WINTER TERM OPENING CEREMONY AND CLASS START

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WINTER TERM OPENING CEREMONY AND CLASS START
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The snowfall has only intensified as Daybreak moves into the first day of Winter Term classes. A school-wide orientation will be held in the auditorium, followed by an open period where tours will be given to new students by student volunteers. After a noon lunch in the main hall, short introduction classes will be held where the syllabi will be distributed and professors can give a brief overview of what they’ll be covering over the term.

A. ORIENTATION ASSEMBLY

With a new school year comes a fresh address. The orientation assembly is one of the few times that the Headmistress and High Seer, Mila Duchene, speaks to the gathered faculty and students about their purpose and why they’ve been found and gathered here. About how Nightfall looms ever closer, and how together they will be the flames who light the coming darkness.

It is, in the manner of many orientation speeches, fairly long-winded. Those who have been here for more than a year have likely heard this speech before, though it’s slightly more urgent this time. Maybe it’s a good time to get to know the people on either side of you a little better while the Headmistress talks, because you’ll be here for a while. Or maybe you’ve planned ahead, and you have something to entertain you at orientation - much to the shared entertainment or dismay of others in your vicinity, perhaps.

Or you could actually be listening to the speech. It’s up to you.


B. SCHOOL TOUR

For students fresh to the academy, the sprawling nature and architecture of Daybeak Academy can be quite intimidating. Fortunately, helpful student volunteers have been tapped to help escort the new students around and give them a feel for campus. Student volunteers are typically chosen for both their experience on campus and helpful nature. While some scripts are provided, students are encouraged to ad-lib and put their own spin on campus and what they like about it. New students are, of course, encouraged to ask as many questions as they can to make sure they fully understand and familiarize themselves with the campus as quickly as possible.

C. SNACK STATION

During the first three days after the Holiday break, throughout the campus grounds are small stations manned by the kitchen staff and volunteers, the smell of hot chocolate, cider, and frying bread fills the air, stirring the appetite and promising warmth on this cold winter’s day.

Every booth has hot chocolate, some spiced with cinnamon and nutmeg, others rich and creamy, but always with an option for marshmallows, peppermint bark or caramel drizzles - with non-alcoholic hot cider for those with an allergy to chocolate. For food options, naturally being France there are crepes of all types and beignets on offer, with jam- or custard-filled berliners, while those looking for a more savory fare will be treated to rissoles - a fried bread stuffed with minced meat or bechamel sauce and cod.

While the drinks are on tap and readily available, it may take a few moments to get the treats out, so might as well make conversation while a fresh batch is made.

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Comments

[tsunderetornado]

More than likely. My visions are very clear and there's never any question of who's getting hurt.

[Which can be alarming, but it's kind of desensitized her. She doesn't balk when she sees something scary. She heads right for it and goes ham on the threat.]

It gives you some separation from what you've seen. Dream symbolism plus analyzing your own associations should help you get a clearer idea of what's going to happen without necessarily knowing who it's going to happen to.

[yokeye]

[This was making sense now.]

Your advice is very helpful, Tatsumaki-chan~!

[He might actually try to follow it.]

[tsunderetornado]

[At that, she just nods. She's done what she came here to do and given Tokidoki some direction.]

Then I'm going to leave now. Orihime, I'll see you back in our dorm. Tokidoki, if you're still having trouble after you start working on this, there are people in the Watchers I can talk to. Try everything I've told you first, and work at it.

[She doesn't want to bother the Watchers until he's explored all reasonable avenues on his own, but it's an option. Credit where credit is due, the faculty do try to take care of the students here and accommodate them where reasonably possible.]

[leekspins]

[Orihime's been listening quietly, keenly interested in the specific details of how to interpret visions. She knows how Tatsumaki's generally work, but to hear the sharp contrast between her divinations and Tokidoki's...she didn't know they could be so dissimilar.]

[He said the painful things always happened to him. Maybe he was the type of person who wished to suffer in someone else's place. Or perhaps he suffered as a side effect of seeing someone he cared about get hurt. No one wanted to see bad things happen to their friends or family. And the abstract qualities meant he was emotionally distancing himself...?]

[Her head snaps up at the sound of her name, and she blinks once before shaking off her pensive expression.]

Okay! Thank you for coming on such short notice!

[She turned toward Tokidoki and beamed proudly. Wasn't Tatsumaki the coolest?]