 Which came first, the phoenix or the flame?
Sometimes being alert wasn't a bad idea. Sure, you could go around assuming that everything was gonna be fine, but nothing was ever fine and the world was obviously trying to hurt them. Ash was mildly surprised at the chunks falling from the ceiling, but not surprised that something was going wrong. This was Hogwarts.
As the chunks fell, Ash did her best to not get hit with anything, shielding herself with her backpack. She only got hit with a piece or too. Big enough to hurt but not injure her much. The statue though... it wasn't so lucky.
Ash, with all of her newfound self-preservation instincts, immediately left to go tell a professor or maybe Kazmi. No, she was not going to stick around and have the whole ceiling fall on her. That would really ruin her day. |