It's the kind of place she would've been brought up in, were her mother still the Queen of Wonderland. 

So she hates it.

It's no forest, that's all Ashwin cares about.

"Beautiful, isn't it? We wanted students to feel right at home." Fairy Godmother seems unaware that the kids don't seem thrilled with it. She leads them on, showing them the winding stairs, the sprawling grounds, the far-too-ornate classrooms.

They get many stares from the students. Most seem wary, some are angry. A few look disgusted.

"Feel right at home"?!

He continues staring around with wide eyes. Shrinks at noticing the stares. But they're right to look like that...

Blah blah blah fanciness. She keeps an eye out for good places to catch someone by surprises, hiding places, places to listen in without being noticed. 

Staring's not a crime, but some things that start with staring sure are. She remembers everyone she notices at it.

It's pretty cool! She looks around while also looking for the kinds of things Greta is. When they're not looking she glares back at the rude students.

Oh no, angry stares, whatever shall Cati do?

"I've endured worse than that for not doing my hair right," she stage-whispers to Ashwin.

Ashwin snorts. "An angry stare is practically an 'I love you' back home."

Oh no. He looks at them with distress. (It's not that he doesn't know that lots of the Island kids' parents hurt them. But.)

"Don't mind them, they'll get used to you, just as you will them. They're going to be your classmates, after all." 

Fairy Godmother leads them up one flight of stairs, down a hall, finally stopping in front of a room. "Ladies, this is you. The boys and I will leave you to get settled."

Cati grips Ashwin's hand. "Later?"

Ashwin hears the hidden question. "Later," he confirms.

How did this person get to be headmistress? Or maybe she's not actually that stupid and just feels like pretending. 

She's also pretty sure that 'get used to' is for things like 'unexpected surprise' and not for things like 'want you to have stayed on the Isle'. Well, unless they try something against Greta or Greta wants her to, dealing with Auradon students is not her job. She goes to check out the room.

It's very ornate, with three four-poster beds set up in it, as well as three wardrobes, three desks, and a statue of...someone important, no doubt, smack bang in the middle of the room.

Their bags have been delivered, and left by each bed.

That's not a very convenient place for a statue. Is it someone she'd recognize from TV?

They're fast at moving furniture though! Which beds have their bags?

It's definitely a familiar face, as if it's someone's mother, or someone grown up. 

The left most has Greta's, the middle has Lisbet's. The pile of luggage on the last bed can only be Cati's.

"Oh, they've got to be kidding."

Cati is looking at the statue with a mixture of disgust and exhaustion.

Good, she can be next to Greta and protect her if it's needed.

"You know them?"

"You could say that. It's Alice."

"..."

"I probably have something around here if you want to smash it and not just toss a sheet over it. Can say it fell over."

(She wonders what the second room was going to have had, and what the boys get.)

"I won't antagonise the good guys too much. Yet. I may just draw a moustache on her. You know, harmless vandalism."

Cati swans past, heading for her suitcases to start unpacking.

Her lookout. 

They'll also unpack. 

Cati has an almost ridiculous amount of clothing that she unpacks. All in red and black and white, all far too formal for what should be a school setting. And is that an actual ball gown?

The beauty of the clothes does not mean they get treated well, however, as Cati shoves them in the wardrobe without care. The only things she hangs up seem to be casual athletic wear.