SPOILER!!: Princess Charming???
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natekka
If there was one place you could almost guarantee to find Clara in, it was the Library.
She spent a ridiculous amount of time - in some people's misguided opinion - in there either reading, writing, reading (again), or chilling out. In fact, she'd spent so much time in there that she'd likely skim-read every single book at least once.
But today wasn't a day for reading for pleasure ...... she needed to tackle the subjects she was struggling with, i.e. Arithmancy and Ancient Runes. NEWTs were a killer, weren't they? Clara had considered asking Eden or Gabriel for help with them, but that would mean admitting that she needed help in the first place, and, well, that just wasn't an option. So instead, she made her way to the Arithmancy section of the Library and, in her arms, piled up books that appeared useful to her. There were a lot of them.
Next was Ancient Runes, the subject that baffled her because she didn't understand it. It was somewhat similar to learning a language, so that should mean that Clara was a natural and could understand and pick it up, but, alas, that was not the case.
Trying not to dwell on it too much, she headed towards the Ancient Runes section. Note that her Arithmancy books were piled so high that she could only just see over them - she could certainly not see any Tobys on the floor - so, when her foot came into contact with something fleshy, and definitely not a book or anything of that sort, she almost jumped a mile. ASDFGHJKUYTGFG. The redhead peeked around her stack of books, eyes narrowed. Was that ...... Toby ... taking a nap ..... in the library?
............. "Uh, Toby?"
Toby had never been much of a heavy sleeper. Probably because his brain and body were constantly on the go, ready for the next adventure or whatever, prepped to go DO A THING wherever and whenever, even in the middle of the night. Yeah, it definitely wasn't a case of burning off the energy during the day and sleeping like a log later. That had changed, of course, once he'd started taking the potions his healer had given him. Those things knocked him out at night, but he'd obviously not taken them mid-study session.
So when Clara WALKED INTO HIM, he was very swiftly brought back to consciousness. There was a brief moment of 'omgwhatnowhatshappeninghuh', like what usually happens when someone is suddenly woken up, but Toby soon remembered where he was and why he was there.
And realised who had woken up, and was now looking down at him. He squinted up at the form, silhouetted somewhat in the lamplight. It took a moment to realise who it was, but realise he did.
"Oh, hey Clara," Toby replied, oh so casually as if this kind of meeting was the most normal thing in the world.
"'Chu you doing?" Yep. So casual. Toby shuffled up to a sitting position and streeeeetched out his arms, before massaging his neck. Floor sleeping, man. Murder on the spine.