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Alex grinned. "I'm sure you could manage to bounce around in a castle. You're not THAT old now, are you?" She'd assumed that he was just a couple of years older than her. "I mean, if you don't mind me asking.." She continued, looking slightly flustered.
Alex frowned. "Oh. Well..I'm sorry to hear about that.I don't know much about the Ministry to comment but I seriously can't believe the Minister could be so...stupid. I would go ahead and say that your department is way more important. You guys help make our surroundings more green..which is what we need right now. What with global warming increasing day by day.." She shook her head and smiled. "Anyway..I'm glad that you're boss seems to be sensible." She grinned at his apology. "Hey, that's okay. I'm a good listener. I don't really mind."
She managed to give a small smile as Damon turned towards her. "I'm sorry. It's just..it has been a rough past few days. You know.." She swallowed and continued with a faint smile on her face, "They don't like the idea of me moving out of our house. They seem to think that I'm not old enough.." She rolled her eyes. "So, yeah. Everything is a mess." She gave a shrug. "The problem is..I don't know how to deal with any of this.."
"That's great. I'm glad you're enjoying your job." She pushed away her thoughts for the moment. She was here to have fun and not cry about her problems. "Exactly." She definitely needed a distraction. So..what do you want to do?"
Damon gave a little grin.
"You're right...I'm not that old. I'm only 26 but I feel much older than that," Damon said with a little chuckle. Guess it was just an aspect of leading such an eventful life so far. Damon looked at Alex, and for the life of him couldn't tell how old she was. He knew she was younger than him, but in all honesty Damon was terrible at guessing people's ages.
"How old are you...if you don't mind me asking," Damon asked, as nonchalantly as he could. It was always tricky business asking a woman what her age was, but Damon figured she was young enough that that whole annoyance at the question hadn't begun to set in yet.
Damon listened to Alex as she talked about the Minister of Magic and the good things about his Department and gave her a little smile.
"Well thank you for that. It's nice to know there are people out there that think it's important what we do." Damon said with a smile.
Damon's eyebrows furrowed as he heard that Alex's family was giving her a hard time for moving out.
"Well that's just ridiculous," Damon said with a gentle roll of the eye.
"They can't keep you caged up there forever. Besides, from what I can tell you have things together, so really there's no reason for you to not be trying to move out and start things for yourself." Perhaps that was the abandoned child in Damon talking, not really having a firm experience of what it meant to have parents that cared and worried about you. Perhaps he was being a little harsh in his words, but holding someone back certainly wasn't going to help that person.
"I'm not sure that there's ever a right way to deal with this. Lord knows I don't exactly go about handling my suddenly interested mother very well, but what I do know is you've got to do what's best for you, and maybe they won't support you now, but if you really focus on establishing yourself as an independent person, hopefully they'll come around."
What did they want to do now? Definitely not that bouncy castle.
"If you'd like we could go and check out some of the other attractions at the carnival. Maybe a ride that's a little less...youthful?" Damon concluded with a little chuckle.