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It was pretty much impossible to sit tucked away in the corner of a classroom which was specifically set up more like a circle. And yet, somehow, Kaiser was managing to give off the air of doing exactly that. It was, quite frankly, an achievement. About the only achievement he'd managed recently, if you asked him.
Sitting quietly at the end of the back row of seats, Kaiser kept his eyes downcast, running his thumbnail over what seemed to be a years-old carving in its surface. Over and over, back and forth, he traced the name Prince that had been gouged into the wood, glancing up once when he heard the sudden scraping back of a chair. At that point, he noted the Ravenclaw prefect was behind the noise, the returned his focus to his desk again.
Until Sandhu spoke in that same old way that meant she was addressing the class as a whole, at which point he half tuned in, but kept looking down.
But then she said that, and he sighed irritably, but quietly, the sound camouflaged by the noise of the class getting to their feet. But, all the same, he stood with the rest and did those laps around the room. At walking pace, because he was zero percent in the mood for any of it, and she never explicitly specified they needed to run. By the time he dropped back into his seat, Kaiser was fully regretting having turned up at all, given he wasn't even taking the NEWT. The only reason he was showing up to all the extra classes was to keep his mind occupied by the external world, for all the good it had been doing.
Resuming his tracing of the engraving on the desk with his thumbnail, Kaiser went back to half listening, half brooding (... maybe one fifth listening, four fifths brooding). Again he glanced up at the mention of what was on the board, and gave the constellations there the once over as he reflected on Sandhu's question.
The shapes drifted before his eyes, melting into each other, twisting around themselves, and equally distorted names and facts and memories of past class discussions tumbled over each other in his mind. Kaiser blinked hard, shook his head to clear it, lowered his eyes again, and said nothing.
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