SPOILER!!: Eden
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Originally Posted by
kayquilz
Eden nodded over at Toby and let go of his haaaaand. "I think we'll be okay too...and I'm not sure if the dark will last forever..." and for forever, she meant the rest of the class. It was so odd. Eden was tired, but she wasn't sleepy tired, so the darkness just felt so...WEIRD.
She searched her skin for bites--which she hadn't noticed before due to adrenaline, but she could SO feel them now...all over her legs....
"OH! That's bloody great!" she cried, taking his and then--"Wait...do you?" she didn't want to take it all. "I'll take half--and you can--oh--wait--" She felt her pocket and...pulled out her own. "OKAY. We both have our own. That's good." Because she was starting to itch them....hmm...she took a sniff and was about to drink it--because she was confused, obvi--when she stopped, the glass touching her lips.
...."We don't drink this, do we?" she sighed and rubbed her face. WAS CLASS ONLY LIKE AN HOUR LONG OR SO? THIS FELT LIKE FIVE MILLION HOURS ALREADY. Had they died yet?
Spreading some of the essence on all of her leg bites, she moved onto her arms and sighed..."So....I guess we should...start walking soon again? I don't know if the night will let up....Bellaire probably wants us fumbling around in the dark to challenge us more, anyways--" she capped her essence and stood up, brushing off her skirt.
Hmph.
She held out her hand to help the Tobert up.
At first, Toby was going to insist that NO, EDEN should take the murtlap stuff. Not because he was trying to be noble or because it was the polite thing to do but because it was just a lot more natural to put other people first, whether they liked it or not. He'd just opened his mouth to protest that she, at least, should go first, but then Eden had discovered her OWN little bottle. Well. That was GOOD.
He took his own little phial back and started dabbing little drops of the stuff on his itchiest bites. Luckily, what with long sleeves and trousers, he'd only managed to cop the worst of it on his neck, face and hands. Didn't even need the full bottle before the itching was relieved and soothed. Aaahhhhh, sooOOOO MUCH BETTER.
Eden was talking by the time he'd stoppered the phial and put the rest of the essence of murtlap back in his pocket.
"Yeah, I think you're right." Ten minutes had likely passed, or close to it.
"Break's probably over, and we still don't know how many more obstacles there are." It was nerve-wracking, in an exciting sort of way. Toby's initial shock from the start of class had passed and, as Toby was pretty convinced that the class wouldn't require a patronus effort from him, he wasn't too worried about what was in store. He took Eden's hand and stood up as well.
"Right then... onward!" the Hufflepuff said enthusiastically, briefly raising their linked hands like they were WINNERS, before letting go again and moving onwards through the trees.
It wasn't terribly long before they came to a bridge, which instantly made Toby marvel because he kept forgetting and then remembering again that they were still TECHNICALLY inside. Man. Magic.
"I reckon it's definitely this way." Because... it seemed like an important Plot Point. Toby started to cross but then...
...
"... Oh."
Huge gap in the bridge. Nearly went through. Could'a died. NBD.
"I think I know what the next obstacle is."