[color=ed145b]"Helena..Kingsley. Pleased to meet you."[/color] she replied, extending out a bandaged hand. [color=ed145b]"Not that the family thing is super important...I'm not like an heir or anything ..but the Professors tend to call people by their first names so it'd kinda get confusing if I didn't say it...and kinda weird if I didn't mention the first one..so.." [/color] She was pretty sure she was rambling, but it wasn't that often Helena had extended conversations with anyone her age and the fear of an awkward silence was instead leading to her attempting to take up any gap in the exchange with her halting non-sequitur. Mercifully, it was interrupted by Professor Lovette's orientation talk, and Helena was able to remain silent whilst it continued. As it drew to a close, she neglected to go and look to see who she had been matched with, and instead contented herself with fishing about in her bag for something as so as to let other people go see for themselves.[@EchoicChamber] [@LokiLeo789] ---- Dinah had leant on the wall, eating her way through a box of cereal that rested in one hand, whilst the talk had gone on. All pretty standard stuff. most of it she was going to take as suggestion rather than hard and fast rules. Wasn't as if she was super scared of being thrown out when she'd already been ambivalent about attending...but it was good to know what you didn't want people seeing you do. She could still make out Toby, though he'd not approached. She wasn't sure if he'd not noticed the presence of his cousin, or was avoiding acknowledging her arrival. If it was the latter she wasn't going to blow his cover. Well, not unless it was really funny anyway. From where she was though she couldn't help but hear the exchange happening closeby, and the...girl? (She was pretty sure girl.) She was threatening some guy who'd been attempting to...hit on her she guess. Not in a great way, admittedly, but not enough to warrant physical assault. The terramancer strolled past, and scooped up an errant piece of fruit that'd been flung off the table by the recent theatrics, before speaking up to the girl. [color=39b54a]"Might wanna turn it down a couple of notches champ. You gotta live with us and we gotta live with you for the next year so if some dude trying it on with you is that big a deal we're all in for hard semester.[/color]" she remarked, as she idly tossed the apple in between her hands. Red Sonja and Don Juan taking bites out of each other at every opportunity was one thing. If Norrevinter and Sterling were going after each other, they weren't bothering anyone else. If someone was going to go psycho on people for innocuous things that happened to annoy them... well she had no intention of living with that for a year, so she might as well nip that shit in the bud. Her gaze roamed over to Canvas. Oh the unmistakble fuckboy smirk of a Sterling. [color=39b54a]"And you need to work on your game if you think incest is a great opener."[/color] [@Mr Allen J][@LorelleQuips] --- Kora was certainly not sorry about throwing Larke into a table. This was unmistakably a matter of honour and wasn't something any true Norrevinter would have refrained from. Still, she was going to have to play the game to some degree. At least until she'd established her status. She glared at Larke in a way that suggested all of it was his fault, before muttering a [color=ed1c24]"Yes, Professor"[/color] and dropping into a seat to let the orientation roll on. Despite everything, the issue of rooms was something she was rather interested in. She was more than eager to make her way over to find who was listed as her roommate, and more than pleased with the name written under hers. [color=ed1c24]"Tessa!"[/color] Her Aunt's Goddaughter! One of the few kids her age Kora had had around her whilst growing up, as the girl had made frequent visits to Vollr in the Summer. Probably the best possible outcome. There was another name there, but that one she wasn't especially worried over. Whoever it was, they were outnumbered. [@shadowhope]