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Colley ♥ Lily felt his hand, and examined it for a moment or two, quietly.
"Mhmm." She muttered to herself, and then she let go of his hand, "Broken, I'm afraid, just a few of the fingers." Lucky thing. It wasn't the whole hand. She began the mending process with her wand, nodding her head, "Words, did you? May I ask what these words were about?"
These words made him break his fingers....?
Jake grit his teeth ever so slightly, but he couldn't feel the pain much anymore, just pure discomfort. He coould FEEL that the bones weren't... right.
"That's good," Jake nodded. Broken fingers weren't bad; as a boy who climbed as a hobby, he had experienced broken fingers before at the mending of them wasn't too bad.
Anyway, yes. Lafay.
"I asked if I could compete with her to make potions, to, you know, show her what I learnt and get a chance to ask questions about the subject, and she said that I've done nothing but disobey and disrespect her since she helped me last time. Which isn't true. At all."
And it wasn't. Only at the feast had he shown her the first sign of disrespect.
Jake grit his teeth again and hissed slightly as one of his fingers twinged uncomfortably for a moment.
"She said no, that she didn't care for my grades and expected to see me fail miserably anyway. I just felt... a little abandoned. I used to think so highly of her, then the stupid feast happened and now look. So... I got angry, and I left. And a wall suffered."
Hence the fingers.
And his voice getting more and more uneven. The whole thing upset him.
"This whole thing sucks."
Why did he come back?