When things seemed to have calmed down, Ella turned her attention to Professor Elwood who apparently decided to take charge again. As the professor then instructed the class to thank Professor Williamson and Mr. Murdoch for their help, Ella joined in on the clapping, hers being a little louder than she had intended. What?! She was a fan of the men is all...No big deal or anything. Nope. Oh! And now they were meant to continue on gathering the sticks? Well Ella could do that, though she'd only be taking sticks already on the ground. She didn't want to anger the Bowtruckles or Bentley by breaking the limbs off of their precious trees.

As the small blonde approached the willow tree she had been standing at originally, she over heard Professor Elwood scolding one of the students for wearing a necklace he found in the forest. Wait! HE? Ella turned to look, eyebrows raised. Boys weren't meant to wear lockets! Smirkkk. Though it wasn't all that surprising that the FABIO wannabe had been wearing one. He was probably going to pass it off as a gift he had bought for one of the many girlfriends he claimed to have. EYE ROLL. Boys were SO weird.

Bending down, the second year began looking for a good willow branch to collect. She found a rather nice looking one just to the right of where she was standing, not too big or too small. Looking around her to ensure no bowtruckles were around to attack, Ella picked it up off the ground and looked around for the next type of tree.