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Kolyander Lia blinked at him in a moment's confusion and had to force herself not to frown. How had he managed to keep out of the barns all that time? Even last term.. after.. well after everything that had.. well he knew. She had come back in here. That stall had been completely avoided like it wasn't even there and she had broken down numerous times but she couldn't keep herself away. "I couldn't stay away," admits in a soft whisper. They all needed her but she had needed them even more.
However she was feeling right than, Lia could tell that Quinn was hurting too. Their pain while it may have came from the same source it was still different. "Well..how-umm how could you if- if uh, you haven't been in here?" She hadn't meant anything bad by her words so she hoped they didn't come out sounding harsh, especially as her tone held it's own note of sadness.
Huh?
Lia paused. Quinn's words while it took her a full minute or two to fully process what he was saying to her.. made sense. If they hadn't actually saw, what they thought they had saw and they only saw it directly afterwards then they wouldn't actually have seen anything. Therefore, no Thestrals. Letting out a breath, she sat herself down on the ground beside him, hugging her knees to her chest. "..I never thought of that before.. and it actually does make sense. It's possible.. not sure what the odds are.. but yeah.." Either way there was only one real way of knowing and that was to look over at that stall.
Quinn nodded silently. He understood where Lia was coming from—the animals were to her what plants were for him. He always thought they were funny that way, not exactly opposites, but... there was some connection there, right? They were the Ravenclaws of magical nature. If they both stuck with what they know, he wouldn't be surprised if they worked together somewhere down the line.
He shrugged because she was right. He wouldn't have ever known if he hadn't come in here... but he didn't even want the chance of being able to see them, at first. He just... wanted to avoid it like the plague. But he wasn't sure exactly how to vocalize that.
When Lia told him he was making sense he let out a little sigh. He was... almost afraid of that, really. It confirmed that.... that he wanted to look. He watched Lia as he sat next to him.
"Um... do you think that.... um.... we should...." look? He let the sentence trail off. A definitive action word was a little bit too hard for him to say in this moment.