Food... yum!

[Elyia]

I enter the Great Hall and sit down by myself at the end of the Slytherin table. I dish out some food onto my plate and begin eating. Mmm... this is good!!

[Madden]

Madden entered, looking around, trying to remember which table to sit at. Did it matter? Then she recognised a girl she had been sitting by the night before. She walked over and sat across from her. "I'm new here. My name is Madden," she said, fiddling with one of her two long, black braids. "This is Slytherin, right? Do you mind if I sit here?"

[~Persephone~]

Persephone walked in her long silver blonde hair dancing playfully around her small frame. At 5 foot she was extremly small for her age. She saw some girls sitting down, but they didn't look extremly comfortable. She walked over to the Ravenclaw table, but it really didn't matter which one you sat at. People sometimes preformed table hopping anyway.
She thought it would be a good idea to say hi to the two girls anyway. She walked up to them and sighed. Now it was time to engage in conversation.
"Hi, I'm Persephone."

[Madden]

Madden looked up at the light voice that greated them. "I love that name. It's beautiful," she said, smiling. Holding out a dark hand, her emerald eyes sparkling, she added, "I'm Madden, by the way."

[Elyia]

Elyia smiled. "Hello to you both, my name is Elyia. Please, join me." She gestured to the empty bench next to her.

[Madden]

Madden smiled. "Thanks, I would love to." As she sat, her baggy robes swished around her, and her long, black hair obscured her vision. Using a couple of very colorfull pencils, she secured her main of hair behind her head in a messy bun and leaned forward for sausage and syrup. "I just love the food here."

[Elyia]

Elyia beamed. "I do too. Have you been here for a while, or are you new here too?"

[Madden]

After swallowing a rather large bit of sausage, she answered, "Oh, I've been here a bit. Not too long, but a little while. I like it. How are you finding it?"

[Elyia]

Elyia shrugged. "It's better than my old school, that's for sure."

[Madden]

Madden was a bit puzzled. "Your old school? Did you transfer here? Because I thought they didn't like that. I did. This is my fifth year-my first four I went to Durmstrang. I was told it was very untraditional and I wouldn't meet anyone else who had."

[Elyia]

Elyia nodded. "I went to Beauxbatons my fist four years, then my dad got a job offer here in England at the Ministry of Magic, so I had to transfer. I like it here better, half the girls in France were a bit too into themselves."

[Madden]

Madden tilted her head back as she laughed. "I can see that as a possibility. I mean, no offense. I can just see that as being very, very true. But I'm not sure if I like it here better. I haven't met too many people, and those I have met don't really talk to me. It can get a bit quiet, and I must say I was never one for quiet."

[Elyia]

Elyia flashed a grin. "I'm not offended, I meant what I said." She laughed. "I'm not one for silence either... it's rather haunting."

[Madden]

Madden tilted her head in thought. "No, I don't think I would use the word 'haunting'. I think I would say....loud."

[Elyia]

Elyia giggled. "That's a better word than haunting. Silence does seem to get rather loud when it's all around you. My older brother swears his ears vibrate more when there's silence than when there's noise."