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Lucette froze with pork halfway in her mouth when Kuai announced that dinner will end soon before groaning alongside the recruits. Its always hard to choose between bed or food. Especially really good food. She mostly just been spending her time eating and watching the other recruits and how they conduct themselves. They all seemed.....normal. Well, normal in a middle class way. If this had been a dinner with the Royal Court, it probably would’ve been a lot quieter, with sharp venomous glares being thrown at various other nobles. A poisonous cloud, figuratively and sometimes literally.
Here however, there was a atmosphere of camaraderie and comfort. Conversation was lively and constant and filled the room. It reminded Lucette sorely of home. Not the palace but of simpler times. Where she and her grandfather and her parents would gather around a simple wooden table and trade stories of adventures and funny moments, Lucette, small as she was back then, always chirping up with a statement or two.
The flood of memories made Lucette homesick but this was one that couldn’t be cured by returning home. Because even if she did, nobody would be there. All the persons that should’ve been, are long gone from this plane.
‘You humans have a tendency of making yourselves feel worse when you’re already sad. I don’t understand it. You live too much in the past, my dear. And your grief from it is preventing you from enjoying the presenting.’ Lucette sighed sadly, knowing that she was right. But it was so hard. An atmosphere of grief hung over Lucette. She was glad that nobody noticed. She didn’t want to ruin anyone else’s mood.
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Seeing the gesture, Lucette quickly made her way and sat down behind an empty table, looking at the plates of food before her and scooping some onto her plate.
“At least the food looks normal.” Lucette ate some rice, her eyes looking around the room in curiosity. It was beautiful place, in her opinion though its beauty was of a different kind than Valencia’s. But everything around her reminded her of Mooshu. She wonders if all of Earth was like this.
An odd noise caught her attention and she turned her head to glance at the man called Bi-Han, arching a confused eyebrow at his odd behavior before catching sight of the flush on his cheeks and the bottle in his hand and sighed heavily, rolling her eyes. ‘Nice to know that men still act the same even here.’ Lucette silently agreed and continued to eat her food in peace.
As the din of dinner died down, Kuai Liang looked up, surveying the various recruits sitting around the halls: “Half an hour left! Then it’ll be time to clean up and prepare for lights out.”
A few grumbles; nothing out of the ordinary.
He glances at his brother, shaking his head fondly as he finished off the last bit of the drink he had given him. Big scary Bi-Han, grandmaster of the Lin Kuei, he could claim to be as hardened as he was, and in a way, he wasn’t wrong: Bi-Han was a dangerous warrior sharpened with years of experience that made him a formidable fighter. Yet undeniably he was also quite unused to handling emotions, neither hiding them away nor openly displaying them.
His brother was a confusing mess, to say the least.
A shadowy mass materializes behind the elder cryomancer, looking quite comically unamused with pure white eyes. Sometimes, he was admittedly quite curious as to what the shadow thought, being the one to deal with his older brother at all times. Not a job that he would trade for, even if he did love him to death.
Kuai turned to his own plates, gulping down the last few bites of the pork belly and hot tea -
Takuya leaned over to a fellow recruit: “Think Master Hasashi would come to visit anytime soon from the Fire Gardens?”
The girl turned, arching an eyebrow. “Wasn’t he here last week?”