For two days, Lyra sniffled and sneezed her way through Initiation.  It didn't help them to hide much from Grimm, but still, it was worth the evening bath on the first night.  The trio mostly managed to stay put throughout the trial, although they found out that the reason they didn't run into too many students was because they'd accidentally traveled farther than most did.  She realized now that that likely explained why something like an Ursa was just having a good old time out there.  Still, they'd proven themselves capable and, save for her cold, Lyra had never felt better.  Upon their return greeting, she fought every sneeze and cough that tried to force its way from her body, failing only a couple of times.  It was hardly flattering - the fact that she had to breathe through her mouth while watching their Headmaster greet them.  Oh well, she was starting to feel better as of that morning.  Some sleep in a real bed would do her wonders.

Owyn, on the other hand, managed to adapt better than he initially seemed, but still didn't quite thrive the way Lyra did in the land.  Certainly, he was excited to hunt down every Grimm that they could in the final two days of the trial, but that didn't mean he was still up for the work of camping.  He hardly seemed to be listening as Ozpin spoke, which was to be expected of most students - they were already all exhausted and were only trying to cope with the idea that the school could get any harder than that.

Lyra smirked as Soren and Ulyssa argued, "Hey, don't fight," she instructed, shaking her head, "We'll get plenty of studying and fun in when it's time.  For today, let's just take a breather.  We earned it," She pointed out, crossing her arms, "Besi-"

"Is that Faunus really trying to tell her teammates what to do?"  The girl's ears pricked slightly and she stopped talking when she heard a voice.  She didn't know who it was, but she could hear the disgust in it even from this distance.  "If we had one of those things on our team, I don't think I could ever take it seriously..."

"Pfft, as if they do.  I'm sure they're just trying not to piss it off...  You know how their tempers can be, after all.  They gotta spend four years with it - that's rough."

Lyra cleared her throat and let out a breath, trying to ignore the conversation, "Sorry, I uh, lost my thought.  So, what do you guys wanna do?"

Owyn reached into the sky, stretching his back out, "I know I wanna get a bed and a room...  Like, pronto.  How do you think they're splitting us up?  By team or what?"

Lyra rolled her eyes, "Ugh, Owyn, didn't you read anything about the school?  If a team's co-ed, you sleep in separate rooms.  We'll split with a team that's got two other girls and two other guys.  You'll room with the boys and we'll obviously room with the girls, but still do everything else as a team.  Duh," She explained to her incessantly understudied brother.

"Well, Miss Know-It-All, what should we do while we wait for the room assignment?"

"I dunno about you guys, but I just wanna look around," She said, putting on a smile. [i]I'd never take [b]it[/b] seriously...[/i] the words rang in her head.  Honestly, she thought that only the snobby people around her family were like that.  Even Owyn wasn't that horrid - he wasn't nice, but he had at least been keeping his mouth shut around father.

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An hour later, Lyra was tossing her bag onto a bed over Ulyssa's excitedly.  "Thank you so much for letting me take the top one!"  She said excitedly, bouncing on the balls of her feet.  "This is gonna be so cool!"  The girl pulled her bow from her back and placed it on her mattress her too before walking to the window, leaning on the sill with a big smile plastered on her face, "And look at this view!  I know it's really high up, but you can see almost all of Vale if it's not too foggy!  It's so beautiful...  How lucky are we that we get to take a room on the highest floor like this?"

The other pair of bunk beds appeared to already have a pair of tenants, but the owners must have be out for the day.  Lyra's eyes lit up, "Ulyssa, do you think our roommates are older students?  Like maybe even second or third year.  That would be so cool..."

Owyn and Soren, on the other hand, walked into their room to find a similar sight, with one exception: one of the two pre-established roommates was actually in the room.  Owyn dropped his bag, deciding he didn't care whether he was top or bottom, so he'd let Soren choose.  It was hardly a selfless move - he honestly just didn't care.  The boy who was there before them had his eyes glued to a book and didn't quite look up at first.  His brow was furrowed, the front read [I]Tales of Grimm and Aura[/I] – seemed a bit more non-fictional than the titled implied, however, based on the lack of coverart or fancy font for the title.  He sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose for a moment, “But that doesn’t explain…”  Finally, shaking his head, he snapped the book closed and dropped it onto his end table beside the bottom bunk.  “It’ll make more sense later,” He explained to nobody before getting up and stretching his back.

“Hey,” He said, finally noticing the newbies in his room.  Well, it was obvious he’d noticed them, it was more finally acknowledging them than anything.  “Name’s Voyd, from Team RAVN.  You guys must be our new roommates.  Nice to meet ya,” He said with a smile, offering a hand for either of them to shake.  “We’re graduating at the end of this year, welcome to Beacon.  I hear they upped the Initiation run this year – based on how you two look, I’d be willing to bet that it was pretty rough.  Congratulations – I wish they’d let me go through it again.  Initiation was such a blast,” what was initially a polite and friendly smile turned into more of a devilish smirk.  Anybody who could read a first impression could tell that this guy [I]lived[/I] to die and tell about it.

“Aero’s our other roomie, he’s probably out doing something…  Well…  You’ll see pretty soon how he is.  Not much of one for conversation if you catch my drift...”  He shrugged, waving a hand dismissively, “Anyway, you guys can pick out your beds.  I’m sure you’re tired, but if you’ve got any questions, fire away.”