Life is a party and I’m the piñata.
"Do you need a hug too, Mister Erudition?" Effy asked innocently, after overhearing the mutterings of another new arrival at Strixhaven. She knew him by name and face only, although she had heard rumours from others about how... mean he could be. They used different words, of course, but Effy didn't want to assume anything about a person until she met them herselfs.
Even if they made some of her neighbours in the dorms cry.
Without waiting, Effy took a step forward and wrapped her arms around the tiefling's shoulders as he sat at the Bow's End Tavern bar. It wasn't a long hug by any means, as she felt him stiffen the second she embraced him. Effy backed away quickly after, drawing her arms to her sides again, though her glowing white eyes remained focused on Erudition.
"I'm a good listener, I think. If you want to... vent." She said carefully, tiptoring around her word choice. She got the sense that he could be a very dangerous person when he wanted to be. "And... I think I understand, at least a little, about how you feel..."
