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Mathias really didn't know anything when it came to "dating". There was only two things he had been thinking about when he had signed his name up for this, and that was as follows.

1) He'd been spending way too much time at the gym trying to find other students, or even horsemen if he should happen to chance upon one, to spar with, and decided he needed to perhaps expand on his Amityville experience.

2) Maybe whoever he met would spar with him afterwards.

It was sound reasoning, and so the little wolpertinger found himself receiving instructions to meet his "date" at a cafe near the school, which he was fairly certain he could find on his own.

Okay so he got a little lost and showed up late, but when he got there he stood in the doorway and looked around, ears twitching, and wearing his usual style but with his best jacket and nothing but the finest boots that added 3 inches to his vertically challenged height.

He had even taken extra care to polish his antlers...however small they were....that morning.

Approaching the table of a boil who matched the description of the one he was meant to meet, Mathias coughed lightly into his hand to grab his attention. "Frost in the Storm?" He asked, and awaited confirmation.

Mathias nodded in response, offering the boil a polite smile that only showed the barest hint of his fangs, which were still small and underdeveloped, much like most visible aspects of his physique. "I am." He confirmed along with the nod, before sliding into the seat that was so generously pulled out for him, his wings folding in neatly behind him as he sat. Is this what happened on dates then? A lot of pleasantries and over polite behaviour? He half wondered if there was any more to it than just that.

Tapping a long fingernail on the tabletop, he waited until Frost was seated, assessing him curiously. He almost seemed...nervous? Though at what the wolpertinger had no idea. "Ah, yes, gut. I am most happy to have found the right student." He nodded again, before continuing on.

"Social...pererogatives?" He frowned, puzzled as he tried to keep up with Frost's speech. "Is this mean like to uhhhh..." He lifted a hand off of the table and made vague hand waving gesture. "Make things important?" He guessed, giving the other boil a questioning look.

This other boil was behaving very oddly indeed, but only in the subtlest hints of his body motions and sounds. Mathias's ears were sharp, as were his eyes, so he caught the small sniff, though it was not something to cause him any alarm, and the way he seemed to...almost freeze up, for just an instant, had Mathias instantly on guard. The other boils ears did not go unnoticed, the type of ears often associated with predators. Mathias had to resist the urge to ask him point blank if there was some kind of problem, instead following Frost's lead and lifting up a napkin to set upon his own lap, before placing his hands back on the table and tapping a single claw against it's dark, wooden surface.

And then he blinked, his eyes widening. "Courtship?" he had a basic understanding of what that meant. It had to do with finding ones mate, something his parents had discussed with him once, though his attention span was short and he'd had trouble focusing on what they were trying to teach him. "I am not yet interested in such things." He thought that it would be best to mention that right off the bat, in case this boil got any strange ideas, despite him going on to explain that wasn't what this was about.

"Yes, meeting others, that is all I vished for." He stopped tapping on the table to reach up and scratch at his temple, his ears folding back slightly as he did so, before perking back up when he stopped.

"You have been living here for long time?" He asked, "Vould like to know how easy you have adapted. Vut vas biggest shock for you? I am from forest land, a natural place. So much of school is very unnatural to me."