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Location ▶ Cafeteria
Time ▶ Morning
Interactions/Mentions ▶ @CosmicComet, @QueenNugget
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Karina quietly sat at her table, nibbling on the butter and syrup covered waffles. Since no one had made any attempt to sit with her yet she had decided to take out her cellphone and began to scroll through the different social media apps that she had, just lazily looking at pointless pictures of animals. It startled her when she heard someone speak and sit down across from her. Karina looked up from her device to see a girl with blonde hair, she looked vaguely familiar however she couldn't put a name to her face. They had one or two classes together the year before and she felt terrible for not remembering her name. "Oh...okay." She honestly was caught off guard and was trying to process a good response. "I'm Karina...why do I seem sane? Everyone else here seems like decent enough." She asked curiously. Did she stand out compared to others? Sure she had a hard time interacting with people but surely that couldn't be seen from just a glance....could it? Suddenly the Russian began to worry that maybe she was putting off bad vibes or something. Then again perhaps she meant she wasn't like the rest of the girls here, screaming and gossiping children who couldn't help but to get into other people's business. Karina had experienced that on more than one occasion last year, people kept trying to pry into her personal life even though she didn't give them any inkling that she wanted people to know about her.
It wasn't long though before another person decided to join her, though this one she was more familiar with. "Dobroe utro, Nadia. As well as one can sleep in a room filled with annoying girls....aside from you guys though." She scrambled to say the last part to include Meredith and Nadia, the last thing she needed was to insult someone in the first week. Karina once again began to slowly pick at her food, taking small bites of the yogurt and letting it melt in her mouth. "What's your guys' day looking to be? We're starting to learn the basics of why we use familiars in summoning, I think it's pretty interesting." She said, she was trying very hard to hold her tongue and to not go on a random tangent. She had a bad habit of just going on and on about the things she liked, she just got so excited that she couldn't help herself sometimes. "Are you guys taking any classes that your excited about?" She decided to ask a simple question, one that included them both. She wanted to make friends.
This year Karina wanted to have people she could take to. The year before had been hard and honestly very lonely, even though she had tried what she thought was best to make friends it simply backfired. Apparently "Being yourself" wasn't the right way to go about things - in the end all she had done was given herself a not-so-great reputation. When her mother had asked her if she had friends she had lied and told her she had made a bunch, her parents still disapproved of her leaving so she didn't want to give them any grounds to chastise her. As if feeling her nervousness Volkier seemed to appear out of nowhere, bumping her hand from underneath the table. She let out a small gasp, she had expected the wolf to stay outside since he seemed to dislike crowds. Karina smiled a little and patted the canine on the head, "Thanks Volkier" she said telepathically to him. "Don't worry, rebenok. You will do fine this year, don't hide who you really are. You would only be lying to yourself and those around you if you did."
While that was true she wasn't sure if it would work....but she would do what her familiar said. Volkier slid out from under the table, being careful to avoid the other female's legs and sat behind Karina, laying his large head on her lap quietly. Karina patted his head while she looked up to Meredith and Nadia with a smile, feeling much better about talking with them.
