Day 30: Cafeteria, Dinner

[captain-hunam.livejournal.com]

The cafeteria was all but empty when Zelnick got there. He was a little disappointed; he had gotten the impression that patients usually ate dinner in their rooms, so he hadn't arranged to meet anyone, and there really wasn't anyone to sit by and engage in conversation yet.

Quietly, he collected dinner and a big glass of orange juice, and chose a seat near the food-serving counters. Talking for so long had made him thirsty... and, well, fruit juice was a luxury he had missed.

[Stalk away, my dearest Admiral. <3 ]

Comments

[heartcrown.livejournal.com]

“Renji …” Kairi whispered, releasing his arm once she was sure he wasn’t going to topple over, “you didn’t need to do that … especially if something happens tonight.” Though, nothing could be changed now. Looking down to her wrapped up hand, she slowly began to unwind the bandages from around her hand. Once the appendage was free, she flexed her fingers and smiled. “But … thank you.”

Turning to look at Sora once he sat down on her other side, Kairi smiled and waved her now healed hand. “It’s fine! How’re you, Sora?”

She suspected that he had already known Harry considering how friendly he was being, so she didn’t introduce him or anything.

[undesirableone.livejournal.com]

Harry was interested in what Renji had really done, because he hadn't used a wand or anything and if it was possible for him to learn then he wanted to at least try. The problem was that Renji also seemed a little out of it, so maybe he should wait to ask about it.

Whatever else he was going to say about it though was driven from his mind when Sora came to the table. He smiled slightly. "Sora," he said, recognizing the new comer to their table. "Have you seen a girl with lots of brown hair named Hermione?" He was happy to see Sora, of course, but Hermione was still on the front of his mind. He still couldn't see her anywhere in the crowd, and the mess hall was starting to fill up.

[norainu]

"Don't worry about it," Renji said, then cleared his throat. "It'll work out okay tonight, since I'll be with taichou. You need both your hands. If something happens." He turned to give Sora a broad grin. "Yeah, sure. Join us."

He leaned his elbows on the table, rubbing his eyes. He just needed to get over the fatigue from using the kidou.

[lighthearted]

Like he had figured, none of them protested him joining their conversation, so Sora took that as his cue to start shoveling food into his mouth. He tried not to be impolite, but he was starved and it was hard to hold back.

It was when he was in the middle of chewing that he heard Harry's question. As he finished and swallowed the food, he thought it over and eventually shook his head.

"No, I'm sorry. I'll keep an eye out for her, though." If one of the boy's friends was missing, then Sora could definitely sympathize with that. "So," he continued, glancing them all over, "what were you guys talking about?"

[heartcrown.livejournal.com]

“Just chatting, really,” Kairi perked up after Sora’s question, a smile crossing her lips as she turned back to look at Harry. She really did feel bad about his missing friend – her and Sora knew all about that.

Trying to start off a new topic, the once Princess tilted her head to the side and regarded Harry with a curious expression. “So, can you tell me any more about your magic school? It sounds pretty awesome. I mean, back on Destiny Islands, school is just … school. Is your kind of magic hard to learn?”

Smalltalk, really. She just wanted the mood to lighten.

[undesirableone.livejournal.com]

Harry watched Renji with a concerned face but Kairi's question snapped him back into their conversation.

"Oh," he said, pushing his glasses up on his nose. "Um... Well, it's just school too, only instead of learning arithmetic or writing you learn how to turn a tea cozy into a bird or how to make a feather fly across the room. I went to Muggle school until I was eleven, then the letter came inviting me to go to Hogwarts. Uh, Hogwarts is the name of the wizard school in the United Kingdom. My favorite class was Defense Against the Dark Arts... although some years it wasn't as nice as others." He rubbed his scared hand at the memory of Umbridge forcing him to cut the words into it. "Hermione was the smartest witch at the school." He looked around again, trying to catch any sight of her, but he still couldn't see her anywhere.

[norainu]

"Some about that thing that was in the MU hallway a couple nights ago. Sounds like we did about the best we could with it," he said.

He listened to Harry's explanation of the school, and had to wonder if it all sounded so ridiculous because he was still a little dizzy. "Hog... warts," he repeated quietly to himself. It was the oddest name he'd ever heard. He wondered if it was literal, and in that case, why the hell anyone would name a school that. "Sounds... kinda like the academy." He sounded a bit doubtful though.

He felt bad that Harry was still worrying about his friend. He knew how that went. "Don't suppose you could tell me what her soul feels like. I could try lookin' for her then," he offered. He wasn't certain how well that would work out, really, checking on a description, but it'd be better than nothing.

[lighthearted]

[ Sorry for the delay! ]

At the memory of that phantom they had encountered in the M-U hallway, Sora had to suppress a shudder. He could almost remember what it had felt like being around that thing, and it wasn't something he wanted to revisit. It had all turned out okay in the end, but he was hoping he could avoid that creature in the future if at all possible.

Hearing about a magic school, Sora focused on the much more exciting topic. A whole school just to learn magic -- he wondered if Donald had gone to anything like that! "I knew an old man who taught me a lot about magic," he said, smiling at the memory of the strange house behind the Third District of Traverse Town. "His name was Merlin, and he could do cool stuff like make the furniture in his house float around!" Granted, Sora had learned a lot of neat tricks himself, but it wasn't like he could show off any of it in this place.