Niorin caught Darius' attention and stopped him in the middle of the hallway. She was obviously looking over her partner, so Darius took the moment to consider her as well. She seemed to exude an aura of apathy toward him. Was that inherent or deliberate? Either way, he found it somewhat irritating.

"I'm Niorin, though you've probably heard of me already right?" she said. It was a pretty irritating introduction, Darius thought. A little too arrogant, but not quite arrogant enough to get called out on. Well then.

He cocked his head when she finished her introduction. "[b]Niorin? Never heard of you[/b]," he said nonchalantly.

That wasn't true, of course. It was a big school, but it wasn't [i]that[/i] big. Everybody at least knew of everybody else. And besides that, Darius was reasonably sure they'd had a class together at some point, probably.

He started patrolling down the hall again, assuming his partner would just follow along. "[b]I'm Darius. We've got this wing of the school. Should be pretty simple, and we don't even need to get wet. Which is good; you don't seem like the type to enjoy running around in the rain, eh?[/b]"

Ooh, that was a good moment for a distant rumble of thunder to reach them. Still a ways off, but that would indeed be an awful storm starting out there.