Olly was tapping her leg and the house elf was still crying. All in all they were getting no where with this. The house elf seemed inconsolable and if she got any louder Lex would find herself spending an evening down in the dungeons with Olly and whoever happened to walk by. This was the first floor, yeah? She began weighing her options. Professor Romanos wouldn't have been so bad...Hadley either....Lex didn't know much about the HoM!Guy but he blew stuff up...this would be fine--unless the HEADMISTRESS was the one to show up.

Yeah....on second thought, quiet Argyle, this all just got really serious.

Alexa let Olly have another try at soothing the poor thing but that obviously wasn't working that well because there was MOAR crying. jvsdkfguisgfi! STAAAAHP!

"Okay okay, stop, look." Lex held out the box of sharpies and made deliberate movements to get the marker back inside. "See? No more drawing? Now you, no more tears, right??"

If the house elf didn't want help then fiiiiine, no help here, but PLEASE, the crying, just no. "Olly's done drawing too, aren't you Olly?" She asked, giving an exaggerated look to the box for her to put her sharpie in there too. "Nothing to worry about, we won't get in trouble." UNLESS YOU KEEP CRYING, MERLIN!