almost all my life, so some of you already know me from earlier grades. But I'm back this year to major in Runecraft! I wanted to say hi to all the new folks and ask what's new around Daybreak and Soleil, since I've been in the states for the past two years. So...yeah! Hello! What's new?

ps: Tonight is a full moon and I have a little tradition I'd like to return to. Feel free to stop by Lumière's first floor tonight for a snack!

ii. Lumière Floor 1 Common Room; night of july 16th

[Lumière is alive with the smell of honey and scones tonight. Paige sits on the couch, a plate piled high with apple scones in front of her to match a huge pitcher of soft mead on the kitchen counter. Everyone is welcome to come grab a scone or a cup of mead and enjoy the full moon's light pouring in through the open windows. She's keen to let you know that if you're passing by.]

Good evening! Help yourself, if you'd like.

iii. all around campus; all throughout july

[A travel mug full of tea and an empty notebook are all Paige needs to feel like she never left. She used to do her homework here in the hall of pythia all the time. But with school out for the summer, she settles for studying and fine-tuning her hand control for better inscriptions. Mostly she writes notes and ideas for charms. Occasionally, she doodles in the margins of these pages. What's most curious is that the letters she writes are...not letters at all.

When she isn't there, she can be found virtually anywhere as she takes her time re-acquianting herself with the grounds. She sits by the fountain and strums her guitar. She hangs out in the common room. She even visits the Root of Yggdrasil to look at the plants and select a few leaves or petals to press into oils later. Consider this half of the prompt your wildcard, if you don't want to find her in the library!]

Comments

II

[fullthrottleammy]

[Is. Is that a wolf? A wolf has just walked into the dorm and is staring at the scones. Feed her?]

[walkingwithaghost]

[Paige seems startled for a moment before she breaks out into a smile. A white wolf wanders in on her full moon offering? That seems...wonderfully auspicious. The fact that there is a presumably wild animal in the dorm doesn't bother her at all. This is Daybreak, after all.]

Oh, hello! [She follows the wolf's gaze and laughs a little.] I should have known. You probably smelled these clear across campus.

[She breaks a scone in half, offer a piece to the wolf. She's curious as to what exactly will happen, for one, but also just. Happy. This seems like such a lovely good omen, doesn't it?]

[fullthrottleammy]

[The wolf bites the scone out of her hand, careful not to put teeth on the hand itself. Her tail starts wagging at high speed, and a flower suddenly grows on the ground outside the door.]

[walkingwithaghost]

[Oh no, how cute...she weg!! Paige laughs, offering the other half of the scone.]

You're a big fan of apples, I see. [The movement of a flower just suddenly appearing draws her eye to the door. She has to squint a little to see it in the dark, but once she realizes it's a flower, Paige is excited.] Oh, wow...did you do that?

iii. Root of Yggdrasil - late July

[yokeye]

[The greenhouse is hardly ever full of people, so a new face is most certainly noticed. Toki is on his way to check on his plot of catnip plants, trailed by a personal guard and wearing a child leash; both of which he pretends don't exist as he approaches Paige with a wave.]

Hello~! I haven't seen you around before! Are you new!?

[walkingwithaghost]

[Paige turns from the chamomile she's examining.]

Oh, hello-

[Okay, she isn't going to be rude and ask, but she does stumble over her words while trying not to mention either extremely obvious and identifying feature.]

Yes and no. I've been coming here most of my life, but I just came back after a two year vacation in the states. My name is Paige.

[She extends a hand for him to shake, should he choose.]

[yokeye]

Paige~! That's a pretty name; it suits you~!

[He takes her hand to shake.]

I'm Toki! I've been here since January, so you're still new from my perspective! Anyway! Are you growing that, or like gathering it for something!?

ii

[highelves]

[ something smells...really good in the kitchen. ana peeks her head in, simply out of curiosity, but the woman inside notices. ...ah, this is the girl from the network, probably. ]

Oh! How kind of you.

[ ana steps inside and picks up one of the apple scones. ] Would you happen to be Paige?

[walkingwithaghost]

[Paige smiles brightly at Ana as she comes into the room. It's exciting, having people filtering in over time and being able to share her little tradition with everyone. Still smiling, Paige tilts her head curiously at the girl's question.]

Yes, that's me. Can I help you?

[highelves]

Welcome to Daybreak -- or rather, welcome back, I suppose. My name is Anastasia, but you may call me Ana.

[ she gives her a pleasant smile. ]

It's a pleasure to meet you.

Lumiere Floor 1

[lastexit]

*Maya's only just gotten back herself, a day ago. So she's not quite back into the swing of living here. Also, timezones, they suck. Maya's not back on the local schedule so she looks kinda like she just woke up because it was easier to sleep while the dorm was mostly empty.*

Oh, hey, scones.

*She's dressed causally in a tank top and jeans. That look like she slept in them. This is because she did. But she doesn't have any bedhead, so there's that. And other than Maya's voice, her footfalls don't actually make any noise. Which is a little weird.*

[walkingwithaghost]

[They sure are scones, and Paige is more than happy to share. She pushes the plate towards Maya a little.]

You're free to have some, if you'd like. There's mead on the counter as well. It's non-alcoholic.

[Paige doesn't drink much, herself, and didn't want to get people drunk on her very first night back. Subsequent full moon offerings will include both kinds so people can choose for themselves, though.]

[lastexit]

Seems less fun.

*Maya takes a scone, she'll get something to drink later, and sits down on one of the chairs. She sits with her legs tucked under her.*

So... I just got back, are you new or just new to me?

iii, give me that good roommates shit instead

[ahew_kha]

[Things that are confusing: coming back from the Outlands recently and, like, the next day there's someone else's stuff in the room along with your own. Hopefully someone that won't mind the extra company or the fact she's very much not a human.

Kisara's frowning to herself as she's sitting at the desk in the room, Hosni sleeping in her lap for the time being as baby dragons absolutely need to nap a good chunk of the time.

How to even address this? What if this person doesn't like any of this? She can't well just up and leave, that'd be unfair. But it'd be unfair if she stayed where she wasn't wanted...

This is such a pain.]

[walkingwithaghost]

[Kisara has nothing to worry about, if her concerns are that she isn't wanted. Paige has always loved having a roommate. It gets lonely without one, doesn't it? And she's been around magic and Daybreak all her life - a dragon for a roommate sounds more fascinating than anything else.

With her notebook recently filled with notes and doodles, she's actually coming back to grab a new one (she has a seemingly infinite supply stacked on her desk that grows a little every day, actually). When she sees that her roommate has returned, she's ecstatic.]

Oh, hello! You're Kisara, right? I'm Paige, your new roommate. I hope I'm not interrupting-

[She trails off as her eyes land on the dragon. Whoa??? Neat!! She's never seen one up close!]

Oh my goodness, you have a baby dragon on your lap, that's so cute!

[ahew_kha]

[It's in her nature, she has to worry about every tiny little thing until her fears are proven wrong, even if it's the most ridiculous thing on the face of the planet. It doesn't help that remembering her past makes her even more cautious about these sorts of things.

She's blinking slowly at that reaction, well, it would seem that no one can resist a tiny dragon, which isn't surprising after the reactions she's gotten otherwise. Hopefully her English has gotten a lot better than it had been when she got here.]

You're not interrupting, I'm just... taking a moment to compose myself, I guess? [Problems with being an anxious mess, sometimes being out in the open around so many people gets insanely overwhelming.]

Ah, yeah. I'm surprised they didn't get mad that I brought him back with me, but I wasn't about to leave a baby in the Outlands by himself. Especially not one of my kin, at that.

ii

[buddinghopes]

Oh!

[Well, if this isn't a welcome sight (and smell) after having been out all day. The comment from Paige is enough to get Lia perking up a good deal.]

Thanks! [She'll happily help herself to a scone with a bright smile.] I haven't seen you around before-- [Not that it means much, given she's only been here... what, just over a month?] --did you just arrive?

[walkingwithaghost]

You're welcome! There's non-alcoholic mead on the counter as well, if you'd like. And yes, sort of. I just came back after a two year break, but I've been going here for most of my life.

[So she's not "new" so much as she's "returning". But she might as well be new, with how different everything is and with the whole readjusting to living in France again thing. She took a few days at home to reset herself, but gosh...she knows practically nobody and even the campus seems foreign sometimes.]

[buddinghopes]

[She'll go help herself to some of that mead as well in that case.]

Ahh, I see... welcome back, in that case! I'm Lia, I got here about a month ago.

i; un: wellcooked

[transfusionem]

Welcome back! You've missed a lot of stuff, I think, and I don't even know the half of it.

[walkingwithaghost]

Thank you! I'm sure I have...Things change so fast around here! Most recently I know I wasn't here for the Herald situation, but has something else happened?

[transfusionem]

There basically seems to be stuff always happening? I know in February there was a daemon attack, but I wasn't here for that.

un: hemlock

[spelleton]

Miss Hirsch, welcome back.

Your stay at home was pleasant, I hope?

god i'm sO SORRY THIS TOOK FOREVER

[walkingwithaghost]

Ah! Hello, Ekkehardt!

It was, yes. Things aren't nearly as hectic as they used to be in the states, so it was actually a visit and not a circus this time.

I hope things have been fairly peaceful for you in my absence - as peaceful as things can be at Daybreak.

IT'S ALL GOOD

[spelleton]

I'm certainly glad to hear it. Peace and quiet sounds nice.

And well.

The Academy has certainly kept me busy, but I thrive on being busy, as you know. So it's not too troublesome for me in the end.