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Nobara's eyes widened a bit.. the 'mommy' of Ayame was as old as her... how crazy. Nobara shivered slightly, and then gripped her fists tightly, grinning. "Okay! My name is Nobara, it's a pleasure, Ayame!" She nodded happily, curls bouncing, and then spun her fork in between her fingers, yawning a bit. "Man, I'm tired..."

For the moment being, she decided to ignore Alexi; he would just get in the way anyway. "After... we eat, we'll find your mother... I wonder where she could be..."

Rake sat down across from her, with a cold sandwitch, and oddly enough a tea bag and some hot water. He had gotten use to drinking hot tea because his sister had always fixed it for him, and he developed a taste for it.

He sat there, elbows on the table, looking at Courtney curiously. Her eyes really did remind him of his right eye. But He still woudln't show her. It wasn't something he showed casually.

"Take your time, I think we have plenty." He stirred the cup, tossing in a few pieces of sugar, and then just a bit of milk. The milk takes the bitterness off... He was sure anyone seeing him drinking tea like this would have one heck of a mixed impression of him.

Courtney's hair fell back over her eyes as she continued to eat, "Its quite strange, I usually don't talk to people like that. I at least try to let them have their privacy. I guess I need more practice." She finised her rice balls and turned to Rake, "Okay, I have it." She said looking serious.

"I-don't know!" Her expression was one of amusement, "I'm being kept out, though I can tell you where they are." She'd suddenly started laughing, "Wow, I never thought I'd fail at reading minds, I mean thoughts just usually come in of their own accord."

"This is not at all like fortune-telling." She looked offended but in an amused way, "This is real, you can find them if you go to the playground."

"Eh? Well, there seem to be lots of kinds of people here old and young; I'm kind of new."

Ayise had oce said that Courtney's aura readings were like internet dating; maybe she was right, I mean what would he do, just go out and meet whoever it was? Maybe they were old friends or something or maybe she'd screwed up again and gotten her signals crossed.

She looked at her watch, she needed to do her English assignment.
Courtney sighed, and things were just getting fun too.

She stood up, "It was nice meeting you Rake, good luck with your mystery girl." She said turning to leave; "Oh and thank you for the snack!" she bowed and hurried away.

Rachel's breath caught in the back of her throat as she saw Courtney get up and walk out of the dining hall with her friend. She let out a small sigh as she watched her leave, grateful that she hadn't noticed her sitting there with Nobara.

Maybe I'm worrying too much... she thought to herself. She didn't seem nearly as bad as her cousin or whatever, after all.

She took another bite of her salad, turning back to Nobara and deciding to try not to be quite so concerned about what everyone else around her was doing.

As she finished her food, Rachel lifted a napkin to her mouth to wipe it off. Smiling at Nobara, she picked up her tray and began to move toward the trash area, yawning a little as she went.

"Well, I should probably get going," she said. "I've got a lot of things I need to do tomorrow, and a cat to locate..." This last part she said slightly under her breath - she wondered where that cat from the other day had gotten itself off to.

"Anyway, though, I'll see you around campus sometime," she said, smiling. "I just have one more thing to take care of here first." With that, she made her way back into the kitchen, throwing open the doors.

No one was there except for the evening kitchen staff, of course. It would seem that if she wanted a job washing dishes, she needed to go ahead and march right in there and take it for herself. Spying a huge pile of dishes from the most recent student dinners and two poor part-timers slaving over it, she walked over to the two of them, clapping them on the shoulders.

"Break time, you guys," she said, smiling inscrutably. They looked back in confusion, never having seen her before in their life. "Don't worry," she reassured them, waving a hand. "I'm the new help. I'll take over from here." The two dishwashers looked at each other, shrugging just slightly before leaving - clearly, they weren't going to pass up an opportunity like this to get out of work early.

As they left, Rachel craned her neck around to see if they were really gone. Waiting a few seconds just to be sure, she rolled up the sleeves of her shirt and rubbed her hands together. "There, this'll be easy as pie," she snickered to herself, grinning a little. She stepped back a few steps, crossing her arms in front of her as she did before during the fight with Seiya. Immediately, about six pairs of arms sprouted up from the kitchen counter and began sending dishes to the sink and out the other side like an assembly line - the hands would grab them, hand them off, rinse them in the sink, scrub them clean, rinse again, dry with a towel, and finally stack them up in neat piles next to the sink.

"Well... time to get some reading in, then," Rachel said to herself as her powers practically did the work for her. Smiling, she found a chair in the corner of the kitchen to sit in and began reading her book again. With all of the hands working together and efficiently, the entire job was done in about half an hour, signaled by the hands clapping when they were finished.

"That didn't take long at all!" Rachel said, grinning to herself. "And now, time to get going..." And so, she headed back to her dorm for the night, satisfied with the events of the day.