He nodded and listened to how enthusiastic Agatha got when they spoke about horse-riding. Then she mentioned ballet. "You sound like a proper lady," he half-teased. Merlin. Simon couldn't do either of those two things. He had never wanted to try ballet. His sister had tried to get hi to try ballet one. Nu-uh. Didn't work one bit one him. Maybe he wore a pink tutu once but he never ever was going to open up about it. "Yeah, it does seem hard. I couldn't do what ballet dancers do when they go up on their tippy toes. What's that called?" he asked.

Why did Agatha always do a hair flip? Simon looked at the girl, utterly perplexed by her strange yet warm behaviours. He didn't know where he stood with her but they were.. friends, hopefully? He hoped so.

He shook his head. "I wish he was my pet but he's Professor Botros'," he explained. He liked walking Feo around the grounds. The over-excitable Crup had made him run into some new friends of him. Plus, Feo was just plain adorable. Simon would miss him over the summer- that was a fact. She had a cat and a raven? Wow. Those were two very, very different creatures. He blinked his blue eyes. "A raven? How did you convince your parents to get you a raven?" Agatha was the first friend to have a Raven..