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Weeks had passed and the arctic gryphon had yet to leave her room. She had done anything but leave her room. Spent time downloading her favorite dork dome sort of shows and also spent a lot of time in front of the warm glow that was her television and game set. Her computer had also been occupied quite frequently. But all good things came to an end at some point. Usually when the rations of food were low did Tahki emerge from her room to stock up once more. Either that or when some one came a knocking at her door.

No one came a knocking per say but she did hear some noises across the hall. Tahki timidly tip toed to her own door and pressed a fluffy cat like ear to see if she could get a better idea of just what the sounds were. The room across the way from hers had been unoccupied since she'd been assigned her own. The gryphon had to wonder if maybe some trouble making students were causing some trouble which made her all that more timid about leaving her room. All the worst possibly out comes of what could be happening stormed around her head. Something made her hand turn the door knob and slowly let it creek open. The gryphon stayed timidly in the shadows of her own room letting the cold air mist out like she lived in some sort of refrigerator. Which was , to be fair, kind of accurate. For what ever reason her mini pets did not mind the cold to much.

Slowly, Tahki put a foot out of her door and crept forward. Her ears laid flat on her head and her wings were very close to her back. She reached the door and slowly lifted her hand. Her eyes shut and her body moved away but her fist did a knock upon that door. The gryphon almost ran back to her own room but found her self a little to scared to move. Something kept her standing there. She froze in place. Maybe from the cold air still creeping from her own room.

Sounds could be heard from the room and for a moment Tahki debated just going back to her room and hiding in her pile of treasure for a while. But that option died out quickly when the door opened and revealed a dark eyed creature. Did he have horns? Part of Tahki wanted to reach up and touch them but she easily fought that urge. He spoke and Tahkis ears went back. She did not answer the what only looked at him with big glowing yellow yes. The gryphon tugged on her hat sub consciously. And then he apologized.

Tahki blinked.

"...."

She blinked once more. Words were not forming. To be perfectly honest the gryphon wasn't entirely sure what to say.

"You must be new..?" Her courage was slowly knitting it self. She looked around the deer like student to peer more in to his room. Curiosity killed the cat after all. Her tail twitched a little. "D-do you need any help or anything?" Tahki was so nervous she forget to introduce her self. And her offer to help was a little half hearted. To be honest the gryphon knew just about as the deer probably did about moving. She had people for that.

The gryphon had moved from gripping her hat to her headphones. Adjusting them in her own nervousness and looking very meek for such a creature as her self.

"Tahki. erm..." She paused, " T-Tahki Yukis the full name. Arctic Gryphon?" The gryphons clutch on her headphones seemed almost cemented even more as Uller went on about not breaking things if she helped. Tahki decided she better not mention she was not used to unpacking. For some reason she was feeling like she needed to help this student. After all she had offered. He didn't need to know she had almost no experience. Hopefully he would not find out by her performance.

"I won't break anything, " Tahki gave Uller a reassuring smile. At least she'd try not to break anything. She'd try her hardest and thats what mattered right?

"So .. uh.. You... gonna let me in?"

The door shut just as Tahki was instructed to do so. Her nerves might have gotten the better of her and the shut might have been that more of a slam than a gentle shut. She jumped a little at the sound but managed to keep a bit of a dignified composure. Just a bit. Lucky for her there was no EEEE sound that escaped her.

She was careful to not bump in to any of the boxes just as she was instructed. The bed was made to with out a single thing bumped in to or knocked over. Already Tahki was feeling like a pro of navigating through boxes. She was secretly proud of her self. Tahki took a seat on the bed and ruined her stream of luck by sitting directly on some of the folded clothing that had been pulled out already. The gryphon hopped up and tried her best to flatten them back to their original state. She was having no luck.

"Uh." She managed and continued to try to flatten.

It was interesting to hear he was a deer. Tahki wasn't overly surprised by this, or maybe it was more she was a bit panicked from having creased the fresh unpacked clothing.

Tahki continued to try to get the creases out of the clothing even more. She was pretty sure she did not rip anything but she nervously continued biting her lip and trying to get rid of any creases. Her tail twitched as her nerves twitched. The more Uller talked the smaller Tahki was feeling. She almost wanted to run off but she didn't want to hurt Ullers feelings.

But then the issue of her name came up. The gryphons ear twitched upward and shadows almost seemingly covered her eyes mostly from the bill of her hat. A faint glow from one yellow eye was all that could be scene and a blank expressionless mouth. Tacky? Really. The gryphon held up a finger and opened her mouth to answer.

"Tahki. Tah- KEY." Her tone was flat but her volume had improved at the very least. "Tacky is is is is is is is is is j-j-ju-just ruuuude!" In a matter of seconds the cool image Tahki had momentarily had was gone and the gryphoness was sniffling a little. How could some one be so mean. She was to busy sniffling to hear the question about her year. The gryphon turned to exit the first years room but knocked over a few boxes with out stretched wings. This made her jump back and cry out.

Tahki was on the floor trying to put things back in the boxes very quickly and awkwardly. A few sniffles could be heard.

Tahki couldn't meet his eyes as she continued to go ahead and pack things the best she was able to. The ghouls tears were starting to dry but the sniffles continued a bit. But then he apologized. Tahki froze for a moment and looked up to meet his eyes. She sniffled a few more times and lowered her head a bit.

"Thanks." Tahki wiped her yes and blew her nose in to her sleeve. It was a little messy and gross but Tahki felt really really sticky in that region. That seemed the best option to rid her self of that feeling.

He was offering her a kitten. Tahki happily accepted the kitten and hugged it to her. Her frown turned in to a small smile in no time. Maybe Uller was alright after all.

"Do you game?" Tahki set the kitten back down and reached for another object to pack.

Tahki made a very disapproving face at the mention of sports. The gryphon was not very keen on the idea of anything like that. In fact, Tahki made a point to avoid most athletic type outings most of the time. Card games on the other hand weren't so bad as long as they had something to do with fantastical sort of things. RPGs were her favorite. Battling wizards and dragons and stuff were cool.

"I mean like video games?" She smiled a little bigger and almost expected a yes. Most of the students she'd come across enjoyed video games. It was hard to imagine those that didn't enjoy games. It was like telling Tahki you didn't like music. Just not possible in her world. She leaned in a little closer expectantly.

Tahki couldn't help but smile hearing that he was a book worm. She her self also read quite a bit but her type of books were the romantic kind. Something she was not fond of openly admitting. Then he mentioned discs and music. Tahki couldn't help but chuckle at that.

"Oh?" She mused trying not to sound condescending. She let him go on about it and said nothing. Only smiled while she happily started to unpack more of his clothing. Her folding was something terrible. Tahki almost crumbled the clothing in to a ball with how she folded. It was awful. But the gryphon happily continued her awful folding. A reapers snake familiar had taught her how to do laundry only a short while ago. Because the reapers familiar had no hands the two had never gone over the proper way to fold things. So Tahki thought how she folded was the correct way.

"I read too," The gryphon continued her 'folding'. "And I think what your talking about is called a CD player. I had one of those at one point."