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His eyes widened a bit at Lisa's admission, but in a good way. "Me too!" His surprise was palatable and his posture even straightened a bit. The Flamsteeds were always the sort to have peculiar hobbies and interests, something Atlas had sort of enjoyed and at first his own interests had stemmed from just being different from Aries. He needed something to distinguish the pair of them and maybe, just maybe, people could not compare them to one another all the time. "And the dictionary!" And then his mind went another hundred kilometers a minute as he thought about an extension to this train of thought. "Do you ever...play games using the dictionary?" Or encyclopedia but the dictionary just worked a lot better.
Clearly the Gryffindor had jumped from topic to topic too many times and had lost her a little along the way, so it was his obligation to set the record straight. "Well, that's what the toy would be for. Better a toy than your hand or your feet." He had seen that time and time again with dad before dad had finally surrendered to the kitty toys mom kept teasing him with. It was weird and embarrassing seeing his parents interact like that. "So...it's a good thing that a kneazle would want to play with a toy you are offering." He couldn't help but laugh when she turned her back on the kneazle like that. Didn't she know that you couldn't beat a kneazle at their own game like that?
"Uh..." He turned to look at the kneazle, who really could have cared less that she was no longer paying it any attention. "Not really. It's licking its butt."
Games? Did he just mention you could play games with the dictionary? She shook her head to his question. “
What sort of games? Dictionary games sound fun,” she admitted, trying to think through what sort of game it was. Was it finding a random word and asking your friend to define it? Or pretending to make up a definition and finding the closest word to it? Her mind began throwing out ideas. She really wanted to know what this dictionary game consisted of!!
When he mentioned the use of a toy, it all suddenly clicked in her mind. “
Oh,” she said as it sunk in. She should really start taking notes around Atlas. He was incredibly SMART and that would make her want to be JUST AS smart… not that she was competitive
youngest child syndrome…. So…. Show the Kneazle what a toy was versus a hand or foot..? “
Toys are better than hands or feet. Probably don’t want the Kneazle to think my toes are the toys… That could be a painful chew or two.”
Aaaaand Atlas confirmed that her new strategy wasn’t working. She slumped her shoulders and hung her head.
KNEAZLES!!!! she thought and waved her fist like Mr. Turner did to his neighbour in that Muggle cartoon show her siblings had showed her a few years back.
Hmmmmmmm…. Back to the drawing board, Professor Nam Jr.
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Guess I’m trying too hard?” she said and shrugged her shoulders. She’d just try to ignore the Kneazle. “
Soooo what brings you down here? Do you have a Kneazle friend to?”