“You’re not. You never do.” Shy, sweet, Drew. When was he going to see that she was never bother by him joining her, no matter what her mood was? Like right now. Sure she had been lost in her own little world staring blankly out the compartment window but that didn’t mean that she didn’t want or need a friend. “I was just sitting here is all.” See, even more reason for him to sit with her and keep her company.

The distance Drew put between them was cause for confusion. He had never cared about sitting right at her si-.. Rylee glanced down at her lap where her fingers were still running through her kitten’s soft white fur. Kitten. He wasn’t fond of them. She had momentarily forgotten about that. “He won’t hurt you. If anything he’ll want you to pet him, that’s all.” Lamb wouldn’t hurt anyone, not on purpose. “Mhmm, just thinking about what this term might hold in store for us all.” Nothing bad please! They all could use a calm term where nothing scary or deadly happened. “Are you okay?”

It wasn’t until she had Lamb cradled in her arms holding him to her chest that she noticed how this little incident must have affected Drew. If the other two girls were at all afraid of her kitten dashing across the compartment she hadn’t noticed either. Drew though, she knew of his fear of creatures and well this… this was likely to be enough to keep him from getting used to and maybe even liking her kitten. Sigh. Thanks a lot chocolate frog.

Still holding the ball of white fluff that had finally settled down into her embrace, the lioness returned to her seat sitting against the window. “Sorry,” she told the group at large. “He must have thought it was a toy or something... “ Or it was in a cat’s nature to chase and catch small creatures. “The chocolate frog is safe, he didn’t get to it.” Thankfully. What she didn’t need right now was a sick kitten.