A plate warming frost-stiff fingers, Phila scopes out the dining hall for a seat. Unfortunately, this is a task easier said than done. Though a relatively new arrival, she has quickly realised that the hall is always swarming with activity; intermingling students, staff, and knights with the clink of knives and forks on plates and the occasional shattering plate.
It's definitely a test of her reflexes if anything. Ducking under various food-laden arms and bodies, she manages to fight her way to a relatively undisturbed clearing. Seats blink into emptiness like stars on a dark night, but are seized upon within seconds, extinguished. Naga above, this was going to be a challenge.
Suddenly, in the swarm, an empty seat. Moving with a speed she would've been embarrassed by if her stomach wasn't so insistently vocal, she approaches her perch. Her eyes flash like the steel of a lance, jabbing away any encroaching students hoping to snatch her spot from her. With her ownership established, she turns to the adjacent student.
In the flurry of seat-hunting, she hadn't noticed that the student in question donned vibrant yellow fox ears. They drew the eye in the dingy glow of the dining hall, obtrusive like a brand in the night, wresting her mind to a meeting in the castle, and a woman accusing her Exalt of a violence that was all too human. Taguel...?
Nothing beat food from home and Kinu had finally convinced the kitchen staff to make her some Hoshidan dishes, provided that she brought the ingredients! Her tail was twitching with excitement at the thought of tasting it. It was about then that her attention was drawn away by the sound of footsteps hurrying over to the table and her ears immediately tracked onto that sound. Then came the question.
Looking up, Kinu grinned when she saw the woman with pale blue hair. She looked a bit like her classmate, Marianne. Though she smelled like pegasi. She didn't seem to be wearing the student uniform either... so.... new professor? Or maybe a knight?
"Hiya!" she chirped in greeting. "That seat is free, why don't you sit down? My name's Kinu! What's yours?"
Her tail started wagging a bit with excitement. Kinu loved meeting new people! Which meant she started speaking quickly too. Oops.