Originally Posted by Felixir

Toby watched Dakest, and he couldn't help but feel immediately relieved by the chuckle, even if it did seem misplaced. He didn't understand quite why he was laughing, but laughter was GOOD. It meant happy, after all. He focused on that as he listened.

Though... listening wasn't really all that enlightening. Toby just sort of... blinked at the professor as he spoke, trying to understand how... any of that made any sense. There was a long few moments of blink-y silence before he spoke. "That's... super confusing, Professor. Really actually super confusing." But he smiled a little all the same. In any case, fortunately, he had a lot experience trying to riddle out the confusing ways of some other people he knew. Unfortunately, he'd... never actually managed it.

Toby wasn't sure he believed that any student would have walked out of the classroom in that scenario. 'Cause that was dead impolite and rude and everything. Except then he remembered how he'd walked out of class before, even if it was only a few minutes towards the end, and so... decided to stay quiet on that one. Ahem. Fiddling absentmindedly with the flower he held, he simply nodded.

That Dakest was good at keeping secrets... was a very reassuring thing to hear. Toby was very private, and didn't share a whole lot of information so easily, but he trusted Dakest already (perhaps a little TOO easily, but hey, nothing new there). And though he liked to believe that everyone could be trusted with a secret, he'd come to learn that that wasn't always true. Toby nodded again, and began distractedly biting at the nails of his left hand (not that there was much left to bite at anymore), thinking hard, and ignoring the bitter plant taste that was a result of handling so many flowers.

"I will," he said finally, and he meant it too, though the words ended up sounding a lot less certain than he'd intended them to. "Soon... eventually, probably, I mean... yeah. Although..." Toby finally set the flower down, very gently, and picked up his wand from where he'd dropped it into the grass at one point, spinning it deftly between his fingers again before putting it back in its holster. "It's... you'll probably think it's dead stupid, really. Big deal over nothing. And it won't make any sense; a lot of the things I say never really do." He still wanted to talk to him, though. Just... he wasn't sure he'd have the emotional energy to go through it all today. "But... so, like... I can talk to you again, then? About this stuff?" Toby asked, tentatively.