Leaving a slice of toast in her mouth, Rahvi collected all of her belongings, slinging her bag over her shoulder and wrapping some food up in a napkin for Mikida, who must have overslept.
Hopping off the bench, Rahvi nodded at Ella, seeing Jagton and Steven conversing with Borghild. "They'll figure out the deal with classes. Let's go collect Miki and then we can all take the scenic route to class."
Walking towards the doors, still somewhat giddy from her first interaction with Rilker, she called over her shoulder. "Steven, beastboy, you coming?"
Giving herself a headstart on account of her boredom and short legs, Rahvi led the way back up towards their rooms. She was torn between a thirst for the new knowledge that waited for her in the classroom and the secrets held within the walls that she glimpsed at corners, hearing whispers from keyholes, and flitting lights across the ceiling. The very floor beneath her feet hummed with the unknown and Rahvi felt a hunger spring to life inside her to know as much of this chaotic place as she could find, whether the secrets were taught to her in classrooms or she dug them up from under the floorboards. This place would be hers. Already she could feel it settle in her ribcage, her soul reaching out to include this place in what she called home. She would know it as well as she knew herself, layer upon layer of the unknowable twining between the solid facts as inevitable as the sunrise and as solid as the stone around her.
Sharp eyes taking in every detail of the hall, it wasn't surprising that the first thing Rahvi saw when they met Mikida and a guard walking towards them was the dark bruise forming around her wrist. Her heart clenched and released, a hard weight shattering her reverie. The shadows were deep in this place.
Concern clear on her face, Rahvi enveloped Miki in a hug. "So you are awake. Replaced us with new friends already?" she joked, sensing that Miki didn’t want a reminder of whatever had just happened. If she wanted to tell, she would talk in her own time. Rahvi handed over the breakfast she had saved for her friend.