So, she’d been sorted into the soft house. ‘Loyal’ meant to have people who made you weak, ‘hardworking’ meant you weren’t smart enough to achieve results, ‘dedicated’ indicated someone who needed to feel validated because of their failure, and ‘honest’ was something that Xiomara Winters was just nor prepared to be. Xiomara pursed her lips. It was fucking humiliating- not just being sent to this awful, dirty school as a sloppy seconds for her magical education; but now, to be sorted into a house of children with whom she had very little in common. She stared at the fireplace, tuning out Willa almost entirely. Don’t you fucking dare cry.
Then Willa was talking about quidditch again and normally, Xi would have been right into it, babbling away about her favourite teams, scandals involving seekers and rumours about player trade-offs but Xiomara was just so… Exhausted. “Je vais au lit.” Xiomara announced that she was going to bed rather abruptly, unfolding herself from her position and brushing herself off. Because she would have to fucking live with Willa, she supposed, Xi eyed the girl on the couch and gave a sigh, “Merci pour l'explication. Je suis désolé, ça a été une très … longue journée.”
Willa sat up straighter and fussed with her hair as her new friend stood and made her way towards the dorm. She said something wrong. No, no-don’t think so negatively, Xiomara was new it was probably just a lot to take in. “Bien sûr, il est tard. Si vous voulez rencontrer de nouvelles personnes, vous pouvez nous rencontrer demain. Dors bien chérie.” She collected her stuff and glanced back towards the dorms one last time to see if Xiomara was okay and then went off to find her friends.