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Cassirin 
Oh, whooooa. The Great Hall looked totally different, what with the trees being decorated. It should look more full than normal, but for some reason, it seemed a bit bare. Vivi glanced around with furrowed brow before it came to her quite suddenly - the tables were gone. People were to eat on the floor?
Something slightly off about that.
"Are we having a slumber party in here?" She rocked on her heels and looked at the different trees being decorated. Could she help?
Hearing a voice that had actually become quite familiar to her, Sierra turned to see Vivi Branxton had joined them. Hmm. Vivi didn't seem to be the kind that would volunteer her time to help decorate Christmas trees, but then again, neither did Sierra.
"We're decorating the Great Hall for Christmas," she said, gesturing toward the trees.
"...while watching the house tables disappear." Yeah. Had anybody figured that one out yet?
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MeredithRodneyMckay Sierra's quietish comment caught Isabelle's attention, and she glanced at the girl to spot her being glanced at in return. Oh, she'd heard that? "I'm sure there is a member of staff who knows, Miss Greingoth. It was most likely a last minute decision to make more room." Or Peeves. She wouldn't put it past him.
"Ahh," she said, although she wasn't quite sure of that answer. For one, it happened on the spot. This caused her to look around, half expecting to find some professor standing nearby with a wand still pointed to where the house tables had been. They'd been there just a minute ago...
Then there was the fact that every staff member standing around seemed clueless about what had happened.
"Then why'd they disappear so suddenly?" she asked.
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sweetpinkpixie Opening up the next box of ornaments Kurumi bit down hard on her lip when Sierra spoke again. "S-Sorry...I didn't mean...you know," she replied softly as she removed a candy cane colored orb from the box. Kurumi wasn't really sure what the point of sharing that had been really, maybe it was mostly for her to talk about her own feelings regarding the loss of her mother. There were a lot of other things she could share, ways of coping with it or to make memories last...but Sierra was still clinging on to hope. Kurumi couldn't take that away from her. Kurumi had never had that. The outcome had been decided from the moment the doctors had discovered the illness.
What came next...surprised her. Kurumi had surprised herself in making something for Sierra, so she was taken aback a bit right now - especially with Sierra's words. A part of Kurumi was almost upset about this, in a bad way. So, seeing how Kurumi had suffered and cried and slowly watched her mother die had earned her respect from Sierra? That seemed like a cruel sort of joke...only something in the Slytherin's tone softened Kurumi's train of thought. "Thank you...Sierra," Kurumi said as she accepted the bookmark from her. "Kind of...ironic in a way...with you calling me Dictionary Eater and all," she managed to laugh, hoping to somewhat soften the mood slightly since the Gryffindor was feeling rather awkward at the moment.
"I know," Sierra was quick to say. She didn't want Kurumi to finish that thought. Sierra was perfectly fine ignoring reality and going by the belief that nothing
too bad would happen. She was quiet for a few seconds as she reached into a box and took out an ornament. She used her wand to levitate it to a taller branch and hang it there.
Sierra gave a nervous laugh at the Dictionary Eater comment.
"Oh, no. I still think you eat dictionaries, Kurumi," she said, although she had a half-playful look on her face.
"You just know way too much about too many different things." She returned to digging through the box of ornaments and chose one she thought would look nice.
"...but we're cool. I don't know how things will be in the future for us, but yeah, we're cool." Text Cut: Mell
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Mell It seemed the idea of sharing things was quite appealing to the Slytherin Prefect. "Yes. But bear in mind that sharing everything has both good and bad points. But if you can handle it then it is a pretty good life." Seb thought so anyway, although he was pretty sure that his daughter was happy that she was out of there.
"I guess so," Sierra said, and then she decided that it'd probably be best not to take up anymore of the groundskeeper's time. With Peeves running wild and so many students coming up, she should be moving on.
"Well, let me know if you need anything..." She moved to the next tree over and began rummaging through a different box of ornaments.
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The1HBIC Someone sure was a bit defensive wasn't he."Oh yes, so convenient... for everyone to eat on the floor." Yeah, lets see just how convenient he thought it was when it came time for him to eat.
And now Sebastian was going to claim they didn't do anything with the tables. Did these guys really expect her to believe that?
More staff and students were filling that Great Hall and despite there being no tables it appeared as if everyone was having a good time. That is until Peeves decided to make his presence known... again.
Okay, so maybe Cece had jumped to conclusions about the tables. "Right, you go take care of that ghost. I'm sure he'll listen to you."
"Hello, Healer Tillstorm," she said, noticing that the Healer was at the tree Sierra had just moved to.
"You want to help me decorate this one?" She noticed how the Healer kept glancing toward the house tables, which reminded Sierra that nobody seemed to know what was going on.
"What's up with that anyway?" she asked.
"Professor Magnus seems to think that at least somebody on staff knows what happened."