SPOILER!!: Hanna, Thereos
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Jessiqua Chloe... well, Chloe just didn't seem very Chloe. Hanna wasn't stupid, this year had been very upsetting. And evacuating when they still had classmates left behind was not a good feeling at all. Hanna went over to Chloe and placed a hand gently on her shoulder. "Are you okay?" she asked quietly. Was there anything she could do?
Hanna absolutely had made sure the first years had been taken care of, and hoped they were together in some sort of grouping. She spotted Avalon, and turned to the first year. "It won't be long now and we will all be out. And hopefully you'll be able to send a letter home." No doubt all of their parents were worried sick.
"Hi Drewett," Hanna greeted her fellow fifth year classmate. "Do you know what the difference between alpacas and llamas are?" she asked. She knew, but did he!? Hanna was anxious, sure, but she was full of anticipation on seeing her family. And being high on the anxiety ladder, Hanna could also sense others similarly minded. Drewett, no mistake, was hanging on possibly by a nanometre of a nail. She wanted to tell him it would all be okay - of course she did. But truly? She didn't know if it would be. And sometimes a nervous person didn't need to be given false promises. Sometimes distraction was what helped. And that was what she was trying to do.
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Thereos Having no personal affects of his own to concern himself with (everything he cared about being unreachable presently), the centaur had clip clopped his way to the corridor while inspecting his route along the way for any stranglers. His limp had mostly healed now, but it would take a centaur's touch to finish the job properly.
Thereos had never been beyond the lines of the Hogwarts grounds and the thought of stepping outside of those for the first time in his long centaur life was almost as unsettling as what he had encountered in the mist. He wondered, longingly, where the rest of his colony had found sanctuary. Surely not among these shops of this Hogsmeade Village. He would ask the stars their whereabouts, assuming it true that he would be seeing them this evening.
Opting to take up the rear (he had no stick to flourish about that would be of much aid in the group ahead), Thereos remained by the entrance to the passageway and beckoned the Hogwarts younglings along with his trunk-like arms.
"...an old rat is a brave rat," he nodded encouragingly as another group walked passed him.
As more and more students started to come she still hadn't seen the ones she was looking for. Where was Fin and where was Gunnar? She didn't even know if Fin wanted to see her at this point, but she had to make sure he was safe. She hated the thought of anyone in danger like Tad was. She knew others were losing hope that the missing was still alive, but she couldn't, she just couldn't think they weren't, so she continued to hold onto hope.
Hearing Hanna she looked over at the prefect,
"I..." honestly could any of them really be okay? She wasn't even sure how to answer that so her eyes just wandered back towards the place that more students were gathering.
"I can't find Gunnar, I don't want to leave without him." Her brother would do the same and she knew he would, so she wasn't going to be leaving without him.
Hearing one of the professors say a name that made her head turn she looked again at Hanna,
"I'll be okay though, promise" and with that she headed towards Thereos, she wasn't sure why, but he made her feel safer when he was around. Moving beside him she lifted her hand and touched his arm,
"You are coming with us Sir? I don't want you to stay here where it isn't safe." She knew he wanted to be outside and this could be his chance to get near real grass and flowers, this could be a place he could be outside without being in danger.