astronomizzle ♧ gryffinDORK | & the rest is drag ♣ #badluckDerf Snorting, Ryu used helped Emmerson settle on his knee and immediately took to bouncing it lightly. It was a good thing he was well practiced with this, soon to be even more so considering his sister had just had triplets on top of the two she already had. Though James was well grown out of this bouncing on the knee phase by now and had moved on to other endeavours - though the boy was complete rubbish when it came to kendo. "On what grounds?" he chuckled, grinning at the little girl and gives a few unscheduled rapid bounces. "I'm a glorified security guard, Cambridge," he said a bit too bitterly to be legal as he looked over the top of her head. "Always something to do and it could be worse, I could be a menial wand weigher."
But in essence, no. Not enough action during the day. Closet thing to action on this particular day had been a few muggles happening upon some falty charms, but that had been easily remedied and then it was patrols as usual.
He was grateful for that short attention span of hers in this moment, gave him a bit of a buffer to try and figure out what he COULD possibly offer her as a little something. Though good Merlin his skin felt itchy. "Athletic tape," he explained. "Uncle Ryu does this to his hands to protect them so he doesn't get any owies while punching that over there," he explained while nodding his head towards the punching bag.
And those goosebumps on his skin were even more prominent now.
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