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Paul was awoken by the sound of the charm on his meeting space area. The charm that alerted him to people at the door because he needed it in order to go...well, MEET them in there. But it was night time. Paul had been asleep for an hour now. His bleary-eyed self thought that, y'know, maybe it was an accident. But it kept going, and Paul just....had to check for his sanity's sake and to make the charm stop. So he grabbed his wand and rolled out of bed, making his way to the meeting space begrudgingly.
It was dark in the room, and Paul couldn't really see. But he COULD hear the soft shuffling of the sand of SOMEONE or SOMETHING moving. His heart picked up slightly. "Who is IT?" he asked, and he lit his wand nonverbally. The cloaked figure was small...very small?
"What is the meaning of this?" he asked, suddenly quite stern.
Errrr....so, she hadn't actually planned on being caught. Emmeline NEVER planned on being caught, actually, but she usually had some sort of ready-made excuse or plan ready to go for whenever she broke a rule. But this time, she'd been soooo sure that Professor Myers slept in the castle and so that she had 0 chance of getting caught, she was realllllly unprepared.
Maybe if she just backed slooooowly towards the door, she could escape before the Herbology professor was really awake? Emmeline had just started doing that all sneakily and stuff when the professor lit his wand tip WITHOUT WORDS!!!! The second year had forgotten that people could DO that, and the surprise of the light coming on made her freeze in her tracks.
She looked between the angry professor and the door to the outside, trying to judge the distance and if she could possibly still run for it. She didn't think so, but she kept backing up towards the door anyways. It wasn't safe to be alone with an angry wizard with a wand in his hand, nope. She wasn't super scared yet, though, 'cause she had her wand in her hand too. At least she wasn't unprepared or anything if he attacked.
As she backed towards the door, Emmeline's mind whirled around for an excuse.
"Uhhh, sorry Professor. Ummm, I thought I saw a creature come in here and y'know, those other small creatures were killed, so I thought I'd follow it and stuff," she blurted out realllly quickly. That excuse was possible, right?? Though she still didn't know how Professor Myers had woken up so
quickly, either; it wasn't like she'd been making a lot of noise. She hadn't even had to unlock the door.
If this excuse didn't work, maybe she could convince the professor that he was dreaming? That worked when someone was super sleepy, right? It would be worth a shot, mhm.
"But uhhh, you're still sleeeeeping. This is all a dreeeeam," she said hopefully. She tried to make her voice sound all misty and mysterious and dream-like.
One of these was totally going to work, mhm.