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Weslyn blushed embarrassedly when Tzuki said she didn’t have to make anything for her in particular. She had a first year worried about her! What a considerate person, to be thinking of her being behind on projects even though they just met! ”O-oh, okay!” she started, but nodded. ”I was making scarves so Roland, our Quidditch captain, might have some incentives to encourage people to try out for the team.”

She smiled as Tzuki took in all the scents around and looked around for tacos and pasta and ”Dumplings?” she asked, looking around. ”Oh, Pot pies?”

Weslyn tapped Astra next to her to pass tortillas down then glanced back to hear Tzuki asking to help figure out what was around.”Of course! I’d love to help. So we have lamb and fried chicken, spaghetti--no meatballs, this is probably a vegetarian dish-- and then there’s a bunch of sides: mac and cheese, corn, carrots and onions, lettuc--a bunch of salad ingredients, and this is... potatoes...garlic and buttered. There’s curry, and something that looks like spicy tofu soup? I haven’t seen any pies yet, but there is some kind of stew next to the fish?” she said with a little satisfied sigh. She’d never tried listing everything at the Sorting Feast!

”And here are tortillas for tacos. Don’t forget to save room for dessert!” Astra piped.

”Yes! So uhm...where would you like to start?"

Between the two of them, Weslyn and Astra made quick work of piling everything Tzuki had listed onto her plate. Once she had gotten her own food, Weslyn chewed thoughtfully on a potato as she tried to remember their earlier conversation.

”Ah, you were asking what Quidditch was,” she recalled. Well calling it a ‘scary game played high in the air with four balls, half of which were trying to send you to an early grave’ certainly didn’t sound like the best first impression of magic and school. Maybe she didn’t need to give details though ”Uhm, it’s a game played on flying broomsticks! Each house has one, but...well, there’s supposed to be seven people per team, but sometimes there’s not always enough people at the beginning of the year.” Was that bad to admit? Did it even matter to Tzuki? Wren said Slytherin's team was "small but select" -- so maybe Slytherin kept their team small on purpose? Was it just Hufflepuff that was short?

Kenny had opted out of Flying, much less played Quidditch, but he did come to cheer Yukon on, and he said he enjoyed the color blurs. So maybe Tzuki could enjoy listening to the games. ”Oh but it’s a really big thing on game days! The whole school--”-- Wes shuddered even saying the words--”The whole school gets dressed up in the house colors and goes out to watch! And we have some students that announce the whole game and comment on it so even though I don’t know what’s going on half the time, it’s still exciting.”

Oh, she was doing a terrible job at this! "I'm sorry, that probably wasn't very helpful! I mostly just read about it and and get towels and water for everyone.” She stopped talking to taste the tofu-looking thing and found it was cheese! Cheese and spices. What an interesting dish! ”Do you like sports, Tzuki? Or um, what do you like to do?”