elephant-astic•wanderlust•stay in the ninedaaays the original Taco Belle•look at the flowers✿ Well, that was a relief.
Vita smiled a bit sheepishly when the old woman burst into laughter. She'd never been one to make jokes, but she was happy to pretend she was trying to be funny all along if it pleased Dopple. Better than the alternative. Imagine she'd said that to Moaning Myrtle? ...Yikes.
The fur being a fashion statement was a bit of a stretch and honestly, now that she'd slipped once, the sixteen year old could not stop thinking of words without associating them with ghosts. For example, she could picture Dopple asking the head girl if she'd found her coat at a boo-tique and it made her want to cringe.
How could she be sensitive to the professor's....condition when all she could do was fixate on it?
The struggle was real.
Thinking REALLY hard before speaking out loud, she finally offered, "I always wanted blue eyes. I think they're quite b-beautiful." Not bootiful. Never that.
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