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Whenever Nem smiled, Kins couldn't help but smile a little bit too. There weren't many people who encouraged her questions. Most people got mad or made her feel silly or called her incessant. That's why she was making efforts to hold back. She didn't want to be incessant. She really, really didn't. Incessant was the word people used when they wanted to write her off, and if there is one thing Kinsay really didn't like, it was exactly that. Being written off made her feel like she didn't belong.
Maybe that's why she liked Nem so much. He never made her feel like she was being incessant. And even though he knew so much more than she did, he didn't make her feel silly either. The way he answered her questions made her feel good, not weird or like they didn't matter or like she didn't belong or couldn't be part of the conversation.
So she stood quietly, watching him with respect. "Wow," she managed, all sorts of impressed and maybe a little warm and fuzzy too. She always felt that way when he trusted her with information. "Is metal better for pensieves?" There was something else she wanted to ask, but even Kinsay could tell when questions might be too intrusive. See? She was getting a hang of this not-being-incessant thing. Someone please tell Headmaster Trent.
She shifted a little uncomfortably under Nem's intense gaze, but only because she couldn't come up with a spell she really wanted to learn. But the feeling quickly dissolved when he began listing off suggestions, ones that were so clearly far beyond her casting abilities. "You really think I can learn the Summoning Charm?" Kins knew it was a fourth year spell because sometimes she liked to read ahead of what she was supposed to. Over the summer, when she was really bored, she'd even sneak into Teddy's room and flip through some his textbooks. It was fun to memorize spells, she'd make games of it. But knowing a spell and performing a spell were two very different things.
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