[Oct. 8/11] Common Room, the Dorms, Afternoon

[tomorrowrain]

It wasn't often that Raine showed his face openly in the common area. At least, not in the middle of the day. Especially not on a Saturday afternoon, when nobody was likely to be in classes, and the room was more than likely to have quite a few people in it.

But the fact was, he was hungry. And even if he didn't see anything resembling a warm welcome in the common area in his near future, being able to pinpoint when he'd have an opportunity to eat again in the future didn't change the fact that he was hungry now.

Maybe if he just... kind of kept his head down, he could slip in, grab some cereal or something, and slip out again before anyone started whispering too loudly.

The trick, he was learning all too quickly, was to just avoid eye contact and to not listen too closely to the people around him.

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[tomorrowrain]

"If you say so..." Raine sounded a little dubious, but he was going to let it slide, reaching for his cereal box again and opening it up. He wasn't going to... to crunch up any bits, though. He was going to just... maybe eat a handful while he still could. Some part of him was just flat-out convinced that he wasn't going to get a proper meal for a while, and that it would be best to maybe stuff his face when he could.

His senses didn't always make coherent sense, but he wasn't going to question something that seemed so innocuous.

"You probably want to consider getting some more proper rest tonight, though."

Now that was a laugh, coming from a guy who was practically a career insomniac, these days.