Originally Posted by
feeheeheeny 
Callum nodded. He, too, knew about the thestrals pulling the carriages, and he continued to nod along to her reasoning. Yes, that made sense. The boats were bound to be slower than the thestrals, and all things considering, there were way more kids to get up to the castle in the carriages than there were first years to cross the lake in the boats, so it would probably be a more leisurely ride than he would have liked, since he knew the first years joined the feast after everyone else was already seated.
Well, that was all right. At least it would be a nice view. The adrenaline and excitement toward actually arriving over there might drive him mad along the way, but he supposed that was all part of the experience.
"That sounds about right." He really still was not sure how long it would take, but her reasoning was solid, so he had no reason to question it. It would be much easier to tell once their boat began to move, so for now, Callum simply turned his head back to smile at the girl once more. "Callum, by the way." That was his name.
The pair was joined in the next moment by another girl, one who was brimming with excitement, but she was not as over-the-top as those other classmates Callum had been trying to avoid, so she got a smile, too. "Definitely," was his response to her, and he turned his smile from the new girl to the first one, his gaze lingering, then he peeked over at the people in the other boats. Genny Tate was over there, though she looked preoccupied with another boy so he did not greet her, and it looked like most of the boats were filling up quickly.
Time to set off soon, then, and it would be so much fun, he agreed.