SPOILER!!: Wiley
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Originally Posted by
emjay
The girl need not worry about trying to play anything off because if she had been startled, Wiley hadn't noticed. He was still watching the flobberworms wriggling around and wonder what life really must be like for the little creatures. "Really?" He finally turned to look at the girl when she said she would be jealous. "But you don't need to be jealous, because there's lots of those creatures here right now!" Well, he wasn't sure if there were any crups, to be honest, but he was pretty certain about the winged horses. So essentially they were surrounded by them.
Wiley looked back at the flobberworms and jabbed a finger at the glass to see if he could get one's attention. Or if they would do something. "They're okay," he said, not really thinking they were gross. "They just don't seem to do much of anything. They need something to spice up their lives." Maybe he could think of something. But his attention was diverted again by mention of winged horse.
"Cool! I want to see some too. You ever ride one?" Wiley had, of course. But he wondered if he would be allowed here too. Or if there were special rules, which seemed most likely.
Playing off the startled jump seemed to have worked, either that or the boy was totally oblivious to the fact which she was grateful for. There was no need to completely embarrass herself during her first term at Hogwarts. She was here to make as many friends as possible.. and to learn of course but right now for the eleven-year-old friends were her priority. Unlike her poor sister who had to join a new school and juggle both making new friends and studying for her OWL’s too which sounded very stressful in Aurora’s opinion. She was a little confused by the boys statement and she scrunched up her nose trying to make sense of it.
“I meant if I was a Flobberworm I’d be jealous by how pretty all the other creatures are and I’m just stuck wiggling around on my belly” she giggled. Could Flobberworms even feel jealousy? It didn’t look like there was much space in their flabby bodies for a big brain after all.
She was thinking FAR too much about Flobberworms!
As for needing something to spice up their lives, Aurora had no idea what they could even do without legs or hands or feet or any limbs of any kind.
Thankfully the conversation moved on to the subject that she was most looking forward to seeing. Her eyes lit up with excitement with the mention of being able to ride one.
“You can ride them?” she asked with a beaming smile. She had never actually seen one let alone be given the opportunity to ride one. She was sure that her Ma wouldn’t be too impressed if she found out though, she was certain that she didn’t completely trust horses nor would she trust her daughter riding on one by herself.
“I’ve ridden on normal ponies and I even rode on a donkey once!” Which obviously wasn’t quite the same level of excitement but Aurora had enjoyed herself nonetheless.
“And there was one time we were on holiday and there were these Camels you could go on a tour with and I really wanted to go on one but my Ma said they make you feel sea sick.” It was a risk that Aurora was willing to take but her Ma still wouldn’t let her. Poor boy was going to be out chatted by the blonde who found any reason to talk.
“Oh I’m Aurora by the way!” she giggled.