When Kiri has all her food she approaches the opposite side of the table from Idarai.

"Hey. Can my roommate and I sit here?"

"You're not going to pull a knife, are you?"

"I'm not. Emily, do you plan to pull a knife?"

"If I wanted a knife I wouldn't have to pull one, but yeah, no." She sits down near but not directly adjacent to him. 

Kiri gives him the table's worth of space. "So what brings you here."

"In my world, sentient beings are routinely enslaved so that humans can exploit their magical power, and raped so that humans can have more powerful children."

"Eesh. I have an alien invasion and Emily has killer robots."

He looks very slightly less dejected. "You have my condolences. What are 'aliens' and 'robots'?"

"Aliens are beings from a different planet and robots are creatures constructed out of metal without the use of magic. Your roommate is one, though not of the kind we have at home; those ones don't really have minds."

"He did say he didn't need to eat--how do you know this?"

Emily demonstratively levitates a fork. "But also my twin sister Edie mindread everyone a little bit when we came in, sorry about that, we really wanted to know who was the most dangerous."

Bitter smile. "I can see why."

"Edie came up to me to apologize and we worked out this roommate situation. We came and sat with you based on what Edie'd picked up off you, you seem, you know, not the default classmate one expects at a place called Mind Control University."

"I should hope not. My roommate seems alright so far, for whatever it's worth." He doesn't sound terribly optimistic. 

"Edie and I were originally going to room together; it would have been safer but Kiri needed a roommate and Edie really likes babies."

"I suppose I can't blame her for that. I would be much more comfortable rooming with the infant than with the infant's mother, personally." 

"I think they're a set. Hopefully she and Edie get along okay but I don't see Edie yet..."

"I don't mean to suggest I would separate mother and child," he says hastily, "just that babies are significantly less concerning than, well," he nods to indicate the entire population of the cafeteria. 

"Yeah. Hopefully the baby is not secretly some kind of mind control baby but I wouldn't put it past this place." Nom. "- okay wow the food is really good."

Nom. "It really is. This place is really good at...I don't know how to say it. Appealing to the kind of person who would come here without some kind of crisis back home?"

"Come for the hapless townies, stay for the delicious entrées?"

"More like...encouraging people who hadn't thought a lot about the ethical considerations to go on not thinking about it. You know how people can be when asked to sacrifice personal comfort for ethical concerns."

"Yeah. Very easy to be personally comfortable here."

Idarai stares down at his plate of food as though it has personally offended him. 

A moment later, Edie and her roommate enter the cafeteria sans baby. Edie spots their table immediately and hurries over, sitting on the other side of her sister from Idarai. 

"Hi," she says to him. "I'm Edie. I read your mind a little bit in Orientation and I should apologize for that."