It was a great morning at the luxurious Beacon Academy, for one Nora Valkyrie. Why was it so good? Well, after a long day of battling Grimm and adorable redheads, and an equally long night of partying with her team, Renny's team and too much pizza, she had amazing night's sleep. There were some weird vibes between her partner Ilia and some other girl on her team, Blake, but she was sure it was just a lover's quarrel or something. At least judging by the amount of blushing that chameleon faunus seemed to do around Blake. Or Weiss. Or herself for that matter.
Maybe Ilia just loved to blush?
She would too if it resulted in her changing to such pretty colours.
Anyways, it was a great morning. She was sitting in the cafeteria, because of course a school as amazing as this one would have a free cafeteria. Ren had brought her a heaping plate of pancakes with enough syrup to drown an Ursa and even let her know that there was still more if she was hungry. Ilia had politely declined the offer to share some of her pancakes, which was a fantastic decision on her partner's part (and even more points in her book).
So there she was, surrounded by teammates, eating enough food to fill up her, in an air-conditioned room, while wearing clean clothes that she or Ren hadn't stolen. Who knew not living on the street or in orphanages would be so great?! Not her, that's for sure.
Ren definitely made the right choice voting for them to attend Beacon. Well, Ren and her both voted and Ren's vote counted as one vote and hers as three, but the thought was still there! It was a unanimous vote and, being as she was the queen, Nora was magnanimous in allowing Renny some credit. But not all of it.
She took another giant bite of pancakes off her fork, being careful to keep the syrupy drizzle from landing anywhere but inside her awaiting mouth. Oh it tasted heavenly. It tasted divine. It tasted as good as she expected pure sugar to taste. Darn that Ren and his insistence on not giving her pure sugar.
Even the thought of it was making her mouth water.
Well… water more. She was halfway through a heaping stack of pancakes and syrup after all.
"Hey Renny? Can you get me another plate?" She asked, fanning her eyes at him, only to have him give one of his patented so-quick-blink-and-you-miss-it eyerolls.
"You still have pancakes left on your plate. I promise to get you some more when it's all gone."
"Renny!" Nora whined. "What if all the pancakes are gone by then? What would I do without a full stomach?"
"I… I, umm, I can get you some more if you like?" Ilia sheepishly raised a hand and chimed in.
Pointing a fork at her, Nora gave her a smile. "I knew I liked you. You have officially taken Ren's spot as super pancake server. Congratulations."
Ilia erupted into orange and pink, skipping off to get her partner a plate of pancakes.
Quick chapter. This is literally just to reach 50k on the dot. So here ya go!