4th Floor Common Room, Monday Morning

[shyest-eyes.livejournal.com]

Hinata... had been thinking of boiling a few eggs for breakfast. It wasn’t hard after all, nor did it take long.

... finding out that all of the water taps gave her nothing but cocoa rather put an end to that ambition and she was now mostly amused by it as she sipped at a cup of peppermint hot chocolate.

Yei, for her part, was cheerfully attempting to stick her nose (and her head, and so on) under one of the couches.

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[robinthefrog.livejournal.com]

Robin came in, yawning. This wasn't his common room but he'd wandered up here anyway.

"Good morning." he said to Hinata, and Yei. "What's that smell?"

[shyest-eyes.livejournal.com]

"Good monring." Hinata glanced over at him, frowning thoughtfully. "What s-smell?"

[robinthefrog.livejournal.com]

Robin sniffed, despite the lack of a visible nose. "Peppermint?"

[shyest-eyes.livejournal.com]

"In the h-hot chocolate," she said, glad it was nothing else. "The t-taps are running with it."

[robinthefrog.livejournal.com]

"Really?" Robin perked up a bit. "Is it good?"

[shyest-eyes.livejournal.com]

"It's pleasant e-enough," she said, smiling. "W-Would you care for a cup of i-it?"

[robinthefrog.livejournal.com]

"Yes please." Robin nodded. "Did you have a good Thanksgiving?"

[shyest-eyes.livejournal.com]

"In the s-sense that I did nothing at all f-for it," she said lightly, moving to retrieve a small cup from the cupboard and going to the tap. "My w-world doesn't celebrate it, so I m-merely enjoyed the meal as it w-was."

Once the cup was filled she knelt and offered it to him. "Did you enjoy y-yours?"

[robinthefrog.livejournal.com]

Robin took the cup. "Thanks. Yes I did. My family doesn't usually make a big deal of it either. Since we're indigenous to the US, we don't quite have the same take on it as descendants from the Pilgrims."

[shyest-eyes.livejournal.com]

"Is there that b-big a difference in view points?" she wondered. "Simply from when you w-were here?"

[robinthefrog.livejournal.com]

Robin took a sip of his cocoa. Ooh, that was good. "Well, the traditional story is that, when the Pilgrims first arrived, they weren't able to get enough supplies together to survive the first winter. But the Indians helped them, and in gratitude they all had a big feast together. Which is a wonderful story, but it kind of ignores the rest of the history of the Europeans and the Indians. My family tends to sympathize with the Indians. Though we do like to get together then and have a big family dinner."