"Sure, fun for you," Ryden stated flatly, although there was the barest hint of a smile in her words that wasn't there before. She couldn't call the experience of having no voice FUN, but it had certainly been rather entertaining once you look back on it. Although she'd have to come up with a better system for communicating when her voice was unavailable.

Come up with what? Oh, right. Hehe. "I'll choose to take that as a complement, Koala Boy," the brunette replied with a grin, finally able to look back up at him. Aha, awkward moment GONE. THANK MERLIN. That had been very strange. Ryden made a mental note to think over this later and reach some answers because this was unacceptable. If Hogwarts was turning her soft and emotional, she'd HAVE to transfer. It was the one thing she swore she would not let it do.

... Awkwardness was back.

Averting her eyes, she instead gazed at her blank roll of parchment. The truth was very easy - what WASN'T bothering her? But as soon as he asked the question, Ryden knew that she would not give a straight answer. She couldn't - she didn't even know Koala Boy's last name, she wasn't about to start dumping her depressing life story on him.

"It's fine, Koala Boy. Nothing's wrong," she said with a sigh, then pointed at the book he was supposedly reading although she had a sneaking suspicion he'd been rereading the same line for quite a while. Just a reader's instinct. "What you got there?" subject changing time. YEP YEP.