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Kiasora Cantore

Unafraid- Small Child- Lonely- Amoral- Italian
 
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OOC First Name
Jess S
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Pure Blood
Relationship Status
Seeing Somebody
Wand
Straight 9 Inch Whippy Elm Wand with Meteorite Dust Core
Age
4/24/2038 (22)
Kia had moved up to the student lounge, wanting a change of scenery for a bit to maybe help clear her head. She needed to do better this year. She had let herself be distracted before, let herself get caught up learning to speak Italian and try to find herself. But she had come to the harsh realization that none of that mattered- her past, her lost family, it was nothing. She needed to survive. And if she didn't pull it together, she wouldn't be able to survive on her own. She wasn't going to rely on anyone, she knew better. She had no one, and she wasn't looking for anyone. She settled at a table in the corner of the room and set to work, reading through her transfiguration textbook.
 
Leia wanted to get started on her work for the different classes she had, she didn’t have to, and she didn’t want to be too visible on it, but classes had started and she could at least just say that she really wanted to work on her homework if anyone asked. She was still determined to hide how much she was working in the hopes that still she could pretend like it was effortless to her, but that was still rather easier said than done. She’d come to the student lounge where there was the chance to work a little in plain site and not make it too obvious what was being worked on. As she went in she noticed her roommate Kia. She wondered if now was a good time to maybe get to know the girl. So she walked over, ”Hey Kia, do you mind?” she kind of expected to get rejected but it never hurt to try...or maybe it would. Leia hoped it wouldn’t.
 
Kia looked up as someone approached. Oh, it was one of her roommates. Leia? "Hello," She greeted cooly, her quill stilling a moment. "Go ahead," she murmured quietly, turning back to her books and her notes. She and Leia had been dormmates for three years, and the other girl had yet to speak to her for more than a few moments in passing. She doubted now would be any different; Kia was most likely just in the other girls seat.
 
Leia looked at Kia, she wasn’t sure on what sort of reception she get, but it was perhaps a little warmer than she had expected though still rather cool. She had known this girl for nearly three years and she had never had much of a conversation with her. Maybe it wouldn’t have to be. Leia took a seat and looked towards her for a moment. She out her notes and books and placed them down in front of her. She began working on the homework she had brought with her to do before glancing at the girl, ”What are you working on?” at the very least this question could be hidden by the fact she was double checking she didn’t have work to do, other work to do.
 
Kia glanced up as Leia asked about her work. What was it with people interrupting her studying anymore? "I'm reading my transfiguration textbook. It's a complex subject and I want to understand it better," She answered simply. She almost smiled a bit at Leia. "It's actually kinda relieving to see you with your school books. I thought you didn't give a damn about your schooling," She offered up with a small smile.
 
Leia looked at the textbook and nodded lightly, not homework but the girl was clearly revising. Leia had to smile a little at the words. Her whole thing was working, people weren’t noticing it. ”I don’t usually, like I do well enough without having to do too much work, but I just wanted to get the homework done, you know?” she lied, with a little eager expression, but schooled it to be better, ”Do you take your schooling seriously?”
 
Kia shrugged at the other girls words. "That's fair," She murmured, half to herself. She glanced back up at Leia and shrugged at the question. "I try to, at least," She offered, "I just struggle with deciding what schoolwork matters and what school work doesn't," She tucked her hair behind her ear. What really mattered to Kia was being able to survive, and there were some things- like astronomy- that she didn't think would serve any purpose in helping her with that.
 
Leia couldn’t help but be rather pleased with herself. She had never gotten much confirmation about if what she was doing was working, at least outwith the O’s she got in her exams. ”Well, doesn’t it depend on what you want to do, what the goal is,” she said, thinking mostly out loud, she wondered if Kia knew what she wanted to do or if she just didn’t have much of a plan other than what she needed to decide what mattered. She wouldn’t say it was because of what mattered to her as an individual that would be silly.
 
Kia shrugged. "That's easy for you to say. I don't know what I want to do yet," She spoke simply. "I don't really know what there is you can do as an adult, but I need to be prepared for anything," she shrugged. There were a lot of things she could do, most likely, but she needed to decide what to do soon. She couldn't prepare for a future she wasn't sure of, that much was certain.
 
Leia gave a little shrug, she didn’t really know if it was easy for her to say, she didn’t really know what she wanted to do, but she had to at least pretend that she wasn’t too bothered by it. She didn’t think she could be of much more help, Leia was sure she knew about as much as kia did about the magical world. If not less. She didn’t know Kia’s home situation or blood status. ”Well, that means core classes right? At least transfiguration, charms, potions, herbology, for sure, optionally history and astronomy. Then of the electives, isn’t Divination the broadest, and covers a lot of the same future telling that the other two do. Muggle studies is just muggles, which in the magical world you don’t need to know and care of magical creature for if you think caring for animals is something you need to be prepared for,” Leia reasoned.
 
Kia thought about it, tapping her fingers on the desk as she thought. "Okay, that makes sense I suppose," she mused, before looking over to Leia. "You know I think this is the most we've talked since we started school," she smiled a little at the other girl.
 

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