SPOILER!!: Soph and Mo
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While Tobes was talking to some random adult guy, Sophie hopped a little to get a better positioning on Toby's back and peered up at the staff table. New faces, yes, of course... no Tyner next to Truebridge?... and a CULLODEN. CULLODEEEEEEENNNNNNNNNN. Sophie's eyes grew big with excitement and she waited, trying to catch the man's gaze - and when his line of sight flickered past her, she waved enthusiastically from aboard her trusty steed's back. Culloden was totally jealous of Sophie's hot ride into the hall, wasn't he? He totally was. He probably wasn't carried up to that staff table. Ha.
Soon thereafter, while Toby was still talking to the random Jory guy, Sophie had tried to zone in on the conversation happening just a little ways away in Mo's group. She could only hear bits and pieces, but by the time Tobes had ventured over to sit with the Ravenclaws, she had gathered enough to put those pieces together.
That was why Mo was so sad. No more Quidditch, no more captaining - and on his last term. Tragic. Without thinking, Sophie instinctively scooted closer to Toby on the bench and laced her fingers with his underneath the table, not daring to steal a peek at his face for when he realized what was going on, too. But with the simple gesture, she was letting him know she was there for him.
"Y'cant just cancel Quidditch. That's dumb." She was more baffled than anything. What kind of threat was targeted toward Quidditch? Did someone hold a grudge that they couldn't play well or something? She had loads of questions, but it didn't seem that Mo knew very much about it or he would've told them the full story straight away. So, instead of pressing further, Sophie pursed her lips thoughtfully. Well. At least she didn't have to worry about letting the team down this term.
"No, you'll always be our captain, Captain. We love you. But none more than me." A flash of a teasing grin was shot around at the others at the table, but then she squeezed Toby's hand and looked at him for the first time to search his eyes for a reaction on how he was taking the news. Quidditch was his life, and she knew it. Poor guy.
...And cousin Max's girlfriend was there? Whaaat?
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Cassirin That was one of the signs of growing up, right? That when bad news happened, and one did not have a Sophie climbing around in his beard, a guy should assume his Sophie had grown up. He probably didn't mind it, although it felt vaguely wrong not to have her clinging to him.
"They can, and they did. And we're going to live with it." He said it a bit gruffly, although it was followed by a smile. He followed Sophie's sightline and grunted his disapproval.
"That's my sister, there. The blond one?"
By this point Toby had squeezed into the space on at the Ravenclaw table, happy to be sat alongside Soph and across from Mo and with a whole BUNCH of prospective new Ravenclaw friends. He'd never actually sat at this table before, had only ever ventured over to the Slytherin table once to ask Derry for homework help. It was weird how sitting at a different table gave you a whole different perspective on th-
A particular string of words met Toby's ears and he whipped his head around to look at Sophie, and then at Mo, his usual smile gone from his features. Had he just heard...?
Quidditch.............. cancelled? But... why?
Toby sat, blue eyes wide and the confusion and dismay evident on his face as he attempted to make sense of this. He was vaguely aware of Sophie's hand in his . Suddenly, Tobias snapped his head up to look at the staff table, squinting to try and find the person he was looking for even though she clearly wasn't there. Ignoring the bad feeling he was now getting from all these adults hanging around and now her absence, Toby's eyes raked the staff table again. But no.
"Where's Professor Tyner?" he finally said, the urgency making itself known in his voice.
"I can't see her. Truebride never said she was leaving last term." Toby would remember THAT kind of information.