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Felixir · 12-30-2017, 03:26 PM

SPOILER!!: okay but same i can't get used to Abra either

Half a train's length.

That was about as far as Abra got before he finally realised how little attention he had been paying since he first started down the train. For a moment, he considered stopping and turning back and starting again - and actually he did slow down just a little bit during said consideration - but the thought of how ridiculous he would look, stopping in his tracks and turning around as though he'd forgotten something or made some sort of mistake (which he had done but shhh) or gone the wrong way (even though there had literally been only one direction to choose from), was enough to make him forge onwards. If he ended up finding nobody, he'd turn around when he reached the end of the train. That way he'd maybe look a little less like an idiot... unless he ended up spending the whole train ride going up and down the train looking for friends that never appeared.

By the time he'd thought through all of this, Abra had passed about four more compartments without taking note of who was inside of those either, and that was when he started getting frustrated with.

Luckily, however, there was no time for his frustration to play out, for at that very moment a voice reached ~~Abey~~ Abra's ears, and he instinctively turned towards it, because of course he had recognised Jessa's voice at once.

"It's me," he replied, breaking into a smile as he did so. Except, uhhh... "I'mtryingout'Abra'." That part was blurted out - maybe even to the extent that it was difficult to know what he'd said at all - because actually he had found that it was a lot more difficult to bring up that sort of thing than he ever expected. But then, he noticed something.

(And, actually, it came as a very welcome distraction, so maybe he latched onto it a little more desperately than necessary.)

"Oh!" Abra exclaimed in a tone of pleasant surprise. "You got one too!" 'Too' meaning 'as well as Derf', of course. Now he saw Jessa with one, it made a lot of sense. "Does mean you'll be able to do more experiments without people bothering you?"

..... And, because he sort of got carried away with all that babbling...

... "Hi, Jessa! I missed you."

And then he finally stopped speaking.

12-30-2017, 03:26 PM	#21 (permalink)
Felixir Book Club Mod Alley Proprietor MO & DoM Banshee Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Posts: 50,107 Hogwarts RPG Name: Charlie Upstead Gryffindor Third Year Hogwarts RPG Name: Aurelio Kaiser Slytherin First Year Ministry RPG Name: Daxton Prince Mysteries Ministry RPG Name: Nikolai Kaiser Minister's Office Diagon Alley Employee: Ezekiel Ransom-Kruus Ollivanders x12 x12	let him liiiiiiive he worries about everything ever Lovely™ \| Captain Hurted \| Ariana's Bane \| Resident Antagonist \| Unparalleled Delight SPOILER!!: okay but same i can't get used to Abra either Quote: Originally Posted by DaniDiNardo Merlin she thought it would never end. It wasn't to say the mood in the Prefect Compartment was hostile, not by a long shot while she was there but just standing around....waiting to be briefed....forced through small talk while they waited on the others...it was enough to have the Ravenclaw crawling out of her skin. Being under-stimulated had to be just about the worst feeling when you were already trying to quell the rising tides of restlessness that greeted you at the doors of the train. Now that the meeting was over this walking thing helped a little but there was still the anxiety that on this walk something would happen and she would have to take care of it. What exactly qualified as her responsibility? And what constituted over-stepping any authority she may have been given? Was there a handbook for all this? Circe, imagine how useful something like that could've been. Jessa moved down compartment after compartment, watching friends huddled in cars together laughing and catching up. All it really did was make her wish she could go find her friends and spend the ride with them. Not all this patrolling the train stuff. Wandering aimlessly until purpose found her. It was hardly a way to spend so many hours. It was a familiar head that caught her attention as it moved by her, weaving through the light crowd of students not yet seated in a car. "Abey?" Was that Abey? You could only be so sure when watching someone's back.....but she was still pretty sure that was Abey and wanted to believe that she HAD found one of her friends on what was sure to be the longest ride to school since her first year. Half a train's length. That was about as far as Abra got before he finally realised how little attention he had been paying since he first started down the train. For a moment, he considered stopping and turning back and starting again - and actually he did slow down just a little bit during said consideration - but the thought of how ridiculous he would look, stopping in his tracks and turning around as though he'd forgotten something or made some sort of mistake (which he had done but shhh) or gone the wrong way (even though there had literally been only one direction to choose from), was enough to make him forge onwards. If he ended up finding nobody, he'd turn around when he reached the end of the train. That way he'd maybe look a little less like an idiot... unless he ended up spending the whole train ride going up and down the train looking for friends that never appeared. By the time he'd thought through all of this, Abra had passed about four more compartments without taking note of who was inside of those either, and that was when he started getting frustrated with. Luckily, however, there was no time for his frustration to play out, for at that very moment a voice reached ~~Abey~~ Abra's ears, and he instinctively turned towards it, because of course he had recognised Jessa's voice at once. "It's me," he replied, breaking into a smile as he did so. Except, uhhh... "I'mtryingout'Abra'." That part was blurted out - maybe even to the extent that it was difficult to know what he'd said at all - because actually he had found that it was a lot more difficult to bring up that sort of thing than he ever expected. But then, he noticed something. (And, actually, it came as a very welcome distraction, so maybe he latched onto it a little more desperately than necessary.) "Oh!" Abra exclaimed in a tone of pleasant surprise. "You got one too!" 'Too' meaning 'as well as Derf', of course. Now he saw Jessa with one, it made a lot of sense. "Does mean you'll be able to do more experiments without people bothering you?" ..... And, because he sort of got carried away with all that babbling... ... "Hi, Jessa! I missed you." And then he finally stopped speaking. __________________ Days of Potter 2023:___________________________ Which Bertie Botts Flavour Are You? You are Chocolate!