SS: Wild Uncharted Waters

[Chelliephone]

Overview
The very first year of boarding school always promises uncharted waters to be explored. And thankfully for them, Gillyweed and Mandrake Beery are pretty ready to don their captains hats and grab their compasses and see what life at Hogwarts has in store for the twins. Follow the Slytherins as they embark on adventures throughout the years, both as a pair and with their friends alongside them.

Characters
Gillyweed Beery - Zoe
Mandrake Beery - Chelliephone

Scenes
Scene 1: Under the Sea Lake
The coolest thing about Hogwarts and being in Slytherin? The view into the Lake. Whenever he can, that's Drake's favorite place to hang out with Gil and play how many creatures and plants can you name.

This is a CLOSED RP exploring the school years of twins, Gillyweed and Mandrake Beery. Other characters may be added by invitation.

[Zoe]

Now that it had properly set in that her brother had been reading and that the subject matter was fictional, everything had clicked. It was even amusing how he thought that every word found within the book was factual, though perhaps such a thing shouldn't have been as such. This was Drake, after all. She loved him nevertheless. His silly antics were like a refreshing ray of sunshine.

"Just because it's a book doesn't mean everything in it is real, Drakie," Gilly responded in her typical matter-of-fact manner. "Some books are meant to be informational, and others are fictional and are meant to entertain the reader." That was the simple version, which would have to do for now. She could only imagine how he'd respond if she took a deep dive into all of the genres that were out there in the world.

"What made you want to pick this up?" she inquired, gently closing the book and holding it out for him to take back. While it wasn't something she personally was interested in, it had somehow managed to capture his attention, which, for literature, was quite a feat.

[Chelliephone]

Drake MIGHT have had the sense to be offended if her surprise had occurred to him, but even if he had thought about it…. Well, he generally acted like he was allergic to bound tomes unless the subject of it was plants so really anyone would have been surprised at the sudden out of character moment.

Plus… what did she mean it WASN’T TRUE!? If you weren’t gaining knowledge, what was the POINT?

“...... Why write something in a book that isn’t true though? That just sounds like a waste of time.” And then when people found out their written work was full of fallacies, who was going to believe their word about anything? Wait… entertainment? Drake couldn’t help it, his face screwed up in confusion as he looked at her. “What’s entertaining about books on a page? This was only fun if there was actually a moving castle!” At least, that was pretty sure why he’d been enjoying the 100 something pages he’d managed to quiet his mind enough to get through.

His fun fully spoiled, Drake sighed softly as he accepted the book back from her, deciding he wouldn’t state how useless it was to him now. “I didn’t know what else to do with myself … and the cover was pretty looking so…. Why not?”