At the dorms (Jack POV)

You just stepped off the sidewalk of the main road connecting the neighbourhoods when you saw her. A fox- kindred.

“Surprise” exclaimed Sydney who was walking beside you now.

“All three of us got invited to Esperanza Isle. I wasn’t sure until I saw you coming up the street. I suspected something like this because of our DRC background but like I said I wasn’t sure until I saw you.”

“Hi, Scarlet,” you say.

She was carrying a cup with a straw sticking out of it in her hand from which she stopped sipping when she saw you two coming up the street.

“Jack …” she uttered.

“And you knew it …!” she said looking accusing to a grinning Sydney.

“Not for sure … but I had a suspicion, “shot a still grinning Sydney back at her.

“Yeah, you missed this back and forth play,” you said to yourself while looking at your two youth friends.

They still look the same, grown-up but basically the same.
Scarlet could pass for an average pale freshmen girl that would even blend in at a Kith college with the sleeveless oversized shirt above a frilly skirt she was wearing. Except for her bushy fox tail which was a dead giveaway of her Kindred heritage. And of course her triangular fox ears.
Sydney however is Warrigal and thus expresses all the physical characteristics of her counterpart animal the fox. While the average fox warrigal has a more elongated body and a fairly narrow and elongated skull with a distinct narrower muzzle. Sydney has a more balanced body and a rounder face but still a distinct muzzle. So there are definitely some non-fox influences in the family tree. She also has slanted eyes with vertical-oriented oval pupils. And from the time you were mucking about at the DRC you remember that she has five digits hands and four-digit feet. But her most eye-catching feature is her large fluffy tail which is easily half her body height if not more. She also wears a more functional attire. Dark form-fitting outdoor style pants, modified of course to fit her tail, and a white top with a dark cut-off short-sleeved jacket on top. Unintentionally, or intentionally, drawing attention to her upper body.

Both girls have a more or less similar rectangular slender build and about the same C-cup boobs. But they look much more pronounced on the smaller lithe Scarlet than on the athletic Sydney. Scarlet is a little smaller than you let's say about 5 foot 7. But what really set them apart, besides the obvious of one being a Kindred and the other a Warrigal, is that Scarlet is a true ginger gal with a red tail, red ears, and shoulder-length ginger hair with bangs of various lengths and even her eyes have an amber-like shine about them while Sydney has burnt-fur and tail and strikingly platinum blond hair with seemingly randomized bangs and fittingly more brownish eyes.
Now with the old gang back together we head off to the actual dorm.

That’s when Scarlet pipes up, “You know what’s the best of all this … we are in the same dorm.”

And then she launches in an excited exposé about how fox-kin and Kith are considered medium size and the dorms are organized according to size.

And she concluded with “I knew there were gonna be new arrivals today because I saw the cargo shuttle drop luggage off at the Reception but I never could have thought you would be one of them.”

The dorms are arranged in a rough arc with the Reception at its center, a kind of central admin building for all the dorms. Your, our, dorm was more or less in the middle. A two-story building with a grass field around it and a central entry from the sidewalk.