Nat Varth
March 03, 2016 6:17 PM
A Raine Day Indoors (tag: Raine) by Nat Varth
It was inexcusable that she hadn’t done this earlier. Making friends was important, a task she had been happy to perform, but making friends with all of her fellow first year Tepps except her roommate was unseemly. She talked to Raine when they were in the room together but with their missing each other a lot because of Nat’s practicing sessions with Gabe on the pitch and the MARS room, different sleeping schedules, and all around unluckiness they hadn’t gotten to a point where they’d gotten to a real “roommate” feel.Natalie was determined to change that.
Transfiguration classes were her favorite so far (aside for flying of course) and though she didn’t spend time after class, once she finished her class work she spent a lot of the remaining class time practicing other things in the textbook. But once Nat had the idea, she decided it was worth it to stay behind and ask for Professor Skies’ help in learning a particular spell. As Professor Xavier had reminded everyone their first day, furniture was not to be removed from the common room- this proved a problem to her initial set up ideas. Not wanting to give the idea up, though, she sought out Skies’ help to figure out an alternative.
And woila. Her tutoring had proved successful. Where her small, cleared out trunk had been now stood a small, fancy, circular table, perfect for the dessert tray she had borrowed from the kitchen. In addition to the tray itself, they had filled it with various cookies and pastries on the first two tiers, and Natalie’s own made-from-scratch muffins made up the bottom third. The prairie elves had also helped in attaining flowers from the labyrinth, flowers Natalie had learned the hard way were not always safe to pick haphazardly. Whatever the flowers were, they were beautiful.
Now it was time for the non magical decoration- streamers. Streamers, thank goodness, were apparently obtainable no matter where in the country you were. Although it had been difficult to find non-magical streamers (ones that sang, ones that shimmered, even ones that constantly twirled and did tricks in the air for your viewing pleasure were more prominently feautured) she had tracked some down that would simply hang and be background decoration.
After tidying up her bed area (shoving the contents of her now transfigured trunk under her bed) and lining up the edges of the books she had borrowed on her bed side table, she stepped back to admire the splendor of her hard work. It was. . . not all that different, but really, how could she make an already fabulous room even more fabulous? Maybe she should’ve gone with the shining streamers.
It was too late to do anything about it now. She could’ve looked in her textbook for a charm to make them sparkle at least but she didn’t have the courage to try it out alone. As much as she Gabe, she didn’t want to follow in her best friend’s steps and cause any explosions. That would be a less welcoming surprise for Raine.
As it turned out she only had enough time to grab the popper off the corner of her bed as she heard the soft shuffling noise of someone coming up the stone stairwell. Standing behind the door she waited for Raine to enter.
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Raine Collindale
March 18, 2016 8:27 AM
What's the occasion? by Raine Collindale
Sharing a room was proving to be one of the best things about Sonora. It was a situation Raine was more than used to, as their family nearly permanently lived in tents. Normally, her room-mate was Kyte, and sometimes there were extra cousins squeezed in, or their older brother, Starr. At Sonora, it could have been very different. If her room-mates had been unkind, it would have been a particular kind of torture to be trapped in such an intimate setting with them, but luckily for her she had Natalie, who was simply lovely. The other girl was very chatty. Whilst Raine wasn't a talkative person herself, she generally enjoyed being with other people, and so who those who found it easy to fill in her silences were very welcome – Natalie was very able to do that, without seeming put off by Raine's own quietness. She tried not to compare sharing a room with Natalie to sharing one with Kyte because she knew who her favourite would always be and it just didn't seem fair, but on this point, Natalie made a favourable comparison. She was like Kyte in the way she talked and shared without making Raine feel inadequate or unfriendly for not doing the same. She and Natalie didn't always overlap a lot in terms of their schedules, but this didn't stop Natalie giving her this free and easy conversation. Whilst Sonora was still very strange to her, her own room had a touch of home about it because of her room-mate.Her day so far had not been anything out of the ordinary. She had met up with Kyte in the morning to practise their circus skills in MARS. It was hard work, trying to train themselves, away from the advice of their family, but they had to keep at it. And at least they had each other. They had eaten lunch, and twirling around in mid-air did not suit a full stomach, so she had gone for a walk. Now, she supposed, she should start her Potions homework, and so was returning to the dormitory with a sinking feeling. In spite of all the extra help from Professor Skies, she was still awful at any kind of academic writing. She wished she could spend all of her time on circus skills and practical magic, like she would have done at home. They were the things she really needed in life. The writing was useless to her and she was useless at it.
She gave a squeak of surprise as her entrance to the dorm room was accompanied by a load bang and something landing in her wild brown hair. It turned out to be a shower of paper, from a party popper that Natalie was holding. Glancing around the room, there were a number of other differences, such as the streamers and the tea table. Clearly they were having some kind of party.
“Is it your birthday?” she guessed, trying desperately to think whether birthdays was a detail she and Natalie had exchanged before, and feeling a little guilty that her room mate seemed to have had to resort to throwing herself a party, if that was the occasion.
OOC – details about Raine and Natalie's relationship agreed with the author, along with the fact that she would have party-poppered Raine as she came in.
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