[h2]Jennifer Whittemore[/h2]

"Hoshiko, right," Jennifer said, nodding and looking at the one who'd corrected her. It was that guy with the really odd name, Rune... something? And [i]damn[/i] he was big, although happily this wasn't [i]surprising[/i], just... well, the part where someone [i]so comparatively huge[/i] had wound up in the seat beside her and she hadn't even registered it until he said something really showed that she wasn't paying enough attention to what was going on.

So did the broth dripping into the bowl. Less staring at the huge guy, more finishing her lunch.

And hey, at least she wasn't the only one making mistakes with names! Where had she even pulled the 'stone' from? That didn't even sound slightly similar. Did the other girl know somebody else with that name, or was she just that bad with English?

"Well, we can't really be split into more than two teams," the small girl noted with a slight shrug, "There aren't enough of us for more. Maybe it's just going to be more of a rotating schedule? Some days you'll be on the slightly bigger team, some days on the smaller one."

Which was another thing to have to track. Damn.