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Mad Eye Touz
Aspen remembered a day she played with him in the snow that had seemed VERY therapeutic to him. She was sure he hadn't forgotten it either, whether he'd thought about it or not.
He was DEFINITELY thinking about her want of him on the Platform though. He was THINKING over there, and if he'd stop being a twerp and give her her BOOK, she might be able to start learning how to READ those thoughts from his head. By the time she was finished thinking this though, he was out with an answer.
An agreeable answer, at that. "Then arrange it. I'll give you further instructions if you really do show up." That'd been easy, and she clearly had him on the brink of asking her more questions, so Aspen decided to use the tilt her way to her advantage.
First, she took her hat off and placed the big, sun-blocking thing on Joao's head. Then, quite carelessly, she rested each of her forearms on his shoulders, sort of giving him a messy, incomplete hug. She was sure she had his attention in any case. Did she have his WHOLE attention? Hmmm?
Aspen liked to give orders, didn't she?
"Sim, senhorita," he said in a serious manner as he bowed. Then, when he drew a breath to ask her some of his questions, her hat was on his head. He paused, trying to come up with a reasonable comeback. The way she hugged him--certainly her arms wouldn't go all the way down to the book.
"You can't distract me with your hat, lady," he said, settling on doing nothing in the end. He could even tolerate the hat for a few seconds.
"You have to answer my questions too. It's only polite to give something in exchange of another thing." He moved his arm that held the book again, though he still kept it at the back.
Ready for the questions?
"You didn't exactly say all the reasons to meet me. What are those?" He paused as if he tried to choose his next question.
"Also, what will be the 'instructions' if I do show up?"