[h1][center][color=1b1464][b]Nancy Jones[/b][/color][/center][/h1]

'Geez, my new partner is super quick," Nancy thought as she watched Nathan speed over and get his stuff and then speed right on over to the volunteers right as she was getting to his luggage. Was this dude on the track team or something...did the school even have a track team? Heck if Nancy knew, but hey if they did she was pretty sure Nathan would make the cut. Nancy quickened her pace so that she wouldn't keep her new partner waiting and once she was over there, the volunteers started to show them to their room.

"Man, I missed this place..." Nancy said as she took the sights in as they were lead down the castle's halls. Over the course of last year, this place had become a second home to her. It was where she had met two of her closest friends and last year had been the first time she had been so far from home for so long. She grew up in a lot of ways in just her first semester here and now that she was bonded, she was bound to grow up even more. It was going to be an interesting year!

When the volunteers finally got them to their room and handed them their elective sign up sheets, Nancy thanked both of them before heading into the room. "Woo!" She cried out happily as she saw how much room she had now. Communal living had been fun for maybe the first week, but after all the excitement had died down, it actually kind of sucked to be crammed in with that many other people at once. Especially during flu season. That had literally been the worst. But, now she was sharing a large room with only one person and there was even a retractable wall to make it feel like she had her own good size room all to herself! Being an upperclassman, even if she was only second lowest on the totem pole now, was the best!

Nancy quickly turned to Nathan, eyes wide and smile big from this new rush of happiness she felt. "Okay, so we need to decide who's on which side, ground rules for the room, um," Nancy looked down at the sheet that held the list of electives on it. "We should probably figure out these first." She looked at them. Hort and Cooking were the ones she wanted to take. But she had to take Hort, that's what her sponsor wanted after all. But...She looked down monster hunting. She heard it was mandatory. "I guess we'll be taking monster hunting together. I plan on taking Horticulture too. I have to take that class actually." Nancy told Nathan with a chuckle. "What about you, dude?"

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[h1][center][b][color=9e0b0f]Ruby Doer[/color][/b][/center][/h1]

Ruby's anxiousness had come back with a vengeance as she continued to wait to hear her name. So many pairs had gone up now, it seemed like half the room was gone. Being called on last never felt good. It was like being told you weren't good enough to get your name called before that point, even if that wasn't the picker's intention. If that wasn't bad enough, some students held the superstition that the pair called on last was the least likely to get along and do well. It was probably from the fear that if they couldn't find you a pair sooner, you might not work well with anyone and thus had to be paired up with the only other person left. Ruby knew those were silly notions but she couldn't help thinking of them as yet another name was called. She wondered if her sister had felt this way when she had waited to get paired up with her partner.

And then, like a sudden crack of thunder, she heard it. Her name, as well as her partners, being called out to come up to the podium. Ruby felt some relief that she wasn't called last, but now it was time to meet her partner for the year. With a deep breath, Ruby got up, leaving her things at her seat as she made her way to the podium. Ruby could see Loke walking to the stage as she did. Around her height and white hair. While she didn't regret spending as much time as she could with her sister last year, she did regret not getting to know the other students a bit more, so that she might know who this guy was. But well, she had the whole year to figure that out right?

Ruby quickly climbed the podium's steps and gave a nod of greeting to both the headmaster and the Druids that would be bonding her and Loke, before turning to the boy himself. "Um...Hello." She said in an unsure tone. What did one say to the stranger they were about to be bound to by their very souls for the next school year? Nice to meet you? No, to generic. Nice weather we're having? No, to out of touch with the current situation. You and I are about to become one huh? No, that sounded super awkward even in her head, Ruby couldn't even imagine how awkward it would sound if she actually said it. "Uh, yeah....ready when you are..." She ended up saying as she rubbed the back of her head in an awkward way. It wasn't great, but nothing better had come to mind. Hopefully, her partner wouldn't take that as a sign that she just wasn't interested in him at all.

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