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He didn't mean to, but Airey ended up chuckling at the Hufflepuff's question. Merlin did some students worry far too much about things. Wasn't part of a student being trial and error anyway? Or, well, in his case it had been mostly error and long lectures from the Headmaster and his Head of House. Ahem.
"Nope, it needs to be iridescent purple," he said said in a rather deadpan tone, pausing for just a moment before his serious expression fadded to a genuine smile. He was joking. The girl could take a joke, yes? "Relax, Miss Potter. You are doing everything right right now. Yes, a yellow star means it will glow yellow."He thought that was rather self explanatory. "Wait another 24 hours and come back and see what it looks like then. May not be yellow the next time to see it."
Alyssa blinked. '
Surely the Professor was joking about the star being purple.' and was about to panic before she realized that the Professor was only joking. She breathed a sigh of relief. "
Okay. Thanks Professor for confirming that for me. I'll come back to check on it tomorrow." Alyssa nodded her thanks to Professor Flamsteed.
But she didn't leave immediately, instead, she stood and looked at her star glowing in the jar and as she did, she felt a sense of calm and peace fall over her. Alyssa began to softly sing to it.
"
Let there be peace on earth, Let this be the moment now.
With every breath I take, Let this be my solemn vow.
To take each moment, and live each moment, in peace eternally.
Let there be peace on earth, and let it began with me."
Alyssa then gently patted her jar and whispered, "
See you tomorrow, Yvaine. Sleep well." She packed up her things into her backpack before slinging it over her shoulder. Then she walked over to the cupboard and took off her lab coat and hung it back where she had taken it from before removing her protective goggles and returning that too.
She then walked up to the Professor and smiled her thanks. "
Thank you, Professor. I'll be back tomorrow." With one last glance at her jar, Alyssa left the Astrophysics Lab.