<strong>Around the Hall</strong><br/><br/>Within the main hall, around the noon meal, scores of the academy's residents were present, talking, showing off, eating.  As was common, dozens of plates and other things were floating lazily around the room.  The globes of magical light cast away shadows and a few younger students were in a corner, seeing how fast they could make a set of silver platters fly around a makeshift racetrack.  vArious familiars flew, walked, and slithered around as well.  The place was a cacophony to rival the largest southern marketplace.