Czy moje oczy wariują, czy... jest tu dużo ludzi...?
No, Beata's eyes were not playing tricks on her—the hallway leading to her morning class was indeed teeming with people. Through the push and pull of the human river, students sought their classrooms with precocious lethargy, their late-night activities evidently taking their toll. On still shores, some loitered, whiling the time away in idle chatter with equally lackadaisical companions.
Beata the country bumpkin was clearly out of her element. It had only been recently that she realized navigable space was a luxury she had taken for granted. To think this was but one hall in an Academy that was brimming with them!
"A-Ah!" The first-year yelped when she felt a forceful shove on her arm. A guy glanced back at her over his shoulder, his eyes slitted and piercing. Move, you dimwit! Beata could grasp the meaning behind that baleful look. She would have apologized had he not disappeared so quickly into the throng.
Clutching her chest as though that could ease the guilt gnawing at her heart, Beata heaved a soft sigh and steeled herself. She had been staying here for weeks now. This was not new. This was not intimidating. She could do this.
Done with her self-reassurance routine, the Pannonian stepped into the all-consuming maw of foot traffic. Her lithe frame wove between shuffling bodies with all the flexibility her dancing prowess afforded. When that wasn't enough, she resorted to elbowing and shouldering her way through, mouthing apologies too hushed to be heard above the din—not that anyone particularly cared.
She was making such good progress...
THUMP!
...until she bumped into you. Face-first.
"Oh!" Beata was not sure whether that was her or you yelping, but she was certain that those sheets of paper had just fallen from your hands and onto the ground, all thanks to her. Dobra robota, dziewczyno...
Immediately, Beata dropped to a squat, hurriedly gathering the scattered paper. "Sorry! Very sorry!" Even in urgency, her voice still managed to be singsong. "Allow me to help!"
