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Simon simply shrugged as Selina commented on his paying for her. "You're welcome," he said before relenting to her counter offer of her covering lunch as return payment. "I guess I can agree to that," the former gryffindor replied figuring he probably wasn't going to be to fight her on that subject.
Following her inside the maze once they were allowed past, he walked through the passageway doing his best to pay attention to his surroundings. All was going fine through the quiet, unoffending green structure for a while. However when he turned at Selina's shriek, Simon found himself nearly face to face with a green wall that had grown up separating the two friends in their tracks.
So much for paying attention.
Simon turned back around just in time for a dummy to jump up only a few feet in front of him and the path he would take. He raised his wand in response and aimed a spell, it hitting the dummy just as it disappeared letting the spell pass through so one couldn't be certain if it had actually hit or not. Whatever the answer, the boy hadn't hit anything that hit back so he took a deep breath and continued on.
Selina was ready now for anything that would come her way since her first encounter with the dummy had pretty much summed up her purpose. With a wand at the ready she was sure that she could take on Simon Bennett! She turned around to gloat that she could handle this when she saw that Simon was not there. It was like he had just vanished. Suddenly she was very scared- she was alone... in a maze... with no idea what was coming next.
Timidly she squeaked out, "Simon?" The next time she said his name she yelled out loudly, "Simon! Simon are you alright?" Now she was panicking. This was bad... no this was awful.
Just as she was about to yell again another dummy appeared and she yelled loudly. Although her startled manor did result in her wand casting a stream of light and vanishing the dummy. "Merlin," she muttered under her breath.