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Not really feeling like staying outside of the carriages any longer than she needed to, especially since she was still kind of cold and odds were it might be a little warmer inside, Kendall gave Patrick half a look as he'd actually taken a deep breath as soon as she'd arrived. As if he'd been honestly concerned about her getting lost, unless it was just that he was creeped out by the thestrals too and having her there made him feel safer. That could have been the case, but she still set Accio down on the carriage seat before turning back to her friend. "I don't think the thestrals are going to try to eat you," she said, even as he'd spoken. "Maybe you shoudl get in the carriage anyway, though. Just in case." She was glad that Orion had gotten through it all okay too. She didn't say it, but she was. Plus, she didn't think scraped knees would gain the notice of the thestrals, but either way, Patrick really should get in the carriage unless he wanted to walk to Hogwarts. It wasn't really that far, but after everything else that had happened she didn't think walking was something that sounded like fun.
She'd taken another bite of her chocolate bar before she'd really registered the last part of what he'd said, still waiting for him to get in the carriage. That got another curious look, however. "I kinda fell on Mika when the train stopped. And then crashed after the portkey, but no. Nothing bad happened to me," she replied. There hadn't been any dementors or zombies invading the train. Just the redhaired lady and then that man from the Ministry with the portkeys. The portkeys hadn't even taken her anywhere weird, so she honestly didn't know why he would have been worried. He was the one with scraped knees standing out there with the thestrals. She should be worried about him.
The wonders of why he had been worried about her more so than he had before started to run through his mind as Kendall had spoken about maybe getting in the carriage, Patrick quickly snapped from that thought and ended up getting in the carriage; quickly setting down the messenger bag full of chocolate down as he had taken a seat across from her and rest Orion's cage in his lap. "Oh I wasn't scared of the thestrals, even if I can't see them." Sure that should have automatically meant that he needed to be afraid but that wasn't the case this time, there was nothing to fear now since they were going to Hogwarts; even after the slight detour thanks to the train oddly breaking down, he still was rather curious as to what caused that to happen. "I was honestly wondering what was going to happen when the train broke down, I mean they couldn't just leave us on the train without being able to get us to Hogwarts somehow." If there hadn't been the porkeys, he figured that they would have had to walk and that would have taken a little while considering taking the train was much faster than walking but he wasn't too concerned about that now; not when he was sitting in a thestral led carriage with a lot of chocolate.
You know if you keep talking, you won't end up getting her to suspect that there's something you're not saying. Hmm, that wasn't wrong honestly since he hadn't been quite sure how to explain why it was that he'd been worried; he didn't even know what was going on nor did he want to ask anyone about it.
As soon as she had began to explain what happened when the train came to a screeching halt, he finished off the last of his licorice wands before relaxing slightly; there wasn't a need to eat much more since there was going to be a lot of food once they got to the school. "Okay then, at least nothing bad had happened. I sorta almost ended up crashing into a wall when I got up since I lost my balance from the fall, but at least I only ended up with scraped knees that'll heal on their own." He was a tough kid, that ended up worrying about his friend a lot more than he thought that he should have; but that wasn't important now. Instead he had looked out at the platform to see everyone scrambling to be where they were supposed to, at least that provided a distraction.