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Ameh 
Not one to be slow with his responses, Salariel gestured toward the red badge pinned on her. She still looked pretty young; had he not seen the badge, he'd have pegged her for a girl in his year at least.
"You gotta be older to have one of those, don't ya? You do look kinda younger, I guess... Youthful." That was the term for when people looked like kids but didn't enjoy looking as such, wasn't it? "You look like you're at most my age. 's not a bad thing... means you'll look pretty and youthful when you get old."
Miss Red Badge was a baker, huh? And she was pretty decent at it. He absently licked the squishy fruit paste in the middle of the cookie, slowly biting off the pinwheels to leave the center all on its own. If his sweet tooth ever acted up, he was sure he'd head off to her to get it satiated.
"I uhm..." He bit his lip and shifted a little. "Actually was in a wizarding school for my first year, when I was eleven, but last term my parents pulled me out and I had a tutor while they lugged me to some foreign country for their work."
He neglected to mention that they'd pulled him because of issues he'd apparently created at the old school, but that was none of Miss Red Badge's business. He wasn't gonna tell her anything that led her to believe he was anything less than a perfect little gentleman.
Salariel's pocket twitched a little again and he patted it gently. "Yeah. 's just Gemelli. He doesn't like it in my pocket as much as he likes it in his 'bed', but I wasn't gonna put him in my luggage."
Kurumi's cheeks were burning now and she felt even more awkward than she had moments earlier. "
Y-Yeah..." Kurumi nodded. Trust her, no one was more surprised than she was when her father had practically cartwheeled towards her at the airport after coming home from her study abroad that summer and presented her with her badge on a silk pillow. The man had had tears of joy in his eyes. "
E-E-Exceptions are made sometimes by the Heads of House....t-t-the current Ravenclaw female prefect was also a forth year when she got her badge."
Her eyes widened at his next comments. If her cheeks had been burning before, they were causing an inferno on her face now. Pretty? Didn't matter that he was talking in future tense at the moment. She was still flustered. "
I-I am rather young for my year I suppose. I just only just turned 14."
She listened intently as he explained his personal history a little. "
Oh...I didn't mean to bring up a sensitive subject..." There she was, stick her small nose in other people's business. Although, he didn't seem too upset about it. "
That...must have been hard..." Kurumi had never moved, not once in her life, despite the wish to do so.
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Well...if he doesn't like it in your pocket, you probably should let him out," she giggled.