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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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[Don't give him that shit, Ekkehardt. He knows you want to say something more than that.]

We're not talking about this. This never happened.

["This" happens to be the fact that his hand is currently a pincushion courtesy of an ill-placed fall and a happy little desk cactus.]

[ Wow, Avery, he's a professional, he's not going to be that petty!!

when he's treating you, anyway, lol ]

It's hardly the kind of thing that makes it into casual conversation.

How are you with pain tolerance?

[ It's a small cactus, thankfully, so the damage isn't too pronounced and it means he can just take care of the problem without having to break out more than tweezers and bandages. ]

Considering what I have to deal with from my coworkers every day, I'd like to think I handle it quite well.

[when will he learn to stuff the sarcasm? Never.]

[ He resists the urge to sigh because that would be unprofessional. ]

As much as I appreciate that your accident has clearly not affected you enough to impair your biting commentary on the rest of the faculty [ and he does actually mean that - if Avery is being sarcastic, it means there's no hidden surprises he needs to look for or worry about because it's clearly not nearly enough pain to affect his mental functioning ], I thought I should warn you that I'm going to have to dig some of these spines out.

[ He'd rather remove them than let them sit there and dissolve over time, the less immediately stressful but slightly more risky option. ]

[That revelation earns a grimace.]

Peachy.

I've dealt with worse. Just... get it over with before someone sees me in here.

[he decides not to mention that some of the deep-set spines might be his own fault. Turns out switching to his shadow body doesn't get rid of them]

[ While Avery is talking, he's just going to get tools out to deal with that and just...start while he's distracted so it doesn't hurt as much.

Normally, he could use magic to force foreign bodies to the skin's surface, but with daemon-granted power being so varied and unpredictable, he errs on the side of caution and uses manual tools instead until he must.

To Ekkehardt's credit, he makes it a quick (if slightly painful) process to extract those spines and disinfect the injuries they left behind. When he's done, apart from a few small puncture wounds and scratches, there's barely any sign it happened at all. ]

I don't expect you'll have to deal with infection, but you should probably keep an eye on it for a little while. It shouldn't bother you, though. [ He doubts Avery will have to worry about being infected by anything, though. The few Contracted he's met seem to have their own ways of dealing with that. No use having a body that gives out to such small mortal inconveniences.

He adjusts the offending cactus on the desk a bit, which doesn't seem even remotely affected from having tasted blood. ]

What were you even doing?

[It's done, it's fine, and it definitely wasn't as bad as some of the injuries he's had in the past, but damn did he hate every second of that.]

Someone borrowed one of my pens without asking.

[There's that dark, vaguely threatening tone.]

Lucky for them, their inability to lay a rug flat happened to save their life.

[Or at least their dignity. He still doesn't know where that tack flew off to when he tripped.]

[ He can sort of understand that protectiveness over objects - he'd get ornery very quickly indeed if someone took his medical tools - but, still...pens... ]

That's quite the reaction to having a pen borrowed without permission. [ His voice is mild. ] Did you at least get it back?

[He reaches into his blazer and pulls out a fountain pen from the inside pocket]

Of course I did. I wouldn't leave it stranded there.

[ Oh, Avery, he questions your priorities sometimes. ]

If only you could apply the same care to living beings. [ His voice is somewhere between judgementally dry and genuinely sort of amused. ] How many pens do you have, now?

[ It's been a while since the last time he asked. He has no doubt that the collection has significantly expanded. ]

Somewhere between forty and fifty. Unfortunately my ink's been running low, so I've had to slow down a little.

[That and Avery is terrible with money.]

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