At a table near the windows, a group of first-years from House Ascendant were having the kind of conversation that happened when the competitive week's tension had finally fully released and what was left was just people being people.
Robert was telling a story about something that had happened at the coordination venue that involved him, a Greystone student, and a misunderstanding about which team had rights to a warm-up area.
"—and she's fully convinced I'm trying to steal their lane, which I'm not, I'm just standing there because I can't find our assigned space, and she's doing this whole— " Robert made a gesture that conveyed official displeasure, "—and then it turns out we're both in the wrong area entirely and our actual spaces are next to each other and we ended up warming up at the same time anyway and it was fine."
"Did you get her name," Lily asked.
"What? No."
"You spent twenty minutes arguing with someone and then training beside them and you didn't get their name."
