#t:major drawback

[delicatevalentine]

major drawback » claude & hilda

In collaboration with the kitchen staff, the archery professors have come up with a fun game. Each ring of the target corresponds with a piece of cutlery. Outer ring = Knife, Inner ring = Fork, Bullseye = spoon. Each student gets 3 arrows and whatever they hit is the cutlery they get to eat dinner with that night. Will they get all three or a strange mix or none? Either way the chefs hope they enjoy a hearty meal of soup, pasta with pesto & sausages, chocolate pecan pie and ice cream. [Grants Bow +1]

“That was exhausting,” Hilda complained to her House Leader as they headed towards the Dining Hall. Claude had orchestrated a gruelling training session, refusing to acknowledge her various excuses, and she was ready for a well-deserved meal and a long nap, in that order. “You’re lucky I’m still willing to eat with you after what you just put us through. I hope dinner tonight is at least—” 

She stopped abruptly as they arrived, noticing that the chaotic din of the hall was far beyond its usual levels of commotion today. 

“Huh?” 

By the main entrance, the front tables had been cleared to make way for a row of targets. As she stood there, momentarily bewildered by this development, a group of students approached an available target. One by one, they drew back their bowstrings and unleashed each of their three missiles. Even more confusingly, one was lamenting at what she’d supposed would be a good score: three bullseyes. 

Finally, she noticed the two details that allowed her to put two and two together: the kitchen staff, taking stock of scoring and handing out cutlery accordingly, and the text printed around the circumference of each ring, boasting the utensils they rewarded you with. 

Hilda stomped her foot in an – at worst, childish, and at best, endearing – expression of frustration. “They’re putting work into mealtimes now?!” 

With a desperate look at Claude and a bat of her eyelashes, she pleaded, “You’ll shoot my arrows for me, right?” 

@boundlesshart