Adjusting to Dorm Life

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It had all been rather sudden. One day she was waking up in her own bedroom surrounded by her own things. A week later, she was in the school dorms, all her possessions in boxes, some in storage, others waiting to be unpacked in her new room in the school dorms.

Liliana still could not quite believe that she was alone, all alone. Her parents had always been a constant in her life, and now, they were not. They had had to rush back to England to look after her grandparents who had been in a horrible train crash and had almost been killed. They had decided that the best thing for Liliana was to stay behind, finish school and live among those who truly understand and appreciated their daughter and her gifts.

The problem with her parents' ideas was that Liliana felt all alone now, abandoned and basically forgotten. What was worse - she had not even received any word, letter, phone call or email since they had left. All of which made her feel somewhat unloved and unwanted.

Glancing at the clock on her bedside table, Liliana got up and made her way down to the dorm lounge where she had an interview, meet and greet, with the person who would be her dorm parent.

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Finch had made some improvements to the lounge, although not many people would necessarily agree they were improvements at all. The window was thrown wide open, and what looked like a large branch with the bark picked up had been set up near the window. There were no less than six birds perched on it of varying types, and to the surprise of everyone who saw it... there wasn't any bird shit on the ground.

No, every single bird was being perfectly well behaved and going to the bathroom outside.

Finch was there, still wearing his mask and robes, and he was in the process of setting up a second branch when Liliana came in. He didn't seem to notice her immediately, and it was only when one of the birds cawed that Finch's head snapped up, his head tilting to the side as he looked up at Liliana from where he sat on the floor, picking at bark.

"Hmmmm... Oh! Yes yes, the new girl. The one I haven't met yes. Yes. That's you?"
 
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"What the...?" Liliana marvelled as she looked around the room and first noticed all the birds, sitting on a tree limb, set up near an open window. It was a very odd thing to behold. Not the oddest thing Liliana had ever seen or encountered, but certainly among the top twenty things, if not the top ten if you only included the academy and not the rest of the island.

Hearing somebody address her, Liliana turned around to look at the person who was addressing her. Noticing he wore a mask, a bird-like mask, caused Liliana to stop briefly and stare, totally not expecting this person to be her dorm parent.

"Uh, yes, I am Liliana," she said hiding her surprise, remembering, for some reason, what Jude had sort of shown, taught her, and held her hand out to him in greeting, feeling that it was perhaps the right thing to do. "Nice to meet you," she added.
 
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If Liliana was paying attention, she might have noted that Finch only seemed to be using his left hand, and it was his left hand he used when he jumped to his feet, taking her hand in his own and vigorously shaking it. It was an awkward, kind of sideways handshake (Since most shook with their right hands and Finch definitely did not), but at the very least his hand was totally human.

"Yes, yes. Liliana. One of my students. Pupils? One of the children in my care."

Finch pulled away, scooting over to the branch and tilting his mask up towards the birds for a moment before glancing back to her.

"Yes, yes. Introductions. My name is Finch. I come from Halcyon city, with the other evacuees. The school has allowed me to teach here, and has allowed me to stay here to watch children. A dorm parent, yes."

His voice was exceptionally screechy when he spoke, and for most people would definitely bring to mind a bird trying to talk for the first time and doing it particularly badly.
 
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