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Yuki's voice startled her enough to stare, and she tried to process the question while simultaneously pushing her heart back down into her chest. Was she going to eat? This might be their only chance for the day, and yet she found herself completely lacking an appetite, as if her body was used to long stretches of fasting. She reached out, considering, and then brought her hand back to her lap empty. "I suppose not." She murmured. "I'm sorry. Does my presence disturb you if I am not eating? I can move."

Sammy took the lead as she had hoped she would, and a meek nod of her head followed the sound of her own name coming from Sammy's lips. But when the woman called them both out for being nervous, she only managed to make Riley flush even darker with embarrassment. She cringed when the wine was held towards her, finding the smell of alcohol stomach churning.

"I don't think I did. If they had water, I would drink it." But this, she couldn't stand the sight of.

Sammy claimed that her job was going to be at the head of the fight. Riley felt a sudden guilt at saying no to her offer, and belatedly reached out for the cup, as if to try and push past whatever was stopping her from drinking it. Her hand curled in fright when one of the great knights finally spoke, and her eyes met first Sammy, then Yuki in confusion and just a touch of fear.

At the first sign of resistance, Chel immediately tugged the plate back. It didn't give of course, and this left Chel looking rather idiotic as the blonde one tugged, the brunette stole and the redhead watched.

Chel made a grand motion of rolling her eyes and immediately let go of the plate, even slapping one end of it. This caused her half to give and it sent a few (but not all) of the rolls sliding off the tray, knocked upwards. She snatched them from the air and also shoved them in her pockets, rather sure that no one would reach in to get them.

Not that she would mind.

"Gotta think a little quicker than that, boys."

"And if they won't train you someone else surely will." Lord knows they had plenty of knights around to deal with the ones who lacked experience. She handled her own wine again still wiggling the one offered to Riley. "A pleasure JAson. And why not drink? We just became knighted. And we don't have orders yet. Eat. Drink. Then fight. seems to be a good order because then you can eat and drink again after fighting."

The flush on Riley's cheeks was not missed and Sammy only grinned more, "C'mon it's not that bad. It's a good wine. It's the wine a king would serve his knights. You can't even remember the taste so why not try?" Suddenly the cup was taken and Sammy only grinned even more. "Much better!" However two more knights seemed to cause a disturbance at another table.

Sammy stood up glancing at Morgan, "Oh shut the ******** up." Her attitude quickly turned south as his speech, "He can't be everywhere at once the place is crawling with new knights and we can't even remember what good food -WAS-. Stop scaring those who came here and being all.... dickish." she declared. She turned back to Riley leaning in to whisper, "If you want to learn to fight. Find me in an hours time or so. Courtyards." With that she placed her sword on her hip and went to explore the rest of the castle.

Either Thackery was doing a superb job of being stealthy, or he was of such negligible importance that he could quite easily go unnoticed, or he had the ability to somehow teleport himself. Whatever the case, he had managed to migrate to the closest available seat near Mordred, where he continued to stare at him in the exact same manner as he'd always been (for the past few minutes). The only thing that changed at all was the gradual increase of his utterly lovestruck expression, which was now accompanied by a long, contented sigh.

The wonders of proximity. Oh, he could almost feel him. It was as if their souls were touching.

A drink magically appeared in front of her.

She had to assume this was some kind of divine answer to her question - and that the answerer, in their Infinite Wisdom, had sought to teach her that perhaps even the lesser usages of potatoes were meant to be appreciated.

Like moonshine.

Cady grabbed the tankard and drank greedily. It was gross, but then, she knew on the inside it was potatoes, and she should therefore remain respectful.

To the question asked on high, she replied, "I really like 'taters, mister or miss or I don't know your name, but thank you for the drink, it is very strong and I think I probably should not have had all of it but it seems that that has, ah ha, Come and Goned as they say and so now I will Reel with the Consequentials."

Xanther looked around, hoping there would be something interesting here. There wasn't much to do but drink and snatch food from each other. The red eyed took another drink and set it on the table. He noticed Sir Morgan, who seem... half asleep? Well knights are human beings. Xanther took another cup and approached the knight. "Hey." He said with a smile. "This should help. " He whispered and offered the drink to the knight.

Chris bared his teeth in a less-than-friendly smile at the brunette. Why did everyone have to go after the rolls? We couldn't he just steal one simple plate and be on his way.

While his attention was diverted he missed the girl letting go of the tray and nearly smacked himself as the resistance disappeared. Luckily he saved a number of the rolls, but the others were lost to her pockets before he could protest. It sucked to admit, but he was slightly impressed. He quickly slid the remaining ones into his own pockets, hidden withing the excess fabric woven into his armor.

"Sucks for you, punk," he told the brunette. "But unless you wanna wrestle both of us for some bread, you've used up all your luck. And I'm pretty sure blondie could kick your a**."

Poke admires your spirit Cady-sama. She will forever consider you her sempai in eating, totes

But for now she had two people arguing over if she should believe one or not and if she had the brains to know which spoke the truth. The honest answer was maybe. With a shrug Poke just poured herself a glass of whatever it was they were drinking and chugged it. Perhaps this would be proof enough for Riyo that she may have been lacking in the brain compartment as she hadn't realize what she was drinking was ale.

"I'm Pokerus, and it's nice to meet you both." She responded with her own name, watching as the knights began to leave. All except two of them. As soon as Morgan began to speak she frowned. Guy was sounding like a royal stuck up p***k, and she was quite glad she had sworn allegiance to Lancelot. He was totes better

"I actually do consider it a honor to be sworn into severance for the king." She replied, taking another sip. "To be able to fight and protect everyone is a lot better then getting my a** kicked. Besides, the food is really good too. Don't dis the food."