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demented_death_eater 
Vindictus rolled over on the grass and stared up at the sky. "Did you lose the ball?" he asked and then sat up. Um, why are all these people standing around?
Leaping toadstools? Check that. Half smashed leaping toadstools.
"Aww man, you smushed 'em! Now where's my cane?"
The sky was an awful pretty shade of blue, Emrys thought, staring at it as Vindictus asked him about some ball. He was not an athlete, so why would he have a
ball.
He sorta half-leaned up on his elbow, getting his breath back. He couldn't see, but he just knew that the back of his robe was covered in mashed up mushroom. He hoped the house elves would be able to get the stain - and the smell - out.
SPOILER!!: people we don't knoooow. (Arya and Lewis)
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grangerfan8 Miss Puff prefect was so focused on the odd scene infront of her, that she wasn't even paying close attention to the kid coming up behind her.
"Ohh." She stumbled forward a step, glancing back at the bumper. Hm. He looked familiar. Arya totally knew he was in her house, but he looked a bit more familiar than most other Puffs she'd come across at random.
... Was he on their quidditch team?
"Don't worry about it." It wasn't as if he knocked her down or anything. The prefect smiled at him, shifting the bag on her shoulder, then skipped the whole introduction thing to nod over at the group all... er... about.
"What do you think is up with them?" "Hey, Kurumi." She wiggled a finger at the girl and wondered why she was acting so strange, but then realized all of them were acting strange. Right. At least she now knew the kid's name was Lewis. That was filed away to memory and she tried to figure if the professor needed help or not.
Or the other kid who's name or face she didn't know.
Oh. More bumping?
Only not Lewis cause he
was taller than her heel. By a good deal. The prefect's gaze drifted down and she squinted at the glowing.. thing at her heel.
"What..." Crouching, she was careful in picking up the glowing object, turning it in her hand slowly to appraise it. Hm.
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Lislchen Lewis held his breath, waiting for the Prefect to reply. Arya, was it? But she didn't seem to be too annoyed with him bumping into her. Plus she was a Hufflepuff too and they were all nice, so. There. Nothing to worry about.
He still breathed a sigh of relief when she actually TOLD him not to worry. "Good. I'm sorry." Couldn't hurt to apologize again, right? "I...don't know?" How would he? He'd just got here too, after all. Smiling back at her nonetheless, he shifted his attention to the group of people she was referring to and...gasped. He hadn't noticed how the one person he was trying to avoid was actually part of that group.
And now she'd seen them too. "H-hi." Lewis stammered a reply, watching her with his head slightly cocked to the side. She was still acting weird. And yes more weird than he'd expected. Also a very much different kind of weird than he'd expected.
This was still way too confusing for him to think about so instead he focused on the rest of the group...who were acting just as strange, even more so probably. Turning his head a little to give Arya a confused look just in time he watched her crouch down to look at something lying in the grass. He waited for to finish her sentence but she never did. "What...?" Lewis tried to urge her own, a little curious himself about what she'd found.
Plus it was way more easier to focus on this than...other stuff.
Emrys squinted at the two people he didn't know, feeling rather mortified that he was lying in the remains of a toadstool patch. When he saw the orb glow in the girl's hand, however, his eyes lit up. Yes. That's what he'd been looking for! He hadn't lost it!
But he kept his mouth shut.
SPOILER!!: and Kuruuuuuuumi
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sweetpinkpixie Kurumi stepped to the side when Professor Vindictus had rolled over onto his back, taking a moment to retrieve his cane. "R-Right here, professor," she said, offering him his cane.
This was getting weird...really weird...weird even for Professor Vindictus.
And now that Professor Vinditcus was taken care of, hopefully, Kurumi returned her attention to Emrys who was struggling to get up off the ground. If Care of Magical Creatures had been a war zone, then this right now was a bloody circus.
"Here, let me help," she said, offering her hand to him so he could hopefully pull himself up and out of all the smushed jumping toadstools.
Professor Bentley wasn't around to see this, right?
Kurumi really couldn't answer Emrys' question, until her attention was turned to Arya again and she saw that her fellow prefect was holding the orb. "It's right over there," she said to the two Ravenclaws. "The...orb." Not ball, professor. They weren't going to play Quidditch or anything with it.
Besides...wasn't he supposed to lock it up in his display cabinet in his office? How had then come to be in the pathways instead of in there?
Her eyes were back looking at Arya now, well, more like looking past her...
For whatever reason, Kurumi felt a strong tug in her chest when her eyes fell on Lewis, but something was blocking her understanding as to why. She studied him for a moment, noticing the look of confusion that had come over his face and she took several steps forward...towards the orb, of course.
The orb was the reason they were out here in the first place.
"Is it, alright?" she asked Arya as the Hufflepuff studied it in her hands. Kurumi came to a stop beside Lewis, glanced at him just for a brief moment where there was a flicker of something in her eyes, and then all attention was back on the orb as it continued to glow.
Emrys looked up, cheeks blazing red as he took her extended hand and allowed her to help him up. He refused to meet her eyes, embarrassed by the spectacular fail he had demonstrated.
"Is it... bad?" he whispered, turning his back to her to see if he had toadstool-carnage stuck to him still.
But he was drawn back to the sight of the orb, wondering if he should ask for it back. He stepped forward, wondering what he could say. The orb looked so.. pretty.
"Um.. um, uh.." he stammered, trying to address the girl.
"Th-th-that is pr-pr-pr-professor Vindictus' orb." He swallowed hard, his eyes fixed on the smudge on the tip of his shoe, curly hair falling in his eyes.
"H-he dr-dropped it." He stuck out his hand, but didn't look, hoping she'd just hand it over.