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Mad Eye Touz 
Aspen's cheek rested against her palm with her elbow propped on the table. As usual, she was deep in thought and the rest of her fellows peers could have been a million miles away for all the attention she was paying them. Aspen made little designs with her fork in her potatoes and .... sighed every now and again.
And as though appearing just to be her exact opposite, Cornelius Rune stepped onto the scene with the same energetic skip to his step he always had, swooping out of seemingly nowhere to plop down at Aspen's side.
"Hey you," he greeted her with a brief flash of his grin, immediately grabbing a roll and taking a bite as he started filling his plate with the other hand. Preoccupied with food, it took a couple moments for him to hear one of her sighs. Mouth full of bread, he turned to look at her quizzically as his brows furrowed just slightly.
"You alright?" he questioned curiously.
It was only as Cornelius stopped chewing and relaxed into his seat that one could see the slight difference in his normal attitude. Though he still managed his general energy level, the 5th year was obviously a bit more exhausted than he normally found himself after a day of schooling. His tests were coming up - and fast. The result was an additional load of studying to his normal school work, and it was beginning to effect him a bit. But his expression, though decorated with a few more tired lines, remained interested as he turned to Aspen with a brief smile.