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[sistercest]

[The script is painfully neat and elegant, the handwriting slightly slanted. Each word is a bit slow in coming. Deliberate.]At the risk of sounding trite, it seems I have missed a great deal. It serves as a testament to the strength of those traversing these halls that education still continues, despite all...interruptions

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[ridestheprince]

Family often requires sacrifice.

Hello, my name is Anthy Himemiya.

[sistercest]

I don't think of it as a sacrifice, merely duty.

Hello, Miss Himemiya. Are you a new student?

[ridestheprince]

How lucky. You are a very dedicated sister, then.

Yes, just this week. It hasn't been long.

[sistercest]

Mm. I try my best.

I see. Did you attend Beauxbatons, by any chance? Or Durmstrang?

[ridestheprince]

No doubt your sister appreciates your efforts.

Neither of those, no. I don't suppose you've heard of Ohtori Academy. My brother is the headmaster there.

[sistercest]

I hope so.

Ohtori...I'm familiar with it, yes. Invitation-only, I've heard, quite prestigious.

[ridestheprince]

Is that what they say? Its reputation exceeds it.

[sistercest]

Does it? I suppose you would know better than anyone else.

[ridestheprince]

This school is just as satisfactory.

[sistercest]

I am pleased to hear that. By any chance, what House were you sorted in?

[ridestheprince]

A Slytherin, so said the hat. It's a peculiar arrangement.

[sistercest]

Ah, so you are a fellow Slytherin.

Peculiar? How so?

[ridestheprince]

A narrow fellow in the grass.

The collection of individuals.

[veiledviper]

[a moment, and then she pens a neat response:]

Ah. I see...it is meant to forge relationships with those we may have things in common with, I believe. Many first years are far from home, and so being sorted into a House creates a sort of camaraderie.