 be curious, not judgmental
He wanted them to stay. Of COURSE he wanted them to stay, and Sophie looked incredibly disappointed - but then he gave them a better order: to send a patronus if something happened. She opened her mouth to ask if there was something in particular she needed to know about sending a messenger patronus, but before she could ask, Dakest was racing off into the forest.
Welp. Okay. Certainly she'd figure it out in a moment of need.
"Good luck, professor," she called after him, then gave Tobes a nervous expression as she gripped her wand a little tighter. This whole thing was beyond unsettling, but at least Javy and Culloden weren't on their own now, and--
Footsteps, ones belonging to prefects and the headmistress. Relieved, this Ravenclaw was, and she nodded at Tobes' answer to Adi's question. "Yeah, s'just been a little while." Sophie relaxed visibly now that the others were here - now Truebridge could further back up the other professors, and she and Tobes had company, too. She was very much all about that whole "power in numbers" mantra.
Everything would be fine now, wouldn't it?
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