[color=deepskyblue][b]Character Name:[/b][/color] Anyu
[color=deepskyblue][b]Time of Day:[/b][/color] Early morning
[color=deepskyblue][b]Location:[/b][/color] The common room of the dormitory
[color=deepskyblue][b]Interacting with:[/b][/color] Mama Tiana ([@Stitches]), Marius Sirvaki ([@ShwiggityShwah]), Sylvana ([@Etranger]), Artemis ([@FurFox]), Orky ([@OrkytheOrc])

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Anyu didn’t really get to look around the common room and its furnishings for very long before she heard the slow and steady footfalls approaching the top of the stairs.  Realizing that she wouldn’t be able to hide before whoever it was stepped into the room and saw her, Anyu instead turned to watch as the person entered the room, her tail and ears twitching occasionally.  Had anyone else been in the room, they may have noticed a sudden chill in the air as short-lived snowflakes began to fall gently around Anyu while she stood there and stared at the closed door.

Moments later, an incredibly large man ducked through the doorway into the common room itself, stopping short when he made eye contact with Anyu.   [color=deepskyblue][i]”Did I do something wrong?  That must be why he’s so quiet.  He’s angry at me and trying to think of how to yell at me,”[/i][/color] Anyu thought as the silence between them stretched on, lowering her eyes to stare at her feet as she waited for the brusque-looking individual to say something.  Finally, after what seemed like an eternity to Anyu, the man spoke up with his gruff voice, causing Anyu to flinch despite the fact that he was merely introducing himself as Orky.

Before Anyu could overcome her surprise that Orky apparently wasn’t angry with her and muster up the courage to tell him her name as he requested, a woman with silver hair entered the room behind him and moved to place her bags onto a nearby table.  The suddenness of the woman’s appearance caused Anyu to take a few steps further from the door, the chill in the air intensifying slightly until she was at a more comfortable distance from the others.  Certain that the elegantly-dressed woman’s salutation hadn’t been directed at her, Anyu opened her mouth to tell Orky her name before he began to suspect that she was trying to ignore him.

Unfortunately, Anyu hadn’t been able to do much more than open her mouth before the door behind Orky suddenly exploded inward with a resounding crash to reveal a man with fiery red hair who was shouting about villains and ambushes.  The sudden noise elicited a faint shriek from Anyu as she flinched away from the door and collapsed into a sitting position.  In her panic, her magic surged, coating the carpet she had been standing on in a thin layer of ice as snowflakes fell all around her.  Meanwhile, the man behind the door had stepped through, revealing that he was covered in a variety of bandages, and started shouting about students being in his dormitory.  [i][color=deepskyblue]”Did that official make a mistake when he brought me here?”[/color][/i] Anyu thought guiltily as she hugged her knees to her chest, a hollow pit forming in her stomach.

Before Anyu could worry herself too much about whether or not she was responsible for the fiery man’s anger, he had calmed down a bit, though he was still peering at everyone in the room suspiciously as he talked about retainers, whatever those were.  Meanwhile, Orky had dashed out of the room and down the stairs while screaming about a mummy, which seemed to put the fiery-headed man on edge again from the way he jumped about as if he expected to be attacked.  To make matters even more confusing, a lithe Sun Elf woman hurried into the room shortly after Orky left and promptly began laughing hysterically at something.  Then another fair-skinned woman with dark hair darted into the room, though she was apparently concerned that something bad had happened from the questions she asked.

As the commotion died down in the common room, Anyu managed to calm herself down a little and get back on her feet, though the cracking of ice when she moved made her realize that she had accidentally used her magic when the door had been blown open. [i][color=deepskyblue]”I hope that’s not a big deal,”[/color][/i] she thought with a grimace as she finished standing up.  She didn’t have much time to worry about how upset the Guild would be with her for potentially ruining what looked like an expensive rug, however, as the bandaged man suddenly fell to his knees and began raging about villains again.  

If that hadn’t been surprising enough to cut through Anyu’s guilt about the rug, the roar of anger as the door was thrown open to reveal a short, matronly woman would have been.  The new arrival wasted no time in scolding the fiery-haired man, whom the woman referred to as Marius Sirvaki, mostly for his use of magic in the halls and his threatening of the other students.  Upon hearing that the use of magic in the dormitories was apparently considered to be a very serious crime, Anyu began to squirm and wring her hands together.  [color=deepskyblue][i]”Will she believe that I don’t mean to make it snow or that I didn’t mean to freeze the rug?”[/i][/color] she thought, feeling nauseous as snowflakes continued to fall around her.  While she didn’t exactly understand the punishment that the older woman described, Anyu knew from her tone that it couldn’t be anything good.  

Anyu realized suddenly that the woman’s scolding of Marius Sirvaki had ceased and that the man had begun eyeing each of the other students in the room as if he was weighing them on invisible scales in order to determine their worth.  When he directed that intense gaze at her, she couldn’t help but flinch slightly, certain that he saw how wicked she truly was in that stare.  Regardless of what he saw, he moved his gaze to the next person in the room and continued his study.  Though Anyu hoped that he wouldn’t go around telling everyone what he had seen, she had more pressing things to think about at the moment, namely her use of magic in the dorms.

While worrying about what was going to happen to her when the motherly woman noticed her use of magic, Anyu had contemplated the idea of hiding away in her room for a while.  Now, of course, the time was passed.  If the others hadn’t noticed the snow falling around her or the frozen carpet, they had to be blind.  Plus, she really didn’t think that the authoritative woman would appreciate her attempts to get away.  And so, even when Orky returned and distracted everyone by bowing to the woman and thanking her for taking care of the mummy, Anyu remained where she was, fidgeting occasionally.