concoursec | (no subject)

Character(s): Yuri, Gwendolyn
Location: Dorm B109
Rating: PG
Open/Closed/Finished: Closed, unless your character might be dropping in on Gwendolyn
Summary: Gwendolyn's getting one and a half new roommates.

Yuri had: a gym bag with a net and roller hockey equipment slung over her shoulders, a few changes of clothes, a strange froglike creature on her head who flicked his ropey tongue out constantly, tasting the unfamiliar scents of this new place, and a new load of doubts and fears to add to the ones she had brought with her from home.

Here she was, a preteen refugee, thrown from a reality that was uncomfortable and scary but at the very least familiar, something she'd managed to fit herself into, into one that was huge and scary in entirely unknown ways. The idea that this might not be so, that she might be able to be comfortable here, liked, happy, simply didn't occur to her. If Kumi wasn't here, why would it?

But she swallowed all of that as she paused on the threshold of her new dorm. Being from Tokyo, she didn't much mind its small size, but she hoped her new roommate was nice at least.

"Hello? I'm sorry to intrude. I'm coming in." She said in hesitant Japanese (the device at her throat translating it first into the local vernacular) and stepped through.

Threaded | Flat

Gwendolyn had been told, of course, that she would be getting a new roommate this day - apparently, it had taken nearly a month for the faculty to notice Miku hadn't occupied her room at all. While she was glad to have someone to talk to in the dorms besides 'Lenneth' (or however the bird was addressing herself today), a part of her was wondering how long she would last - though if nothing else, maybe she would stop having that nightmare where she would wake up and greet a faceless Rin.

Seating on the common table, organizing her notes for the next day, she heard the voice - the foreign language and its dry translation something she had been familiarized with over the past quarter. She turned from where she was seated to take a look at the new arrival - a rather young one, at that - and greeted her: "Greetings. I trust you had a pleasant travel?" she asked, recalling that was a common way to greet a new arrival.