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Braeden couldn't help but laugh at the fact that Ellie was apologizing for apologizing, his teeth looking brighter and whiter than ever now that his face was as dark as his shoes. He watched with guilty amusement as Ellie tried to clean her face but instead ended up smudging the black coal-like stuff on her cheek.
"And now you look like a warrior about to spear someone," he snorted, unable to hold back the amusement that came from seeing his new Ravenclaw friend looking like this. True, he felt a little bad for being responsible for the mess, but... Merlin. It was just too funny.
"I'd help you, but my hands are... well, black," said Braeden, pulling out his hands from his pockets and holding them up for the girl to see the mess he had made of them. If he tried to help her, she'd just end up looking like him and no one wanted that. "Tell you what... You give me your books and on our way to whatever room you have class in, you can stop by the bathroom and clean up or something?" suggested Braeden, not really sure how big of a deal this was to her. She was a girl, so he imagined her appearance must've mattered to her. While he, on the other hand, didn't really mind walking around like he just escaped the loony bin and set fire to it. In his opinion, it made him look... adventurous! A total wizard version of Indiana Jones. Yeah. He was so cool.
Oh. Ellie then realized she smudged ash all over her face. She snorted. It was too funny. Maaaan, if anyone could've walked by right then. They would've had fun putting together that story. Ellie continued laughing.
"We always end up in the weirdest situations, you know." Going blind first and now covering their faces in ash. Great stuff right there.
Ellie nodded and looked at nothing in particular as she brainstormed.
"Sounds like a good idea. Well, I need to go to Charms right now. And the girl's bathroom is on the second floor, but Charms is on the third. So we'll have to do some back-tracking." She looked at Braeden again.
"I'll go easy on you. I'll just give you two books. I'll carry three." She teased. She gave him a wink and poke in the arm. Those were two cool kids. Walking down the halls with ash all over their face like they were ready for battle. So cool.