Just chill

You didn’t see anyone older than Alister when he walked you all in so they might be in class, you could ask him but he seemed to hurry off so he is probably busy. You drop your bags on one of the beds and get to unpacking.

You grab clothes and open the cupboard by your door. Before you start hanging them up your stopped by the sight in front of you. The open cupboard is bigger on the inside. Not massively but noticeably, you can stick your head in there and look left and right seeing the wall a good metre deeper on each side than they are on the outside.

“Well, that’s kinda awesome.” You say hanging up your clothes. You open a draw and put away other clothes, much like the walls they are deeper than they should be. You pack everything away with a lot of time to spare. You close your wardrobe and can’t resist running your hands along the sides and back just to prove that it is in fact bigger on the inside.

All packed away you get a look around your room. It’s not huge, more than big enough for two people, hell you could fit another bed in here without losing much space. It was square with smooth stone wall, you gave up looking for seams in the stone on the walk to the dorm room.

There was a carpet in the middle that just touched the outer feet of the beds. You reached down and ran your hand thought it. As expected it was luxuriously soft, you got for a comparison and pat the bed, some how the bed was softer. You weren’t sure if you could sleep on something that soft, surely you’d slide right off if you move even slight.

You felt the bed’s material get rougher, not unpleasantly but less slide off as you tired to get on soft. “Cool.” You lay on the bed resting your head on the pillow. Yeah this will work just fine. You don’t really want to spend half an hour looking around an empty room however so you get up. Well might as well check out the common room.

Most of the door the second years were assigned to were closed. Even amber eyes. Some were open and had the two people chatting amicably together. A few seemed to be getting along very well but you didn’t stare feeling a like that would be a bad first impression.

You step out of the hallway and into the common room. It is a nice change, the place is huge, with lounges, tables, single chairs, couple chairs, bookcases lining the wall, almost all of which seemed to be filled not with books but with various paraphernalia. Kinda disturbingly there are few oddly shaped skulls and other bones among them.

You look away from them and move to couch. The place is empty, reinforcing the idea that only second years are free right now. The couch is soft but hard enough that you wouldn’t fall asleep super easily.

Looking at the colour scheme you are unsurprised to see a lot of red’s and black’s, it’s nice but feels a little too, lairy for you really enjoy.

Spreading out on the couch your eyes fall to a carving of a full Cerberus. Body, three head and all. You get up and grin unable to resist a childish impulse. Reach up you scratch it behind the right head’s outer ear.

The stone statue starts panting. Not visibly but aurally. It is way too weird and you pull your hand. There is laughter from the side and you look over to see Alister grinning. “Pooch doesn’t usually like new people scratching his ears, guess you belong here after all.” He jumps into the air and land on the couch you had been sitting on.

The pose he made when he did reminded you of Jeff Goldblum in Jurassic Park. The fact he was posing like that in mid-air before he landed and once he did there was no change in the pose made you realise that magic is apparently not something people use super seriously, or entirely responsibly.

He stretches and stands up. “By the way, amber eyes back there, ah never mind you need to learn something on your own.” You get the feeling he’s messing with you. He leans back and looks at the wall. “Oh shit time.” He jumps up. “Wait here, I’ll lose head boy if late to another ceremony. Don’t look at me like that, you have no idea how many ceremonies this place has.” With that he dashed down the hallway shouting as he does. You’re left waiting as people slowly gather in the common room. You notice that a few of the couples are slightly redder than they were when they got assigned a room.

“Ok pups follow me.” Alister appeared at the back of the room and ducked around everyone. He left the common room at a slight jog and after a moments pause the student joined in. This time you were leading the pack.