"Excuse me, sir," a timid voice sounded out from a column near Kaiden. With a small start, he turned, his fingers twitching for his wand btu knowing there would be little to really threaten him here at the castle. 

"Sorry. Did you say something?," Kaiden said, leaning to the side to spy a small humanoid shape dressed in some kind of sack sewn together with half a dozen lines of stitching. Kaiden had seen a house elf before, but had never had the experience of having one serve in his own house. From what he understood, the little creatures had a surprising amount of magic, but universally served humans for reasons that were never clear to Kaiden.

"Lunch is being served," the elf mentioned, gesturing up the main corridors towards the Great Hall, "in the Hall, sir. Several of the teachers have already gathered..."

"Ah," Kaiden said, shifting his weight uncomfortably from foot to foot, "I suppose I should join them. I don't suppose you know if this is going to take terribly long? Theres a pair of jobberknolls near the edge of the forest that have been having troub-" He turned to look back at the elf and realized they had already disappeared, their message apparently given.

"Damn," he muttered, shaking his head and running a hand through his hair, "well, best go say Hi if we're supposed to be going to a party or whatever..."

Maybe it was the closeness of the walls, or maybe the size of the castle over all... or it could be the dozen or so ghosts that drifted through the hall and paintings, but the castle always unsettled Kaiden. The ghosts were friendly enough, and politeness made him stop and share more than a few words with the ghosts that seemed chatty. The end result is that it seemed he was quite late to lunch, arriving after the food had begun to appear on the tables. 

Slipping past the doors, he offered a sheepish smile towards the gathered professors, hoping to just kind of snag a pastry off the table and offer a few polite introductions. "Apologies for running late, I was seeing to a bird that had caused a bit of a ruckus at Hogsmeade a few days ago. Pleasure to meet you, I'm Kai," he said, offering a friendly nod of his head. Ironically, he actually seemed to pay more attention to the familiars that had accompanied some of his new coworkers, nodding his head deeper towards them and smiling a bit wider to see that there were at least a few animal companions here. Depending on how friendly the familiars were, most of Kaiden's lunch would end up shared out among the less human members of the table, though he was very careful to avoid feeding anything harmful to them.