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"Not marbles, Mr. Branxton," he said as he partially overheard the boys' conversation. Calista had lost her marbles. Well, had her marbles stolen as it turned out thanks to those goblins. "I'm looking for turnstile change."
Pause for a moment to pick up the chess piece.
"This Knight wouldn't happen to belong to either of you, would it?"
"I hate to tell you, sir, but you're more likely to find turnstile change in a Gryffindor sofa. We keep better track of personal possessions." Plus spare change didn't make it through the door very often. Mo did squint at the chess piece before shrugging. "I think it goes on the board in the corner. They've been playing with a peppermint toad, but I think someone's been licking it between games."
It was sticky.
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Eriin Garrick listened to Mo ramble on and frowned. Not a proper date? The ballet sounded like a proper date to him. But what did he know? Sighs. "Does she know it wasn't a proper date?" he asked quietly. Poor girl. Mo Branxton should have better manners than that! And out of respect for Lotus he didn't mention HER name as having been the girl he made kissy face with during holidays. Heh. But thinking about her made him blush a little bit.
And Benjy. YOu get pointed looks right back. RIGHT BACK. "Right. I was having the fight of the century with the 'rents... who needed letters from normal people." Stink eye and sarcasm. Garrick had it. And it was all for Benjy right now.
Until the odd Professor Airey caught his attention. "Marbles was my bet, too." He gave a crooked grin and watched the man even as he spoke. Weird. O. Yep. Shaking his head he conveyed the chess piece wasn't his either...
"Professor if you need turnstile money I would gladly give you a few knuts." That was good manners. Respecting your elders and such. Because that dude was old.
"She knows," Mo said, uncertainly. He wasn't sure he could explain the confusion he'd felt the whole time, good AND bad, and if he did... it would sound so dumb. So he went with carefully thick-headed. "We had fun, though... ballet is dead boring."
So the fun was Cleo's doing and not a result of the ballet itself. He watched the cousins banter and had a momentary pang of missing West. The interesting part was realizing that he hadn't missed West in a while, which surely had to be a good sign.