Ash stood at the refreshments table spinning the ladle around the punch bowl. He was told this wasn't the kind of event one brought a book to so he had left them at home. It also seemed he'd been spending the majority of his free time in this place locked in his room reading, while the rest of the school did god knows what. He wasn't exactly keen on the gossip circles. The only reason he had even bothered to show up to this event was because he had forced himself to. He'd thought about capitalizing on the students being out of their rooms to catch some actual sleep but that probably wasn't going to happen anyway, so he came here.

He lifted the ladle to a cup and poured the punch into it. He'd yet to make many friends here, but it wasn't bothering him all that much. It wasn't that he couldn't, it was more that he had to be present to establish a relationship with anyone. [b] "This punch is probably laced with something." [/b] He said aloud to himself, not expecting a response.