Evolette turned as he directed her towards the stairs, tucking a few loose curls behind her ear, her blue eyes found him again, "So, tell me, how is everything in Nicholai land? Besides the obvious." she added almost under her breath.

Tia smiled at Penny and said "Well for sure mine is interesting cause i wasn't well at the beginning of term so i missed the train and had to make my own way up to school"

Camira walked over to the entrance hall and waited. This is where they were all supposed to be meeting up, right? She hoped that's what her owl had said. She kind of didn't remember now. Oh well. She would see in a few minutes.

Anna headed down from the Common Room to the ground floor, clutching in her hand the clue Astrid had given her. She hoped Astrid would be able to make it, as well, but the young Gryffindor wasn't too sure if her busy schedule would allow her to meet up with the rest of the treasure hunt gang. Anna rounded the corner and stepped into the entrance hall, looking around for any other group members. Maybe she was the first to arrive...oh, no. Wait. There's Camira. Anna headed over to the Slytherin girl. "Hey, Camira," Anna greeted. "It's just us so far, I guess."

Camira looked up at a voice greeting her. It was Anna. Good, maybe that meant the rest of the group would be along soon. She didn't have all day. "Yep, it looks that way. I hope everyone found their clues. Though I think it's quite obvious what the clue is. At least the one that Tia found." Where was the girl, by the way?

Nancy was slowly walking up from the Dungeons a smile spread across her face. Finally the weird face paint from her last History of Magic-lesson was gone and she had changed as well. Ew. The whole digging thing had just been sooo useless, but apart from that it had also been totally gross. Fossils? They had been supposed to be digging for fossils? Not even anything interesting like the treasure or something. Sigh.

Almost bumping into someone Nancy made a weird movement that sort of looked like it belonged into some dance-performance, she managed to avoid to actually run into the someone. Looking up Nancy realized that the certain someone was "Camira!" Nancy's smile widened at the sight of the older Slytherin.

Will entered the entrance hall. Ah, this must be a treasure thing. he thought, a bit relieved. He and Camira had never quite finished their conversation about the fact that she -- unless he misinterpreted her - maybe had feelings for him, and so he was a little nervous that this meeting was about that. In fact, to ensure that it wasn't a one on one meeting, Will had even asked little Seymour to join then in entrance hall, too. He knew it probably wasn't the most manly thing to do, but talk about things like feelings made him all twitchy. Especially around pretty girls. Pretty and DANGEROUS girls with dark arts pasts like Camira? Yipes. But apparently he'd lucked out and wouldn't have to talk about squishy mushy feeling stuff. Treasure, that was more his speed.

"Hullo, Camira... everyone... what's going on?" he asked, eyebrow raised in what he hoped was a cool yet nonchalant pose.

Oh sure. He came to talk about treasure, but when she had tried to talk to him that one time, he'd disappeared. She sighed, remembering how she'd waited for a half an hour. Stupid. "Mr. Jones", she said, giving him a curt nod. "We're waiting for the other house reps to arrive, after which I believe we'll be sharing our clues", she said evenly, before turning to Nancy.

"Hey! You should definitely stick around, by the way. This is about the treasure, and since you helped search for it, you know..." And, that way she'd have a Slythie to talk to that wasn't Will. Since she apparently repulsed him so much that he had to run away from her.

"Dang." Penny said. If she would have missed the train she would not have been here.

Uhoh. 'Mister Jones.' He was in trooooouble.

He walked over to Camira and spoke to her in a low tone. "Thank you for inviting me along to this... and... er.. I'm sorry. About the other day. I was a jerk." There. Pop always said that saying 'I'm Sorry and I was a Jerk' was just one of those things that a Man's Gotta Do whenever a woman was mad at him. Even if you haven't the faintest clue what she's mad about, always immediately admit culpability and apologize, and you can head off a lot of hassle, that was the wisdom Officer Jones had passed on to his only son, and he took it to heart.

"Forgive me?" he said, giving her his very best Cruppy Dog eyes.

She sighed and pretended to look at her nails. Should she forgive him? What he did was a big deal, to her anyways. Finally, she looked up at him. "No", she said simply. She felt guilty. She'd never been mean to Will before, but she couldn't keep doing this. Letting guys get away with whatever they wanted because she was afraid to lose their company. "You're here because I thought it would be unfair not to notify you, seeing as you were the original discoverer, that is it."

Looking back and forth between the guy who had just arrived and Camira Nancy had to suppress a sigh. She so sucked at keeping track of all of Camira's boy problems, she should probably write them down somewhere...talking about boy problems, what had happened to Dominic? Meh, okay, she needed to wait for that question to be answered since this obviously definitely wasn't the time to ask Camira about it. Which meant, wait.

Beaming at Camira Nancy said, "Great! So, whom are we waiting for?" Yes, yes, yes! She was able to be of use again! Her feet felt like she couldn't suppress the bouncing for too long anymore. Glancing around the entrance hall in anticipation Nancy waited for Camira's answer.

Oh. Nancy was talking to her. "Uh, well, probably the other 2/3 of the Gryffindor trio", she said, giving Anna a smirk, "and Kaika and Dominic, and Cela and Barry, I believe. And Tia, since she has the map." She was pretty sure that was everyone. If not, then the other people coming were obviously not important, because Camira didn't remember them.

"Oh." Will said, looking rather crushed. Which is how he felt. He really liked Camira, and now apparently she hated him. At least she hadn't cursed him, that he knew of. He looked down at the ground and shuffled his feet, uncomfortable. " M'kay, yeah. I am sorry though. Really." He couldn't look at her. Why were girls so complicated with all their feelings and stuff, and smelling all pretty and soft and wanting to know if you liked them or liiiiked-them liked them and all, and wanting to actually oh-Merlin-no TALK about it? It made his stomach all flip-floppy and he felt torn and confused.

Better to focus on treasure. He slunk away from Camira and leaned on a wall to listen to what the group was saying, trying to ignore the fact that his heart felt like it had been dropped into the bottom of his guts.

Seymour bounced into the entrance hall and made a beeline for Will, grinning ear to ear. This is when the action would start happening. If clues had been found, they could properly start their quest--battling off dragons and demons and whatnot. Woot.

"Sire!" he squeaked, skidding to a halt and beginning to bounce on the spot. "Sire, what's going on? Have we found clues? Are we getting ready to start trying to find the treasure? Are we plotting a way to destroy the giant fanged flying puffskein you fought at the beginning of term that might be guarding the treasure?" he asked, eyes huge. He took a breath and actually looked at his surroundings for a moment, his grin fading slightly. "What's wrong, sire? You look... disheartened. Upset." Had that horrible Anna person taken the treasure already? Were they... too late?

Oh God. He looked like a kid who's puppy had just been killed in front of him. She bit her lip to keep from saying anything, mainly forgiving him, becauseshe really wanted to.

She watched him walk away from her, and it was horrible. She felt like...ugh, she couldn't even describe it. "When is everyone coming? I have things to do", she said loudly, wanting nothing more than to leave right now. And she'd have to put up with seeing Dominic. This was going to be a hell of a day.

She turned and took another look at Will and sighed. She couldn't believe she was going to do this. She walked over to him, face expressionless. "Look, I know you're sorry. I...it's fine, ok. Just...it was rude, letting me wait for you to come back. I could have been doing homework or something. You should have just told me you didn't like me and that would have been that. It wouldn't have been a big deal." Okay, she was lying. Of course it would have been a big deal. Whatever, he didn't need to know that.

And that was when she realized Seymour was there. Great. Just great. Could she disappear now?

"I... I'm fine." he said, trying his best to not look like someone just snapped his wand. "I'm not sure what all is going on around here yet, though-- I barely got here mys--"

He hung his head. Ok, she was right that it was rude. And he needed her on his side, especially in this treasure hunt... He glanced up, giving her his most pathetically endearing expression. "I know. You're right." Ah, every woman's favorite phrase. "Except... I do like you. I just-- er... could we talk about this later, privately?" his ears were bright red and his cheeks flushed with embarrassment. "It's kind of awkward... in front of everyone...."

Nodding as Camira listed the people that were still expected to come Nancy went them through again in her head, trying to put faces to the names. Kaika was the one from the Whomping Willow, right? The one Camira was talking to about Dominic. The Gryffies were obvious, who didn't know them? But who were Bar-

The was the moment some cute little Slytherin boy bounced up to them all hyper about the upcoming treasure hunt. Grinning at the boy Nancy said, "Hey!" He was weird somehow, though. Cute but weird. Who was he calling "sire"? And above all, why was he doing that? Huh?

Tia smiled and said "Hey not that i mind i loved the journey i had it was so much fun"

Seymour looked from Camira to Will and back, blinking slightly. What exactly was going on? Were they talking about the treasure, or something else? His grin faded completely and turned into a very worried expression. "Sire? Forgive me, sire, but you don't look... fine. Is there anything I can do to help?"

He looked over his shoulder and turned around quickly, bowing deeply to whoever that was-- he didn't recognize her. Giving a limp wave as he straightened, he turned back to Will, still ridiculously concerned.

Penny smile. "That is all that counts then, huh." she said.

Tia smiled and said "Yeah it is Penny"

Will shook his head at Seymour. "No, nothing you can do. But thanks." he smiled at the boy and shrugged a little as if to say Camira's the only one who can help here...

"Lets see, I met up with my best friend from my last schol on the train. I had not seen him in almost 2 years." Penny told Tia.

Tia smiled and said "That must have been pretty good for you Penny"