It was an uncanny feeling that loomed over Abigail as she clicked her heels throughout the halls of the academy. Sure, there had been a few students walking about, but nothing was out of the ordinary. In a place where being ordinary isn’t the norm and chaos typically spreads like wildfire, shouldn’t it be a bit frightening that the entire place had completely changed almost overnight? Of course, Abigail’s exaggerated thoughts often did get past her, but that didn’t help clear the point of how quiet it was.

As she walked through the halls, she couldn’t help but wonder what the special had been today. Then it hit her. ‘Perhaps the food court is jam-packed with students!’ It just had to be, given that the last time she had visited were a few times just after the event with the sacred dessert. She still couldn’t get over that almost the entire cafeteria fought violently for a cube of chocolate. ‘Hah, such savages.’ She smirked benevolently to the thought.

Upon entering, yet again had the presence of quietness overwhelmed Abigail. Perhaps it would’ve been best to simply grab a plate of food and enjoy it while the tranquility lasted. However, the sight of a still student had proved to be peculiar in Abigail’s eyes. She turned, moving towards his direction before noticing an upside-down plate of food spilled onto the ground, along with the ketchup smear. It was quite unsightly to look at, but even more painful to watch the child just standing there.

Her heels clicked as she walked just beside him, removing a cloth from her small satchel and having it hover over to the spilled food. Soon the plate had reassembled itself, lifting itself from the floor and back onto the plate just as the cloth had been doing its work to get the ketchup smear off the ground. Her forehead symbol had flickered a light blue hue just before.

“You know, I’ve always heard that folks would cry over spilled milk, but I never would’ve thought it would be the case with ketchup.” She then allowed the plate and now ketchup-soaked cloth float in the air and to the nearby trash can as she attempted to give the child a sympathetic smile. “Do not fret, I’m sure there are plenty of consumables left for us. Would you like to go grab a bite?”

She felt a bit guilty of having to throw away perfectly good food, but for what it's worth, it’s better that the spilled food had gone to the trash. Who knows, someone could’ve gotten infected from eating it!

Jack Mason

“Come now, eating with someone makes eating alone seem trivial. Are you telling me you wish to be trivial too?” She smirked in a playful manner, leading her own way into the cafeteria. Should he wish to follow, she slowed her pace for him to keep a comfortable one.

She then removed yet another cloth, it had been relatively soft and folded as she removed it, handing it over to the boy. “Here, I’m sure those pesky water mages are at it again. Keep things dry and they’ll leave you alone.” She then gave him a thumbs up, setting her gaze forward and wondering what she wished to get from the cafeteria.

Maybe a small bottle of tea would do. It wasn’t as strong here as it was back at her home, however, it had to do. Her eyes glanced over to Jack, checking up on him from time to time before strumming up conversation. “Ah, Jack. It was quite rude of me not to exchange my name. I’m Abigail, it’s a pleasure. And custodian? Aren’t you quite young to take up such a demanding role?” She set her fingers to curl just under her chin as she was seemingly intrigued by his mention of being apart of staff faculty. Of course, he could’ve been lying, but she let him have his moment if it were the case.

Running a finger just through the strands of her vibrant white locks, Abigail emitted a light exhale before pausing and blinking, her thoughts ran wild. Regardless of how long she spent wandering within her mind, her face jolted back to existence when remembering where she was. “Speaking of faculty, what are you able to do? What’s your specialty? I’d like to be enlightened on the world of Jack the custodian. How’s about it?”

She had expressed herself to be quite interested in the boy, throwing several questions at once as to get his mind off of whatever it had been that was troubling him. It would eventually come into play n the near future, but perhaps she could pull it out from him with a little bit of work.