Rori felt somewhat excited as the journey ended. They were certainly looking forward to this year, and to meeting all the new students that were around. Though they were sure that quite a few around were nowhere near as happy as Rori was to be in this place.
They were quite pleased to spot a familiar face upon entering the auditorium, having worried that their cousin had somehow jumped off the ship and swam back to shore to avoid coming to the academy. They moved over to sit beside Max, earning nothing more than a glare in response as the Head Mistress began to speak.
"So what's the food like here?" Max finally spoke to her cousin as the two of them headed over to the cafeteria with the masses. She didn't look particularly pleased to be here, but the least she could do was find out what it was like.
"Very good," Rori grinned in response, before shrugging. "You'll find out for yourself if you don't want to take my word for it. This place really isn't as bad as you think it is. Though me saying that isn't going to change your mind."
"It certainly isn't." Max replied as she went to get some food. It was certainly nice to have a selection without having to cook it for herself. Her uncle was particularly useless at cooking and she, unfortunately, was not much better. The last week or so had been nice since Rori seemed to have some small amount of cooking ability. Rori didn't have much to eat at all but sat with their cousin as she ate to her heart's content.
"Thoughts?" Rori's smile was slightly teasing as Max and they both stood up.
"Adequate," Max retorted, not particularly looking to say any more. She stood in silence as the two of them waited in the queue to get their rooms. Rori talked, but it was more at Max than to her considering the eighteen year old had returned to a more grump demeanour at the thought of having to talk to someone who wasn't her cousin. It wasn't that she didn't like people in general, it was just that there were a lot of people she couldn't tolerate. Although she might find a few people that she could get along with... And there might be some who were attractive. That would certainly be nice.
"I'll show you to your room, if you want," Rori with a smile. They were always smiling, and that was beginning to get on Max's nerves just a little.
Max shook her head. "I can find my own way around. You'll find it easier to make friends without hanging round me, anyway. Try not to freak out your roommate too much by being all bird-like, yeah?" Without saying anything else Max grabbed her luggage and went off in the direction she was pretty sure led to her room.
Syn only paid attention to half of what the head mistress said. She was sure it wasn't very important. The rules would be easy enough to follow. It was hardly like she was a criminal. Well, she done just a little bit of hacking. But it had hardly been harmful. It had all been for her own benefit after all. She had just wanted more information on metahumans... And now she guessed she was going to get it. Just not in the way she had originally wanted to.
Feeling a bit nauseous after the boat journey she decided it was probably best to skip going to the cafeteria and instead went to collect her two rather large bags and join the queue to get her room. It was thankfully short enough at the moment because a good amount of students seemed to be eating. Soon enough she got her room and directions on how to get there.
Of course they had room mates here. Great. Well she hoped that this Casey Calahan person didn't have any problems with having a room mate who slept odd hours and didn't particularly care about how noisy she was when building things. Because Syn certainly wasn't in a hurry to change those things. She'd been forced to come to this school and she wasn't going to let it stop her from building things.
The room she ended up at was nice enough. There wasn't as much space as she would have liked but she had expected that. She put one of her suitcases, the one full of unimportant things such as clothes, at the end of the bed she had decided was going to be hers. She set the other on her bed and pulled her laptop out of it. She thankfully still had most of her files on her laptop, though NEST agents had purged anything that could aid her hacking and put some kind of software on it to prevent that happening in the future. She would get around it anyway.
She decided not to head to the student lounge. After all why would she go get to know people when she could stay in this room and program? She only hoped that her room mate wouldn't disturb her too much. That'd be a tad... annoying. But it didn't matter she could ignore her if that seemed like a good option.
@Maxx
Rori was a bit disappointed when Max didn't take them up on their offer. However part of what she had said was right. Rori would probably have an easy time getting along with people without an angry looking cousin hanging on their shoulder. So they set of for their room, dragging the small suitcase they had along behind them. They hardly had much to their name, still just enough clothes to get by. They didn't really see the need for much more while at this school.
The room they had been assigned was pretty similar to the one they had had last year, as would be expected of the rooms in the school. Deciding it would be good to wait for their room mate, who Rori was pretty sure was called Kiri or something similar (they'd never had the best memory), they took the time to begin unpacking the suitcase. It didn't take long at all due to the general lack of things in it. They put their violin, which had been carried separately, in a corner against the wall. Apart from a tin whistle it was the only instrument of the ones that they could play that they owned, unfortunately. But it was better than nothing.
Having finished unpacking Rori decided to wait a short while and then, if their room mate didn't show, they would head down to the student lounge.
@Mr Allen J
It took Max a little longer than expected to find where her room was. Maybe she should have taken her cousin up on their offer but the constant chatter had been getting a bit to Max's head. She'd wanted some peace and quiet and she could only hope she'd get it.
She was relieved to find her room, once she reached it, was empty. It would give her a little time alone at least. She threw her suitcase against the wall, not particularly caring about its contents or bothered to unpack this. The whole having a room mate thing was infuriating. The last thing Max wanted to do was sleep in a room with someone else. Max wasn't sure that she'd be able to resist killing someone in their sleep if they annoyed her too much.
Though she guessed it could have been worse. She could have more than one room mate. She considered going down to the student lounge before realising that Rori would probably head down there. She'd wait up here for just a little bit and then probably explore.
@Mr Allen J
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