Teddy Riley (deaftone) wrote in st_margarets, @ 2013-10-27 21:45:00 |
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Entry tags: | character: darius prose, character: felix de luca, character: teddy riley, character: valentin graff, location: the caves |
Log/Thread: Initiation
WHO: Teddy Riley, Darius Prose, Valentin Graff and Felix De Luca
WHEN: 26 October, very early morning {Backdated}
WHERE: Top secret House Pegasus hangout
NPCs: Other Pegasus kids
Having already been told by Darius that he needed to know where his coat and shoes were, it surprised Teddy that people had kept asking him. They really seemed to tell him about the fire drills, one of the house mentors making it a point to tell him that sometimes the fire alarm went off at night and he needed to dress up warm incase they were outside for a while. He’d been told that sometimes people set them off on purpose - or by accident - and Teddy took it all at face value, not really thinking too much about it.
Not too long after 1am, the fire alarm went off and Teddy’s bed started to vibrate. He didn’t want to sleep with his hearing aids in, and managed to jam one of them into his ear as he stumbled out of bed, slipping his feet into his shoes and coat - that someone had put on the back of the door for him like they were expecting him to need it. That was a surprise, but not an unwelcome one. He slipped into it and stumbled outside, rubbing at his eyes and trying to wake himself up without getting too awake because getting to sleep this whole week had been really tough for him because he was really missing being at home. He missed his mom and dad and his bed and this place was weird.
When the all clear was given, he plodded up the stairs only to find one of the mentors waiting there with a small smile on her face as she pointed at the map stuck to his door. Confused, he tried to open it but was unable, so picked up the map and looked at it. The mentor didn’t say anything, just lifted a shoulder and turned to start walking away and Teddy, well, he just followed her.
She walked in front of him almost like a ghost, disappearing every now and then but reappearing further down the line like she was guiding him somewhere past tokens that he collected and held in his arms, each one seeming to have some kind of use. Overhead, flying close to him and looping around so he could see it was an owl. He was confused but also excited, he didn’t know what was happening, but there were people every now and then, and the house mentor up ahead reassuring him that he wasn’t being taken out to be killed or fed to something (he’d heard that happened to some students).
Finally he was told to follow the last bit of the map where he had to crawl through a tunnel to a huge open caven that lit up as soon as he got to his feet. He was surprised and the cheering was so sudden and loud that he fumbled to cover the ear which had the aid attached just to give himself a chance to get past the overwhelming noise. Teddy liked the silence most of the time.
He was jostled and greeted as people flooded around him, the whole house seemed to be there and he was introduced to the house in a brief ritual that confirmed him as a Pegasus for life.
Teddy was super glad that no one had classes in the morning and he looked around the food and the comfortable settings, taking it all in and feeling touched and included on his own merits for one of the first times in his life. He tugged his coat around himself and as the attention faded from him and people went about their own business, Teddy moved to the table, picking up a bunch of grapes and then turning to watch the people as they moved around each other, talking and chatting but waving whenever they spotted him looking. He lifted his hand to wave back.
Okay, so this was cool. He just needed to be brave and talk to someone. He wished he’d picked up his second hearing aid. He’d just have to be careful.