Fairly normal, though getting to know the others

Byleth made his way down to the party with Shez, Sothis floating behind them. Kinda defeated the point of giving her permission for her legs back, other than removing her lamp-tether, but whatever.

"Welcome Back, Professor." Edelgard greeted him as they returned to the dining hall, an impressive spread set out on one of the tables. As he grabbed himself a plate, he looked around as the chatter resumed. Bernadetta was hiding at the far end of the table. Caspar was shoveling all the food he could into his mouth. "You're going to **** like that..." Linhart sighed as he ate slowly. Those two seemed like they were each other's foils. Everyone seemed to be happily occupied for the moment, so Byleth focused on the other 3 girls in the house he hadn't managed to 'assess' yet.

To his surprise. Edelgard had a preference for dominance, but also a desire to give up control to someone she trusts unconditionally. Given her own sense of authority, Byleth would not have guessed that. As for Bernie, it seemed she was surprisingly assertive sub as part of it, along with large scale roleplay. Given her current skittish demeanor, it seemed getting that out of her would take some work.

"Professor..."

Moving to the last girl in his class, Petra, she appeared to be a sort of competitive switch, preferring to fight for dominance in the bedroom, win or lose. That was good to know-

"Professor?" His awareness was brought back when Dorothea suddenly gave him a playful nudge. "You okay? It took a while to get your attention back." Byleth shook his head, before looking at the young songstress. "Sorry, I was lost in thought." He apologized, thankful for his natural poker face - he imagined it would be hard for most people to keep their face straight when Sothis was groping and bouncing Dorothea's bountiful chest in front of you.

"Ah." She paused, ignorant of the blush on her face. "I was just wondering if you were used to parties like this." She asked while Ferdinand was chatting away with Hubert."

"I suppose I've had a few. We usually had something to celebrate after a job well done, so we've had smaller, but that was mostly due to the Jeralt mercenaries being a larger group. It also wasn't this neat, given they were mostly in taverns." He nodded to her, Dorothea smiling back. "I've also heard you hadn't had much exposure to the Church of Seiros before now."

Byleth nodded again to that. "Dad never mentioned the church. No one else in the band ever brought it up around me either." He said with a shrug. "Really?" Edelgard walked over to join the conversation, looking up curiously at him. "I'd heard the rumors, but given how far spread the church is in Fodlan, it seems odd that you'd have no exposure to it at all." All Byleth could do was shrug again. "I don't know why either."

"I am not finding the not knowing of the Church that odd." Petra suddenly joined the conversation, drawing their attention. "The people of Brigid are still more familiar with our old shamanistic practices, even after the Empire brought the Church over to our islands." Byleth suddenly caught a **** noise at those words. His eyes were drawn to Caspar, Shez giving him the Heimlich maneuver to help him out. LInhart was just shaking his head at this. "I told you you'd **** like that..."

Byleth returned his focus to the conversation after that, finding Sothis had moved her attention to Petra, unbuttoning her shirt before motorboating the foreign princess's breasts. "I see, I'm afraid none of our jobs took us overseas." He said with another shake of his head. He decided to take a few bites of food while they continued talking. Dorothea said she found the church a good source of inspiration for her music, while Edelgard seemed to keep her opinions of the church as polite as possible.

As the party came to a close, Byleth looked over the rest of his house. Sothis had had her fun with each of the girls, having spent a good part of the night boob-hatting Bernadetta before she escaped to her room (Byleth wondered if the reason she hadn't escaped earlier was due to the hidden sex genie leaning against her). He'd also learned that Petra was a fan of hunting and survival training, something he could connect with pretty well. There was also Dorotthea's interest in music that had gotten his attention, and even Linhart seemed to have a topic he was passionate about - Crests - but it seemed like he had little interest in things outside his wheelhouse. Byleth was one of the last to leave, waving goodbye to Hubert and Edelgard as he headed back to his room.

"You should definitely try Edelgard's butt sometime~" Sothis gave her own glowing review of the future empress's hindquarters. "It's strong and firm, yet with a decent amount of softness to it~" Byleth just shook his head as he climbed, deciding not to talk to her out loud in public.