Nathan Xavier
August 10, 2014 6:31 PM
Teppenpaws, please follow me by Nathan Xavier
Nathan Xavier sat at the staff table during the sorting, watching the new students change colors. He clapped for all of them, but took special interest in the ones that turned yellow, as these were the ones joining his House. He watched to make sure they all found the way to the right table, and kept a tally to make sure he had an accurate count to collect after the feast.He clapped proudly for Melanie Lennox as she was awarded Head Girl as she was one of the Teppenpaw seventh years (though, to be entirely honest, he'd been hoping Miss Yale might get it as she'd done such a wonderful job taking care of his cat last year while he was 'away', but he thought Melanie was an excellent choice as well). He was mildly disappointed Marcus Crosby hadn't joined her for a Teppenpaw sweep, but he was sure James Carey would do fine, too.
He ate well at the feast, easing his nerves with food. It was only his second year as Head of House, and last year he'd ended up trapped in Sonora's holding room for intruders for most of a semester, so it hadn't exactly been a great start for his leadership of the Prairie Dogs.
Soon enough, though, the forty year old finished off the last of his apple pie and stood up. He still had a few extra pounds around his middle, but not as many as he'd had last year. He'd lost weight during the confinement - Sonora's holding room provided intruders with enough food to survive, but not a lot more - so he'd lost weight during last year and he'd managed not to gain it all back since then.
He headed toward his House's table and beckoned quietly for formerly yellow children to gather around him, but he waited for Selina to finish gathering her students before calling out, "Teppenpaws, please. Will the new Teppenpaw first years please come here if you're not here already?" There was hurry, and so no need to try to yell over her.
Once he had the proper number of eleven year olds surrounding him, he said, "Everyone here should have turned yellow during the sorting. If you didn't turn yellow, you are in the wrong place. Does anyone need to be redirected to the appropriate professor?" He waited to see if he had accidentally gotten any Aladrens, Crotali, or Pecaris.
When he felt sure he had the correct group of first years, he said, "Welcome to Sonora, Teppenpaws. I am Mr. Xavier, your Head of House and the school groundskeeper. I will now lead you to the Teppenpaw Common Room, so keep close, and pay attention so you can make your way back here for breakfast tomorrow." Last year, he'd had good intentions of being available to help them find their way back, but, well, that hadn't worked out, and they'd been on their own anyway.
OOC – You do not need to reply to this post, although you may if you wish to. This thread continues in the Teppenpaw Common Room. You now have permission to post there and elsewhere in the school (except other common rooms). You may also continue your threads at the feast, due to what we call 'fuzzy time' – where you can post in multiple threads at the same time, but they each take place at different times from your character's perspective, so he or she remains in only one place at a time.
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