Early in the morning

Morning. 7am. It had been raining for the past 3 days and everyone's general mood was down. At their tables, the students were still yawning, half asleep and half bored, noses in their cups of tea or milk.

Nothing interesting seemed to happen. The owls had problems delivering the newspapers, packages and even letters. And if one managed to get in in time, then it would be all wet from the drops of rain.

The bad things happening outside Kwadleigh didn't matter that much anymore. Even the teachers were not that talkative. Professor Chateaunoir hadn't opened her mouth at all and the others didn't seem to be too willing to talk either. If the room could yawn, it surely would.

Now and then a clumsy and sleepy student would drop something on the floor and that would finally make some noise, startle the other half-dreaming students... But then... the same boring silence. Suddenly... a distant sound... wings?? Approaching... more wings...

"Oh finally!! NEWS!" was the only and first thought passing through Chateaunoir's head. And as she finally looked up from her coffee, she couldn't help but notice the broad smiles on everyone's faces.

"Well, I hope at least the news about the weather will be good!!" Zimfindell cried as she grabbed "The Morning Owl" with both hands.

Riddle chuckled, not really paying attention to the others. It seemed like she found a most exquisite article. "What now, Mel?" Chateaunoir smiled. "Don't tell me they finally decided to write some "wonderful" things about us. Yeah right.. as if..."

"No... it's just that they announced again... beautiful weather for tomorrow."
"Does that mean we need to buy umbrellas?"
"Yeah... Same old stupid things. Are they ever gonna write something interesting?? You cannot even believe them! More rumors than facts!"

Looking at the students' tables Aylin couldn't help but murmur: "So where did the silence go?" Well, obviously it was gone: Andrew was shouting something towards the Phoenix. Adara was lost in a very deep conversation with Raven. Unicorns were a lot more active than normal and seemed very preoccupied about something, and the Vampires... just muffled laughs coming out from that side of the room.

"Again? I wonder what's it about now" Prof Riddle sighed and shook her head.