[center][b]Cafeteria[/b]
[@Azereiah] [@Etranger] [@Jay Kalton] [@Rekaigan] [@liferusher] [@HokumPocus] [@Pkken] [@Avant] [@ghastlyInc] [@MULTI_MEDIA_MAN] [@Illiren] [@Queentze] [/center][hr]The cafeteria was a cacaphony of excited conversations during dinner after all the testing had concluded. The first year students talked about how their tests had gone with eachother and anyone else who would care to listen. Many second year students were present as well, either chatting amongst themselves or with the new students. It sounded like most had passed their tests with flying colors and rare was the downcast or sour faced student tonight.

One very large group was clustered near the center of the room, around an attractive and richly dressed student in her second year, and the silver haired feline chimera was clearly enjoying the attention. Her black furred tail swayed from side to side as she conversed with the various students gathered around her. Despite all the noise her voice was crystal clear and it was easy to overhear what she was saying from almost everywhere in the cafeteria.

As more students filed in for a well deserved and much needed meal the tone of the conversation was shifting from light and animated to somewhat more serious. One of the first years had asked about the abandoned building across the small river,. Yvette Urzenheim was happy to explain what she knew of it, even if the tone of that subject was a bit more grim.

[Color=cccccc]"Oh, you guys noticed the old abandoned schoolhouse on the hill to the west of the dorms? Is that not the creepiest place you have ever seen?! I heard that it was hundreds, maybe even a couple thousand years old. I'm glad they shut it down after... Whatever, the place just scares the hell out of me."[/color]

[Color=ffee88]"But aren't you a second year mage in training?"[/color] A short girl with a thick frontier accent piped up. She seemed unconvinced that an old building might actually spook the other girl, but at the same time she looked a unnerved at the possibility.

[Color=cccccc]"Yeah, I may be a second year, [sub]and top of my class,[/sub] but even [i]I[/i] won't go there! Especially at night, and [i]most definitely[/i] not tonight."[/color] Yvette answered, visibly shivering for a brief moment. 

[Color=ffee88]"Why not?"[/color] asked the same girl, her and several others now looking less comfortable with the recent turn of the conversation. [Color=ffee88]"What's so scary about an abandoned building? There were tons of those in my town. Worst that could happen was one fall on top of you."[/color]

[Color=cccccc]"No one's told you about that place? Oh, that's right, aheh, the staff doesn't like rumors going around... Ahh, never mind, just forget I said anything!"[/color] Yvette sincerely looked as if that critical piece of information had slipped her mind.

As Yvette tried to change the subject several people spoke up, protesting just leaving them hanging and pressing her for more information. Yvette resisted at first but it ultimately wasn't long before the peer pressure took their toll on the young chimera. Caving under the various pleading voices Yvette sighed before finally continuing.

[Color=cccccc]"Alright, alright! I guess I have already said a bit too much, haven't I? The least I can do is warn you all at this point."[/color] She leaned forward and lowered her voice, making it harder for the entire room to listen in. Her face was much more serious now and most of her audience became very quiet.

[Color=cccccc]"That place... is legitimately haunted."[/color]

The group fell silent at those words, and their expressions revealed a menagerie of expected reactions to such a revelation.