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Dallin had a quick mental image of a killer tree rampaging through Hogwarts, and frowned. Then, realizing how ridiculous he was, he laughed. "Yes, that would be extremely creepy." As if a moving tree wasn't creepy enough.
His eyes widened at the 'too' at the end of her question. He was about to ask where she was from, but she continued on her own. He nodded slowly as she talked. He'd never been to Virginia, but he had passed through it before on a road trip once. "I went there for four years." he told Alice, talking about Merlin's. "But last summer I convinced my parents to let me come here."
His eyes moved back to the tree, then quickly away again. He'd have to get closer to it sometime, when he felt braver. "I'm from Florida," he said, looking over at Alice again. He thought that since she told him where she lived, it would be nice if he told her, too. If she even cared. "I live in Tampa, right now. Big town, so I really don't know about the muggle-slash-wizard population." Since it was a big town, he would be willing to guess that there were a lot of both. "I'm muggle-born, though."
Alice nodded as she listened to Dallin, figuring it was better to keep her eyes on him rather than the tree. She knew it was silly to be having visions of the tree coming up the hill, wrapping its long and thick branches around them before carrying them away into the dark abyss of the Forbidden Forrest. Sometimes Alice felt like her imagination was too big for its own good.
"Did you like it at Merlin's, or is that why you wanted to come here?" Alice asked, hoping that she wasn't intruding into his personal life too much. She had just met him after all and she didn't want to seem like she was being nosey.
Tampa, huh?
"I've been to Florida, but never Tampa," Alice said with a little chuckle.
"I hear it's quite populated there though so I don't blame you for not knowing how many witches and wizards there." Alice's body instinctively went stiff when Dallin mentioned that he was muggle born.
"I'm a muggle born for all intents and purposes as well," Alice said with a little smile. She figured that even though her mother was a witch (a witch who wanted nothing to do with her) it was better to just say she was muggle born since her father, who was a muggle, was the one that was taking care of her.
"It's kind of crazy thinking we went through eleven years of our lives without knowing what all was out there you know? To think that people can actually do the things they can with a flick of a wooden stick, to look at it simply, and a series of words."