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Droo in the Atrium 
... "My my Miss Greingoth," she said looking at the boy and girl. Walk closer? "didn't we land ourselves a hottie..." She winked at her.
Sierra had
just started the walk toward the fountain when the sound of Miss Latorta's voice reached her ears.
"Excuse me?" she asked, not understanding at first. A hottie? Yes, she knew what a
hottie was, but why...
Wait. What?! No. No, no, no, no, no. Was she implying that Eino was her
boyfriend. Though she didn't admit as much, Sierra actually hadn't had her first boyfriend yet. She was
just getting to the point where she thought she could see boys as more than just friends, but this was just too much at once.
"I did not land myself a hottie," she declared.
"I don't...have a...boyfriend." She held a blank face, trying not to show that the comment had embarrassed her. At the same time, though, she walked quickly toward the fountain, trying to get away from Miss Latorta before anything else could be said.
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Starbreeze Eino followed Sierra to the fountain as the two conversed. He surely hoped he would have the chance to ask this department head person! He pulled out his notebook once again and made himself a little note to ask him in regards to centaurs and the other beings. The fountain was glorious! It was made of shiny gold and jets of water were shooting from the wizard's and witch's wands as though they were casting the Water-Producing Charm. It looked much bigger up close than it did in the photographs on the Daily Prophet. Plus, Eino could really see the details on the house-elf's face especially, because he was the shortest.
"How magnificent!" Eino exclaimed as he leaned over the edge for a closer look. The water was clear and there were no coins at the bottom of it like most of the fountains he had seen. He was acting like a little kid. He had the urge to sprinkle some water on Sierra like his father always did to his mom, but she probably wouldn't like that as his mom didn't. "Do you know who built it?" He asked her, with his eyes still fixed on the figures.
As she headed toward Eino, Sierra slowed her pace considerably. He'd just been called 'her hottie', for Merlin's sake. He hadn't heard the woman, had he?! If he had, he hadn't said anything. She eyed him just in case, but he seemed so fixated on the fountain that she doubted he heard the woman's words. Good. The last thing she needed was for her father to get word that his daughter and her boyfriend had arrived in the Atrium...
Feeling a little more confident with approaching Eino, Sierra shrugged in response to his question.
"Mmm, nah. I guess it was just someone here at the Ministry of Magic. Whoever was in charge a long time ago," she said.
"I know it was here before both my mother and my father started working here." She came to a stop at Eino's side, but she didn't dare look up at him. No sense in giving Latorta over there another reason to make a ridiculous comment.