SPOILER!!: Tobias
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Originally Posted by
Egyptian_Blue
It's nice to meet you, Chaucer," he said. "And, actually, all of the food here is delicious, but I thought I ought to give you one suggestion instead of listing everything on the table." As if to prove his point, Tobias added a scoop of pasta and a spoonful of roasted vegetables to his golden plate. He said "indulge"! Tobias thought, smiling to himself. this boy said words that never even crossed Tobias's mind during .
Ooo yay! A name! "It's very nice to meet you, Chaucer Ipswich," Tobias replied. "Are you the only one not inheriting anything, then?" Tobias inquired, before realizing the question sounded a bit rude. "Er...not that you should or shouldn't be. But you seemed to imply that," he added hurriedly.
Tobias thought the girl's request was strange for two reasons. Firstly, tossing food was not a good idea in the best of times, and especially not just after a mysterious Professor had docked them points. Secondly, was it even possible to determine what one potato was when it was mashed? How many ounces of mashed potato created one solid tuber?
He was even more surprised when Chaucer actually tried to answer the girl's demands. Shaking his head and smiling, Tobias couldn't help but laugh out loud.
Chaucer remembered his days in the Academy for Extremely Handsome Gen.. wait... well the academy anyway, and how when his father took a tragic turn the other students immediately sprung into action. His father had owned a publishing company, but due to extreme melancholia (which Chaucer refused to call 'depression' as that implied a permanent state of unhappiness) Nathan sold it off to a family friend. Currently he conducted a private business from home involving the circulation of rare books that allowed him to spend literal days confined in his library. Chaucer always found him a sad and romantic figure, like Lord Groan of 'Gormenghast', and allowed him his privacy. Unfortunately some of the other riff-raff didn't have this same sense of admiration.
"Well, it's true I can proudly say. I am in Slytherin after all and what use is ambition when one has a company handed to them? That's right, it would be moot, redundant and ridiculous wouldn't it? You know it would!" No one here had a right to criticize him for such a 'flaw' anyway.