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Starbreeze 
Eino knew exactly what Cornelius was going to do when he saw him. First he was going to smile, then continue smiling, and finally ask him to join him. He returned the smile, although not nearly as big and bright as the ones he had received, and sat next to the boy. What he did not expect was Cornelius' questioning of and eagerness to hear about Sierra! He placed his bag by his feet as slowly as possible in attempts to stall an answer, but once that was done he turned back to the boy. He could play dumb and pretend he didn't know what he was talking about or come up with some sudden reason as to why he had to leave, but he didn't. He wanted to talk about her. He wanted to tell the whole school about her, if he could.
"I believe that the things that were left unsaid were the ones that spoke the loudest." Eino's nervousness, covering Cornelius' mouth, thinking he was blind, all of that. "I do apologize for that, that was awfully rude, but I would like to request permission to share the blame with my hands. I hardly recall intending to do that." Eino said apologetically, looking from the boy to his hands, then back. He wasn't exactly sure what Cornelius wanted to hear or why he wanted to hear about Sierra. Eino didn't think it was quite as interesting, but rather embarrassing that she caused him to behave so strangely. Well, admittedly, Eino did act strangely on his own, but Sierra's presence only worsened that behavior.
"I wanted to talk to you about the girl, but also I have some Hogwarts questions. But first! The girl thing."
Cornelius could sense that Eino wasn't exactly used to talking about this girl, and quite possibly didn't know what to say. But Cornelius wasn't necessarily interested in prying into his private life; it just honestly interested him. He himself had had crushes, but he always asked the girl on a date after a short amount of time, he wasn't often shy about that. Seeing Eino obviously in such a state of affection for this girl and seemingly not doing much about it, was interesting to Cornelius.
His eyebrows rose at Eino's first words; the things that were left unsaid were the ones that spoke the loudest? After a moment, he seemed to understand what he was taking about, listening as the other Ravenclaw apologized for his rude behavior in the Great Hall, and he gave a brief chuckle.
"That's kind of why I wanted to ask you about it," he explained with a bit of a shrug,
"Not that I'm angry or anything," Cornelius quickly reassured him, not wanting him to think that he was upset at him for covering up his mouth and the nervousness and all. Well, the mouth covering wasn't exactly pleasant, but he understood that Eino didn't mean for it to be so intruding and simply didn't know how else to get him to stop talking.
"It's just...that's a pretty strong reaction for a girl across the room," he pointed out. His eyebrows rose up and down again jokingly.
"Why aren't you with her?" Cornelius asked, honest curiosity in his tone.