While she was not one to admit to her softer side, something about the newcomer [Awarlesta Black] struck a chord with her and she was soon extending one of her slender (but deceptively strong) arms towards the vacancy across from her. "Available, if you will," she offered coolly. Since no one else of her own house seemed to acknowledge her need.

Jesus received a bit of a mischievously grin, one that came to be from her tongue running over the front of her teeth beneath her lips. "We will talk later," she informed him. As for the food selection, Valerie was not miffed as she was in possession of a cat's tongue, so to speak. "You should have come prepared," she teased, of course flicking another of his curls with her pale fingers as her eyes looked beyond him and fell on another newcomer [PhoenixRising] with mild interest. Her grey eyes did follow the other girl's gaze (to Brenton, of course) and soon was rolling her eyes. Not just because of this girl (who was now in conversation with another (Harron Peasley), but also what Kyle had to say. She would not explain why she was defending the castle's aesthetic, but she did find the comment a bit unwarranted. "Of course they do. We travel in a Beetle. Not a timeturner."

That ghost. Congratulations to it because it had left an instant salty flavor in the sixth year's mouth. She only placed partial blame on the younger boy [Bazinga] with whom the ghost was conversing with for his commentary and speaking about herself and her schoolmates (however accurate some of his descriptive words were) as though they were incapable of processing sound. "Does one’s hearing get worse when one no longer has a physical form?" she asked the ghost with a sneer. "We can hear you. We are right here." The ghost was perfectly welcome to ignore Aurora (which she was continuing to do), however. Aurora and her premature assumptions.

Oh but she saw everything, Katherine Toussaint. A name she would commit to memory. Wasteful girl (bread roll turned baseball) and Valerie would be having a talk with Kyle later about his taste in company if that girl was the one who had caught his eye.

Her light eyes returning to the food on her plate, Valerie's brow raised at the savory looking cream puffs smothered in gravy with some sort of cooked meat (she assumed beef) on the side. "What...is this?"