By the time Scarlett had offered her a seat, Ariadne had already climbed over next to her and plopped down. She watched her feet dangle over the side of the treehouse for a few seconds before looking up again. She'd been sick? "What was wrong?" she asked, not even stopping to think that Scarlett might not even want to talk about it. Well, she probably wouldn't have brought it up had she not wanted to talk about it.

Just in case, she changed the topic pretty quickly. "Can you believe that we're almost out for the summer! Not trying to sound like a baby or anything, but I'm pretty excited to go back home to my mom and dad," she said. Friends were cool and all, but she was only twelve. She had PLENTY of time to grow up then get out on her own. It would have been PERFECT had her mom still been teaching here and been Ariadne's Head of House.

Ariadne paused and looked out over the grounds. "How far from here do you live?" she asked Scarlett. It was awesome that when Ariadne was old enough to go to Hogsmeade, she could just visit her mom and dad! Yeah...she was really starting to sound like a baby.