"Maybe you should have had the foresight to tell me where it was too," Benjy said, speaking generally about both this seat and on the train. Because how was he meant to find her if she insisted on sitting in the shadows? GAH. It was only due to luck he'd overheard her, really. And his promise to Garrick that had made him actually look properly. But she didn't have to know that.

He turned from his cousin, at the moment, and gave the other member of their carriage a pleasant smile. "Benjamin." Just because Kalla called him a troll, didn't mean he was ugly and unpleasant. He could do niceties as and when he chose. "Fifth year. Not a transfer." Or home schooled. He'd been here the whole time. Yup.

And then he stared back at Kalla. Hang on. Her therapist had said she should come? He wouldn't comment on it right now, but that wasn't what she'd told him over the summer. He'd just hang on to that little snippet to make something of later. If that was the truth, then she couldn't blame ALL of this on HIM any more.