Text Cut: Felix
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Originally Posted by
Tommehbell 
Felix nearly dropped her jawbreaker as the compartment doors creaked open. She had been in the middle of a great daydream about blue and green edible bubbles that you could ride in.
She grinned at the new girl.
"I never mind company." She slid over close to the window in case the girl wanted to sit on the same seat with Felix. Though that would be awkward, well not for Felix she didn't take up a lot of room, but the girl might have a thing about personal bubbles.
"I've just been trying to calculate how long it will take me to get to the center of this." She waved her jawbreaker at the girl.
"My daddy says there is a surprise in the center but you have to get to it within a year and you can't cheat like keeping it in water. Who would put a jawbreaker in water that takes all the fun out of licking. Not a lot of people invest in proper licking technique. My baby cousin Cuba is a great licker. She once licked a baby snow leopard." Felix held out her jawbreaker.
"How long do you think it would take to get to the center? I figure you have to divide the radius of the jawbreaker by the drag coefficient of the lick then square the day of the week."
Ariadne could tell she kind of took the girl by surprise when she opened the compartment door. Duh. Who wouldn't have been shocked to have a door suddenly fly open when they were least expecting it? It didn't seem to bother her too much and for too long, though.
"Alright, cool," she said, plopping down into a seat and getting comfortable. She looked down at her feet and watched them swing back and forth for a bit. They actually touched the floor this time. Last school year, her feet just dangled above the ground.
"You're trying to calculate something about your candy?" she asked.
"Sounds complicated." She started to ask if the girl was a Ravenclaw, but it also looked like she might be a first year.
"So are you a first year?" She hadn't seen her around, and by this point, she'd seen about all the regulars. Her eyebrows perked up when she found out there was a surprise in the center.
"Oh, well no wonder you want to know how long it'll take to get there!" She had no idea how long it would take to get there.
"I don't know. How big was it when you started?" And...
"A baby snow leopard? Why?"
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"Divide the what of the jawbreaker and drag the what? That sounds like a really difficult piece of candy to eat," she said.
"My mind hasn't figured out the school year's started yet, and I'm still in denial." She pulled out the first of her chocolate frogs.
"I'm just concerned with the chocolate frog card that's inside and whether or not I already have it."