"Hey, guys!" Larishazza cheered as she skipped in through the front door with an orange glow following her. Thankfully, no one else came in after her. The crowds had gone for now, something must have driven them off.
"Alright, now, where is she?" a curious man asked as he quickly proved me wrong with his presence. It was our Head of House, Frihdeicalkbr.
"YOU!" I assumed straight of the bat when I saw the way his eyes sparkled with curiosity. But, he did not back down in fear, instead, he just smiled as his hands slipped into his pockets.
"Me, now, where is she?" he asked as he got back to the point he wanted pursued.
"I'm not telling you a th-" I began to growl out before he just brought up a screen. Yet, I did not move to grab him when he started to walk past me. I was fully aware of the likely consequences of something like that... And, as much as I cared for my friend, an instinctual selfishness kept me in check.
"So you are what our device picked up." Frihdeicalkbr said as he sat down before the scared ddrai'och. And, were it not for her lack of magic, I'm pretty sure that mug she had would've broken.
"G-Get away from me..." Liada let out fearfully before I stood between her and our Head of House. She was very familiar with the gaze of scientists and I would not let him provoke her.
"It's alright, it's alright." Frihdeicalkbr admitted with open hands as he stepped back before sitting down awkwardly. He did it intentionally too. He brought his chair too close to the table and chose one close to the wall... He was making it clear he was not going to try anything...?
"Have you got answers for what is going on out there!?" Einervaene jumped up to ask with a loud thud as her hands slammed the table.
"I do, on the condition I ask our curious friend here some questions of my own." Frihdeicalkbr said before a growl left Liada as she contradictorily retreated closer to me. And, when she did, he made a note of it on the tablet he had brought with him.
"What kind of questions?" I cautiously asked on Liada's behalf as I happily went along with her attempts to hide behind me.
"Simple ones, not particularly... Digging ones." he answered with a professional tone before he drummed his tools on the table.
"Do you want to?" I asked my friend as she started to calm down slightly.
"Will he go if I do? Will they all!?" she hysterically asked me with a tone that was too loud.
"I will, and, I can create measures if you want." Frihdeicalkbr answers to my shock.
"What kind of measures?" Liada asked with suddenly gained confidence as she practically rushed him down. Details he took note of as well when he had the space to.
"Obviously, I can't ban a student from parts of Suhurlodst Academy of Arcane Learning and Understanding. But, I can implement an exclusion zone around the dorm for non-residence of this dorm and the neighbouring buildings. Small things like that, however, I can also not do anything about the Reporatation and Documentation Club." he tells us as Liada backs away towards me.
"What do you want you know?" she asked him once she had regained her until recently, all but lost posture.
"Let's find out. First question, what is your name?"
"Liadanann."
"Hm, interesting pronunciation. Foreign." he comments.
Liada then looks back to me, "There's nothing wrong with the way I speak?" she asks me, hoping to get some support.
"It's fine, Liada, don't worry." I tell her, but, she frowns when I call her by her nickname. Maybe it was just the pressure getting to her, because she has had no issue with it before.
"Second question, what are you?" Frihdeicalkbr asked, interrupting my opportunity to reassure her.
"I'm a... Dd... Ddrai'och." she tells him as she silently begs me to take her hand. But, when I do, the resulting notes Frihdeicalkbr writes down makes her let go.
"I see, and, let me see. What sort of magic do you use?" he asks with a rather obvious motive. It was after all the same one that saw me become a student here. Which, in hindsight, I was thankful for as it meant I could live.
"I o-only have m-my..." Liada began to say before she went silent as she clutched her talisman.
"Supported caster, got it. Now, I think I can work with this. We'll send tablet work for the rest." he tells us before he gets up. His gaze, however, was locked on me and Vadei as he moved to leave.
"I take it..." I began to say as I believed I knew what that gaze was for. And he smiled before he brushed aside some of his black and grey hair.
"We'll talk about that, but, for now, make sure your new dormmate feels welcome." he tells us before he leaves before stopping.
"Sorry... I broke it in the rush to get in..." I say as I watched his gaze focus on the splinters.
"Your magic has changed." he comments before walking off. Which, left me confused as I wasn't sure how he picked that up from splinters and snapped doors.
"Well, I'ma take a shower." Larishazza hummed out with a whistle before she started to skip out of the room.
"Right." I let out with uncertainty as everyone started to calm down. But, my attention went straight back to Liada as she was fidgeting a lot.
"What does he mean by dormmate?" my friend asked in confusion as her hand clung to my chest when I got close enough.
"He means you are probably now a student here with us..." Einervaene answers for me as I was focused on stroking her backhand.
"Student...?" our friend let out in confusion before curled in on herself and sighed.
"Well, at least it means you get to stay with us without issue!" I nervously chuckle out as I watch her grow increasingly uncomfortable.
"I better not have to deal with any other..." she began to say before a cold air began to spread through the dorm. And when I turned around to see what it was, I was greeted by the enraged face of a sister. One whose touch was covering the room in frost and she was on a mission. Thankfully, it took her past us, but, I had to tend to Liada because of it.
Her lack of magic made her vastly more suspectable to the anger-driven aura.