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Nursing the pain that had transpired from her toes traveling all the way up to her calves, Beezus turned to Nigel and nodded. "I know that we have to pay so we can inside," She was a half-blood, of course she knew how these things worked. "But what I want to know is why!" Was frustration evident on her voice? Ugh. She was definitely going to lose her mind if she kept thinking about it. The Prefects weren't even hinted that this was going to happen. So why did the school even need Prefects if they weren't informed enough to be of help to their peers?!
But when more of her fellow Ravenclaws arrived, she bit back all the complaints she was about to mumble out. Instead, she pulled on her usual Castell smile and shrugged at Aquila. "A knut." Then she saw Presley handing over the girl one. "Pres, can I borrow one knut too?" She needed to get inside and get her trunk and whatever.
But wait, hold it Marcus Branxton. Some arm pulling happening here. The brunette tugged him back and wrung an arm around his neck. "No. You are not sleeping in the corridor." Nooope. Mama Vi had assigned her to look after her lil' bro so Beezus will do that. So, "Oh, and Presley...can you make that two knuts?" One for her and for Mo. "I'll pay you when we get inside......OKAY..actually, make that three knuts." Because Aidan was there and she just couldn't leave her Quidditch boys sleeping in the corridor.
Hearing her favorite expression, What in Merlin's beard from someone within the group, Beezus broke off her hold from Mo and faced the girl. "Natalie, right? And yeah, what in Merlin's beard indeed. " This situation called for appropriate expressions. "Do you have knuts on you? You'll be needing one to get through."
Thankfully, the others had money on them and were now making their way inside. Garrick got a slight nod. Then Mika....with her numerous questions. "Mika, dear....one question at a time? I don't think everyone can catch up considering we have so much going on." But it would really help if the girl can summon their coins so all of them can get inside at the same time.
Presley was about to step through into the common room when she heard her name. She turned to Beezus and fished out another knut.
"Sure, no problem." This turnstile thing...she was going to speak to the Headmistress about this. It was ridiculous. Okay, three knuts. Pres pulled out her last three and handed them over.
She felt a little bad, because there were tons of students out here, and she didn't have enough knuts on her to pay for all of them. Maybe she would run up to her dormitory and grab some more? Wait, shouldn't Beezus have known about this? She was a prefect.
"Beezus, how come you didn't tell us about this before we got here?" she asked. And more importantly, how come Beezus didn't have any knuts on her? Did she forget?