Their lunch table this year had expanded quite a bit. Besides what made up the core of their group from last year, they had added a fair number of Neri’s friends, since she was now a permanent establishment with them.
The school was, at this point, fairly used to their weird quartet; although they were still an object of curiosity, especially to the incoming new students. Many of the teachers were less thrilled and they got regular looks of displeasure from them. These were mostly teachers they didn’t interact with regularly who didn’t know them though.
“Feeling better,” The Count asked Bruno as he sat down across from her and Norma and next to Zoe.
“I assume. There isn’t much I can do about it now. Hopefully, you have more luck. But,” she said finally smiling, “we have some brighter ne
