Over in her dark corner of the room, Professor Kovalenko was disinterestedly ticking off names on the roster. [i]Ahktar-Sterling Avalon Botrelle Ciervo Crowley..[/i] She was prepared to step in to bring any altercations to a halt, but it appeared that Montana had it all in hand for the moment. She had her own things to take care of. [i] ...Kingsley Leon Luxlane Memoli.. [/i] There was already enough to be concerned about without the students causing trouble. If she had to lay down the law, she was going to make certain that whatever she did was going to stick. [i] ..Schippers Sterling..[/i] Oren stopped, her gaze passing over the darkened room and setting on Maeve Byrne. The cryomancer's expression darkened. She was about to move forward when the other professor abruptly rushed from the room. Oren watched like a hunting owl before disappearing into the shadows of the corner. --- [color=39b54a]"You did just start threatening some dude for asking you a pretty innocuous question." [/color]Dinah responded to the girl, whilst simultaneously giving Canvas an expression that said 'Really?' after he made his little quip. [color=39b54a]"Calm it down less you want the special ops professors on your ass." [/color] And indeed if you didn't want to piss off everyone else in the room, but she couldn't help but feel like that probably wouldn't factor into the student's decision either way. She felt moderately accomplished to discover that her estimation that the guy was a Sterling (or at least the result of a Sterling) were confirmed when she caught sight of the heir himself, fresh from his close encounter with a bowl of yogurt, strolling over. Of course they hadn't met before, being a Fox didn't ten to net you invites to Council parties, but you could hardly turn round without seeing evidence of the ubiquitous eight families. An elite class she might have ended up a part of in another life. Regardless, she extended a hand. [color=39b54a]"Dinah Fox. Everyone gets a freebie at this point to back up awkwardly and find someone else to chat with."[/color] She'd been watching the approach and subsequent 'intervention' of the young man she came to understand to be Jason Avalon..and was mostly quite unsurprised that the trickery heir hadn't made much attempt to greet her. [color=39b54a]"You did get further than Avalon so I appreciate the level of effort."[/color] --- Helena looked a little surprised at the apparent revelation. [color=ed145b]"Um no...not as far as I know." [/color]she responded to Marcus' question, cracking a bit of a smile before going to take a look for herself and confirm. [color=ed145b]"Maybe my dorm partner didn't show up?" [/color]she suggested, offering a non-committal shrug to indicate that she had no more idea why she'd be separated off from the others than Esper or Marcus did. [color=ed145b]"Or they wanna keep a space free? Weird."[/color] Either way it didn't appear to massively shock or worry her. Possibly due to the prospect of having twice (or in some cases three times) the space of anyone else. If anything, it did sort of work out in her favour. ---- Despite her set to with Sterling, the discovery of who her roommate was had put Kora in a much better mood. She hooked up her bag, sword, and skull before making her way over to Tessa, who seemed equally pleased with the arrangement. [color=ed1c24]"I can grab your bag if you're in a hurry to go find the other person. Not really a problem here."[/color] she offered. Being six foot six and trained to break stuff in half did give you a distinct edge with that kind of thing. Hilda had refrained from imposing that kind of thing on Tessa. The girl's mother had already been a bit dubious about some of the things the Norrevinters had sent her back with in the past. Kora herself didn't see what was wrong with whole reindeer skins, but it was how it was.