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Felixir · 07-20-2014, 05:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Emms

He heard footsteps approach him but he didn't turn around at first as he was so preoccupied with the magnificent mirror. Then he sort of asked a random question to the stranger. "What charm or spell do you think is on this mirror to give us that image?" he asked, stroking an imaginary beard on his chin as he pondered the solutions. Simon turned around when he heard something hitting something else. Huh? he thought and was surprised when he saw a boy playing with a cute black cat. He smiled a little and then his smile dropped when he saw that the boy had a very familiar face.

"Whaa.. Whaaa.. Wha-?" muttered Simon as he stood with a jaw and bright blue eyes wide open. He blinked a couple of times and rubbed his eyes as he thought perhaps the boy was a figment of his overactive imagination. He closed them but when he looked again, he saw the familiar boy. That boy looked almost exactly like him. How was this even possible?

So he was just staring there, trying to come up with a sentence when he just blurted something out. "Hi." Hi was good. It was better than Sweet Mother of Merlin or any other go-to phrase. He took a deep breath, "I'm Simon. Are you Toby?"

Yeah.... That seemed like a relatively good way to start the conversation.

Toby gave a shrug of shoulder when the boy beside him spoke up, and he continued peering into the room he saw through the mirror.

"Dunno," he said. "Probably not even an intentional thing. Maybe it's a really big two way mirror that goes to an empty place." Toby kind of liked that idea; that he might be showing up in mirror on a wall in another place entirely. "Or maybe it looks back in time to where it was first put on a wall." He spoke a little more enthusiastically now, his vivid imagination really kicking in. "Or maybe to a different dimension. Or...-"

Tobias stopped there, because he was sure he'd heard the boy mutter something. Maybe a spell of some sort? No... no, it didn't really sound like one at all. The Hufflepuff looked around just in time for the other boy to say 'hi' to him, and he automatically grinned in response.

At that moment, Bludger, who had been playing with his shoelaces, suddenly and inexplicably went for his ankle. "Ow! Bludger, what even..." Gently, very gently, Toby shook his leg in an attempt to get his sharp-toothed cat off of him. When that didn't work, he started wiggling the end of the string in Bludger's face again, which duly distracted the black cat.

The boy was talking again, so Toby looked up. "Hi Simon." Frieeeeeeeeeeeeeend? But wait, hang on... Simon knew his name. This wasn't the first time this had happened recently though, and, thinking back to that interaction, Toby suddenly realised what was happening.

He was generally very unobservant, a boy who was easily distracted by the little things and his mind often going far too fast and in absurd directions for him to make connections with the here and the now. But now Toby DID stop and think, and he remembered the name 'Simon', and what he'd heard about a boy with that name. It was only when he actually paid attention to the face of the boy in front of him that Toby realised that THIS was the kid he apparently looked just like. According to Ethan anyway.

It was difficult to tell, only having immediate access to a mirror that didn't even show their reflections, and Toby always found it hard to remember exactly what he looked like. It was no surprise that he had probably walked past this kid dozens of times and not made the connection.

All those thoughts occured to him in a split second, and soon Toby found himself nodding.

"Yeah," he said simply, really taking in the other boy's face properly and realising that yes...they really did look very similar, from what he was remembering of his own face anyway. The difference being that this other kid was a good couple of inches taller, at the very least. "And you're Ethan's friend, aren't you, Simon? The one that looks like me?" Just getting straight to the point there.

Suddenly remembering something, Toby started patting at his pockets, looking for a particular possession of his that would be quite useful right now.

07-20-2014, 05:17 PM	#34 (permalink)
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