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Hogwarts RPG Name: Amur Neverwinter Fourth Year | for Cosgrah & Javy too :) ~ Rise and Rise Again, Until Lambs become Lions ~ SPOILER!!: Soph & Tobes Quote:
Originally Posted by Felixir
Okay, yes. So. Sophie had managed to go into a lot more detail than Toby had. And he totally WOULD have said all that, but in his mind, he'd already covered all the bases. For some reason he just assumed that... that Dakest would KNOW all the things once Toby had said his very edited version. In any case, he had simply stayed quiet while Soph spoke, running along with them, feeling a renewed surge of anxiety adrenaline as a result of seeing Dakest move along so urgently. Definitely time to panic. "I think..." Toby had said, without slowing his pace, as the moved through the castle and closer to the Forbidden Forest. "I think the others went for her." He glanced across at Soph for confirmation, because he honestly didn't know, on account of how he'd simply run straight for Dakest's office. Still, he had no reason to believe they hadn't gone there, being Prefects and totally on their game.
Closer and closer they got, and Toby remained quiet for the rest of the journey there, just focused on getting back before he forgot any of the details. This section up ahead looked was it, was exactly where they'd left the professors. He could tell because of the footprints in the snow that led in there and back out, and, of course, the mysterious trails from the Creature Playpens that he was careful not to disturb more than they already had been. "We went with them. To here," he suddenly picked up his explanation as though he'd never stopped now that they neared the boundary of the Forest. "And we tried to go in, but there was a barrier, and it wouldn't let us, and it stopped us, right-"
*SMACK*
Toby had been running full pelt, forgetting to slow down in his urgency to at least do this job right. As a result, he smacked straight into the barrier again and reeled off of it, staggering slightly and blinking, dazed. He'd forgotten just how close it was. But it was fine, he was fine. "-here. Right here. The barrier." Toby blinked again and shook his head to clear it, before pointing into the trees, towards the tracks that Javy and Culloden were likely already following. "We heard screams when we were here, and they went in there, saying 'not much time', y'know?" Was he babbling? Definitely. Toby wrung his hands, thinking again of Henry and Maclaren, then looked back over his shoulder and across the grounds to see if the others had managed to get Truebridge and bring her out here, unless she was already in there. "I heard yelling when we were all the way over there." Toby nodded his head back towards the Creature Playpens they'd been mapping when the Hippogriffs had freaked out.
... Toby hoped Monty was okay. He felt terrible for leaving him, now. Quote:
Originally Posted by feeheeheeny Sophie Brown loved running, but she was a distance runner, not a sprinter, so the trek TO the castle had significantly winded her, and the trek back out there - even if they weren't going at their absolute maximum speed - was just nearly taking its toll on her, too. She was out of breath by the time they neared the boundary line to the forest, and any time she spoke, her words came out a bit like she was choking. Like now.
"Yeah," she responded, nodding at Tobes' statement to affirm it. "I confirmed with them that they were gonna go get her when I ran off after Tobes. So she's... either already in there, or she's coming."
As they neared the forest, she slowed her pace, and was a bit alarmed when Tobes did not do so - did he forget that there was a barrier that was keeping them ou--
...Yes. Yes, it seems he did, and Sophie gave him a sympathetic look as he recovered from the impact. She looked deep into the forest, then, trying to see something... or anything... but she couldn't see anything. To follow up with what Tobes said, she looked up at Dakest with worried eyes and asked, "What can we do?" Because he was undoubtedly about to charge in there, and she needed orders - needed SOMETHING to do. She couldn't just stand there and watch him go in and have no purpose.
She wanted to help. So the Headmistress had been informed. Or at least, that was the general idea. Needless to say, there wasn't much time to debate the matter. Students had gone for her. That was that. She'd be along shortly, he was sure. If not, a patronus would be going back to the castle, likely with one of the students in tow.
As it was, all his attention and thought was on getting where they needed to go, and figuring out what to do once there. Something he couldn't really plan without first finding Culloden and Thompson.
He slowed in time to catch Fuller-Thompson off the rebound of the boundary line, putting one hand on his shoulder to steady the kid. "You two, can stay here and keep your eyes and ears peeled."
Moving past them both, he spared a quick glance at the tracks before looking back at the kids. "You see or hear anything and you send a partonus in to us, or to another Professor." They did remember how to do that, right? "Or run if you must. But do not engage. Got it?"
And because he had been told more than once that time was precious, Sabel didn't wait for a response. It was a bit of a rhetorical question. He started quickly but carefully along the line of tracks, careful to keep to the side so as not to disturb them. It was only when he was so far within the forest that a backward glance revealed nothing but the tall, ominous trees, that he decided perhaps saying something would help. "Cosgrach? Jav--" Well there they were. And looking none-right-too happy.
There was the faintest thought that this was some sort of strange set-up. Something he should be more wary of than he was, but the concern over the student's concern had that particular line of thought settled to a faint whisper at the back of his mind. He slowed his pace as he neared the Professors. "Brown and Fuller-Thompson said there was an emergency...."
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