School Year Starting Logs: Train + Feast/Sorting!

[shnpc]

WHO: Everyone!
TONE: Anything!
RATING: PG through PG-13
WHEN: The day of September 2nd for the train, and at night for the feast!
WHERE: Hogwarts Express/Platform 9 3/4 and The Great Hall
WHAT: Gotta get back to Hogwarts! Back to witches and wizards and magical feasts! Students and teachers are finally heading back to school on the Hogwarts express, and with the new school year means sorting for the first years!
STATUS: Ongoing!
NOTE: There is a thread for the Train back to Hogwarts, and the Feast, with a subthread for the Sorting! First years can comment to be sorted, and everyone else can greet their new house mates/students!

Comments

[bluhbluhhugestairs]

[So after some exploring of the train to relieve a bit of the pent up energy, he's finally just... Sitting down, staring out of the window anxiously. He's really excited to go back to school! Despite what happened, he's managed to at least not think about it for right now so that he could feel excited.

But also he's bored, because gosh the train ride is always so long and he's always so impatient.]

[dou8letrou8le]

[Suddenly there is a knock at his cabin door and before he has a chance to open it, Vriska beats him to it.]

I knew you were here somewhere.

[bluhbluhhugestairs]

[That voice... He hasn't heard it since camp. He instantly freezes when he hears it.

He had intended to talk to her at Diagon Alley, but he'd never been able to find her. Since then, he's just... put it in the back of his mind. Until now.

And he never expected the sound of her voice to scare him so much.]

Uh...Hi.

[dou8letrou8le]

[She closes the door behind her and takes a seat across from him. She still has her hair parted over her eye patch, but the straps are still visible through strands of blonde hair. She takes to looking out the window at the passing scenery.]

Do you plan to ignore me forever?

[bluhbluhhugestairs]

Wh- N...No! I wasn't- I... I..

[Stutteeeering forever.]

[dou8letrou8le]

You avoid me like a plague and you think I do not notice? Do you think me daft, Nitram? [She crosses her arms over her chest.]

Why do you hide from me?

[bluhbluhhugestairs]

[He opens his mouth to speak, but only a frightened sound comes out of his mouth. Suddenly he's just really scared. It reminds him of that day, when he did what he did to her. What if she attacks him again? He doesn't want to put her other eye out!]

I...I'm sorry! I just, um, I didn't... know what to say, or do... I wanted t-to talk to you at, uh, d-diagon alley, but you weren't there!

[dou8letrou8le]

[She goes silent listening to him, gaze not entirely focused on him.]

I was not feeling well and I did not go. [A pause.] Do you fear me?

[bluhbluhhugestairs]

I... I... N-No. It's more like, um, I... am afraid of myself, I think. Because I don't, uh... w-want to hurt you again.

[dou8letrou8le]

[At that she raised an eyebrow at him.] Do you know it was not your fault? [Even if she wanted to blame Tavros, she couldn't do it. Her anger was directed at whatever unseen force cast that spell on her.]

I could have killed you.

[bluhbluhhugestairs]

[He's quiet at her words, because it makes him feel even more scared. But it doesn't make him feel any less bad about what happened. Because he still took her eye out, and it just... makes him feel horrible.]

I... I know, but that doesn't matter so much to me, because... I, uh, still did a really shitty thing, to you.

[dou8letrou8le]

[She narrowed her eye again, before giving a small huff. While she enjoyed to an extent terrifying other students, having Tavros be an even bigger stuttering mess around her was just annoying.]

I forgive you.

[bluhbluhhugestairs]

[At this, Tavros is struck speechless. She forgives him? Why? He can't even fathom it because... What he did was just despicable.]

...You do? But... You shouldn't! You should hate me!

[dou8letrou8le]

[She shrugs, nonchalant.] I do not and that is that. You cannot change my mind now! Get over it.