 Auden
Tapio watched his students head off across the meadow in pairs and small groups--they all seemed to be getting on without further assistance from him, for the moment at least (though he was keeping an eye on the path heading off in the direction of the Forbidden Forest, just in case). He noticed one of the first years had stayed near the baskets and hampers and decided to check in her.
"Doing all right, Miss Azarolla?" he asked, looking down at the young Ravenclaw. "Did you want to go look for some fluxweed? I can go with you, if you'd rather have company." It occurred to him that Auden might not feel comfortable roaming around the meadow at night alone. "Or you're certainly welcome to stay here and rest--this isn't a class."
While waiting to see if his student needed anything from him, Tapio began to lift the lids of one of the basketss and magically lift out a number of blankets and quilts, spread them open, and set them down on the ground. These were followed by piles of plates, napkins, cups, and cutlery. Finally, Tapio opened the hampers containing the food--sandwiches, sausage rolls, fruit, cut-up veggies, and last but not least, an assortment of cookies and small cakes of various kinds. No outing was complete without a little food, after all, and there was nothing like a picnic by moonlight. The last thing he did was to levitate strings of fairy lights out of the last basket and magically drape them up into the limbs of the tree under which this picnic was laid out. It would be waiting for the students when they got back from their explorations.
[OOC: I'll be wrapping up this outing over the weekend but there's still a day or two left to enjoy Tapio's picnic and wrap things up.] |