Catherine Raines

April 05, 2005 11:47 AM
Catherine woke up slowly, blinking at the deep red canopy of her bed and wondering vaguely if she was still dreaming. Another blink and she remembered that she was at Sonora, a first year Crotalus on her first morning as a student. That thought alone was enough to give her sufficient energy to climb out of bed and assess her surroundings.

The first thing she registered was that she was alone. All of the other girls were still asleep, or at least still in bed with the curtains drawn. Just as well. Catherine needed time to prepare herself for the gazes of others. She knew now that her hang-back-and-watch strategy of the previous evening had been a horrible idea, but if she played her cards right then she could still make a place for herself among the others. She might not be able to lead a clique herself, but she would settle for getting into the most powerful one that had formed.

Opening her trunk, she surveyed her clothes like a general surveying soldiers before a battle. Clothes would be one of the first things anyone saw, so she would have to take care with them. She didn't want anything that made her seem tacky by flaunting her wealth, but she did want anyone who saw it to know that she was rich, not to mention that it had to go with her dark green school robes. After some mental deliberation, she settled on a jade green dress that would set off the color of the robes nicely and pulled it on, snapping the silver fasteners of her robes over it and surveying herself in the mirror. Perfect.

She began thinking about the year ahead as she pulled a brush through her heavy hair in front of her mirror. One thing both of her parents had been very explicit on was the importance of who she knew and how she acted. For her, Sonora was to be more of an introduction into society than an educational expirience, as she would marry some rich pureblood and have four or five pureblood children and never do anything so productive that it required more than social expirience for the rest of her life after she left the Arizona desert for the last time. She would have to be unendingly charming except to carefully chosen enemies and never forget for a moment who she was and why she was there.

In a rare moment of weakness, she accidentally allowed the full weight of her role as a Crotalus hit her and felt suddenly exhausted. It would be a seven-year act where she could never leave the stage, followed by a lifetime act where she could never leave the stage. For a moment, her creamy-skinned beauty faded, making her look, in her own eyes as she stared at her reflection, pale and haggard, her blue eyes dull,her brown hair limp and lusterless. Then she smiled again, the dazzling Raines smile, and was herself. It was the life she had been born to, and there was nothing anyone could be better at doing than what they were born to do.

Once her makeup was applied, she pinched her cheeks to give them a little extra color and stood back, admiring herself in the mirror and waiting for her life for the next seven years to start with the awakening of one of her dormmates. \n\n
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Catherine

April 05, 2005 4:38 PM
Catherine's mouth twisted a little when she heard someone drawl out 'good morning' in an accent as horrendous as her mother's. The other girl obviously had little or no breeding, talking like that when she could have learned to speak properly, not to mention that she had been sitting with a Teppenpaw and another girl that Catherine was almost sure was no pureblood at the feast, meaning that by extention that the Southern girl had to be a loser too. She noticed Nicoletta's slight gesture to block the blonde out of the conversation and it immediately confirmed Catherine's idea that Nicoletta was someone she wanted to know.

"I gladly accept the invitation," she said, smiling graciously. "And no, I haven't met Jordanna and Skyla yet, but I'm sure the pleasure will be mine when I do." At almost that moment, another girl dressed with very good style came over to them and introduced herself as Jordanna Howard. Catherine carefully took stock of her. Jordanna would be a force to be reckoned with if you were an enemy of hers, making her a very good ally in Catherine's mind.

"Catherine Raines," Catherine returned, working hard to suppress triumph as Jordanna asked Nicoletta if her glasses were too much. It was a bit early to tell for certain, but she had a feeling she had passed the silent test Nicoletta had been administering. She had been given a choice that was no choice at all: her own kind or losers. It hadn't been a hard choice to make.


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