So he didn't walk around the place with a perpetual look of dread anymore, and he wasn't regarding his fellow students with weary caution. He seemed just a little bit more at home in his own skin. Still awkward. Still easily flustered and far from eloquent, but better. Calmer.
He was actually exploring today. Something he'd never really expected to be doing. He'd started with the other dorms, just the outsides, and had made his way around the lake(though that was very familiar to him), and was currently meandering around the edge of the forst with his hands crammed into his pockets, and his shoulders only slightly hunched up.
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