He finishes the page and sighs and rubs his temples.

And he sits.

"Hello again."

"Hi. You're not annoying, don't worry about my mood."

"Okay, won't worry," he nods. "And I found people to play board games."

"Oh, so quickly? Uh, so do any of them have games of their own, I only have a few..."

"I think one of them might have Catan? But otherwise no, they're newbies too."

"Well, I have enough board games to be going on with. Power Grid. Ticket to Ride. Axis and Allies, but that's a complicated and two-player one. Catan's a nice introductory sort of game."

"Awesome, then we can all be introduced. When do you wanna play?"

"Tomorrow after 5? In that dorm common area? I kind of want to meet these people you managed to round up so quickly but that can happen then."

"Sounds good."

"I shall arrange for snacks and clear space. Talk to everyone else in the dorms, make sure nobody else has plans for the common area then."

"Will do!"

At the appointed time: there's Sadde plus two other doms Terry might recognise as Andrew and Dominic (appropriately enough).

"Hello, hello, sirs and madam. Let me introduce a friend of mine who turned out to be interested in this - Wendy."

"Hi. Should we all introduce ourselves...?"

"I'm Sadde. I'm new here, my father didn't want me to come before around now, but I didn't get locked up or anything."

    "I'm Dominic and I won't tell any of you to call me Dom," he says, with a smirk.

    "Andrew," nods the other dom. "I don't—have anything smart or interesting to say."

"I'm Terry. I have a bunch of board games."

"My name is Wendy. I keep not knowing how things work, so I hope you can be patient with me if I do something strange." With a longer sentence, a southern accent is apparent from her.

"Cool! So, shall we start?"

"Yes! Oh, I got snacks for everyone." He gestures at bags of chips and bottles of soda. "Take 'em. We should do Settlers of Catan first, it does five players just fine, it's a good intro sort of game."

"I've played that, can I set it up for everyone?"

"Do that," says Dominic.

With a smile, she points her eyes down to the table. The game box's lid floats off and the pieces start to arrange themselves of their own accord.

"Oh, right, Wendy's a mage. A pretty fast-learning one I'd say."

    "Awesome, teekay," he comments. "I'm doing elements." Fire on tip of finger.

    "I'm a psion. Doing sleep now," murmurs Andrew.

"Mage, gendershifting and biokinesis."