Sabbath grumbled as he returned his coin to his pocket for safe-keeping. He still wasn't OK with Nells getting all friendly with Romalotti in his absence. Although, deep down he knew he had no argument if he was never coming back to Nells and Hogwarts. In fact, he realised in this moment that drawing out his goodbyes was just a cause of pain and he should be strong and just let her go. But, he lingered... not wanting the final goodbye to come.

Juliana circled the tree house interior, pausing in false scrutiny of the pine cone animals and other objects of Noelle's childhood days that were sitting lined up on wall shelves. She continued her circuit, briefly looking out the window before crossing and flopping down on a bean bag on the opposite side of Sabbath. She said to Sabbath in Spanish, "What are doing with this girl, Gitano, she is not for you. She's not like us. Already, I see you suffer for her. Listen to your abuela, she's right, you should let her go, and can't you see you're hurting her too" She placed her hand on Sabbath's arm as spoke. Sabbath listened, he knew there was some truth to her words, he WAS hurting Nells, he was being selfish. It was time to go"

Sabbath stood up and crossed the treehouse floor, he gazed down the floor trap, beneath the ladder he could see José and Hope laughing together. Sabbath called down to José. "When you're done flirting, cousin. We should make a move".

José walked beneath the ladder and tilted his face up to talk to Sabbath. Hope was telling me about a party here tonight, I told her I'd talk to you about coming.. so how about it?

Sabbath sighed, Yes, Nells told me about it. Do you want to come? he said with a wistful smile, already knowing the answer by the look on José's face. But more importantly, does Hope want you hanging around annoying her all night? Sabbaths smiling eyes flicked to Hope for an answer?