06-30-05

Characters involved: Darklett, Zoe_Lang, Gynyvieve, & Ralai.

Salamandastron: Dining Chamber

Dinner time is never a dull time in the mountain Salamandastron-- After all, perilous hares have perilous appetites that need to be filled! Especially in times like these. So, hares fill the dining chamber, more coming from the kitchen, other latecomers coming from wherever they were before to pick up their first helpings. Darklett, however, must have been sitting there for a while; what lay on the table before him isn't what they're serving for dinner. It's mostly uneaten, in fact the small bowl of fruits is only marginally emptied, and the cheeses and breads the hare picked each have a single bite taken from them. So, he just stares at it, at the corner of a table in the corner of the room, surrounded by uppity, talkative hares. Oof.

Not all are uppity. Some, in fact, are rickety. Zoe, for instance, as she enters the dining chamber from the hallway. She passes by a group of chattering hares on her way to the main table, but then, she spies yon Darklett in the corner. Hmm. Perhaps she'll wait to eat. The Colonel crosses the room, stopping at the foot of his table. Ahem. "Evenin'."

Darklett's gaze on his food never breaks, except to blink, up until the colonel addresses him. He looks up, revealing big bags under his eyes. Apparently, he's still having trouble sleeping. "Evening, Colonel Zoe." The lieutenant still manages to give the officer a salute, though he makes no move to stand up.

Well, he seems welcoming enough. The doe takes a seat at the table opposite him, and keeps quiet for the moment. Give him time, and all that.

Darklett slowly starts nodding off as he stares at his food, his head bobbing slowly downward until his eyes close, at which point he straightens back up and looks back and forth to see if anyone caught him. Oh, and Zoe's right there. >.< "Not eating, Colonel?" He says, obviously to fill the silence between them.

Gynyvieve sits at a table and plays with her sitar

"Not 's it seems, lad." Zoe links her paws together at the back of her neck and just leeeeans back. Peer.

Darklett looks confusedly at the Colonel, his eyelids drooping again. His head goes down and he stares at his food, picking a piece of sliced melon up and bringing it slowly to his mouth, taking a small bite out of it. His eyes move up to the Colonel, the hare shying away when he realizes he's still under her eye.

Gynyvieve,even, from the other end of the room, can feel the stare, though she has no clue what is going on

Brow-quirk. "Good melon?" Zoe continues with the looking.

Darklett's eyes move up to Zoe as she addresses him again. "Why are you watching me like this?" He says, his voice sounding paranoid as a voice ever could.

Ralai walks into the room looking a bit tired but happy nonetheless seeing the others says"hello sir,ma'am,miss zoe"

Paranoia. Hm. "Was just thinkin' of a few things, I s'pose. Sorry." Her tone is amiable enough, and at Ralai's greeting, she finally looks away. "Evenin'."

Gynyvieve looks up from her sitar. "Good evening, sir."

Ralai says, "please call me ralai i am no sir"

Darklett takes another bite of the melon, then places it back into the bowl it came from. Ralai is... well, ignored. But so is everyone else, as he starts nodding off again, only to sit back up with his eyes slightly widened once he drifts off. Now, he eyes the cheese, his paw venturing towards it, his vision moving towards the Colonel as he does so.

Gynyvieve nods. "Ok, then. Ralai."

Ralai grabs some food and sets it on a plate and the moves over to the wall and starts eating it leaning against the wall

Gynyvieve looks around bashfully, then pulls one of her own herbal cookies out.

Gynyvieve nibbles behind her sitar, hoping no one sees it.

"What's goin' on, Dark?" Finally, Zoe asks The Question. She looks slightly puzzled, with a teeny wrinkle to her brow.

Darklett looks around the crowded room as soon as she asks. "Uh..." He looks back to her, leaning in and speaking softly. "I don't know," he answers, simply, looking apprehensive to talk at the moment.

Ralai walks off in the direction of the guest dorms

Just at that moment, a hare comes up to the small table where Dark and Zoe sit, and whispers something in her ear. With a single ear twitch, the doe stands with a look of apology to Darklett. "... Somethin' t' attend t', 'scuse me." She nods to the messenger hare, and off she heads for the door.