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Fingers spritely dancing across each and every single petal in the bouquet, Anna pivoted on to her tippy toes and bounced slightly to place a little tender peck to his cheek. "They're lovely and incredibly sweet of you. You know, the sad things about flowers like this is that they will wilt, unless you use magic on them but I sort of feel like doing so takes away some of the charm and natural beauty of nature to enhance it with magic...but anyway! I think what I'll do is press them so they can dry and then I can preserve the blossoms," she mused while taking in the fresh floral scent. "I know an older Ravenclaw girl, she is a seventh year who always carries salt with her, that takes flowers and makes watercolor paints from their petals too so I suppose that is also an option...OH! I know. Wait...no...I won't tell you so that I can surprise you later with what I decide upon."
Because he had given her a raincoat and now these lovely flowers and prepared so much for their puzzle time and it would be a disservice not to give him something as heartfelt in return. Perhaps something matching...
Very keen to see what this new jigsaw puzzle he had selected, Anna tried to hurry their steps along just a bit while their conversation turned to defining (or redefining?) words. "I suppose...I mean, Yule Balls are rather fancy...and I know some people, non-magical peers I've met while exploring London, who say it is rather posh that I go to a boarding school...but it doesn't seem that way to me at all because it's my normal and like...habitual existence." She wasn't so sure on the phrasing of that second bit but it made sense in her head. "Oh, you know what I think is really fancy? There are these...ornate eggs. They aren't real eggs...at least I don't think they are...but made from stone and wood and then bedazzled and decorated with jewels and precious metals and all sorts of things. They are purely decorative...like...they don't serve any other purpose other than being a feast for the eyes and they do a very good job of that!" She wouldn't mind having one of her own, truth be told, and perhaps it was these gorgeous eggs that had inspired her rock painting this term. Sure, they were not bejewelled and some of them more imperfect than others depending on how steady her hand was on the day...but they were decorations too and meant to be a feast for the eyes as well as the soul. "Maybe...fancy things are just that...things that are fulfilling aesthetically as well as feed the soul."
Standing up on her tiptoes again, Anna tried to gauge just how much she may or may not have grown by utilizing her none entwined hand from the top of her curls and over to Reuben...which wasn't very accurate since her curls added a bit of height from the top of her head so she performed her makeshift measuring again and this time flattened her locks with the palm of her hand...and the flowers - which meant that, maybe Reuben got a cheek full of flora for a moment. "I think that just happens...girls tend to sprout up sooner and faster than boys but it all balances out eventually," she nodded and returned to her regular bouncy strides. "In any case though," she beamed and turned her head to look up at him, her smile bright in eager anticipation for the jigsaw and snacks ahead. "I doubt you'll have to worry about my ever getting taller than you. Mum isn't particularly tall and dad...well...I never met him so I don't know for certain but I've always imagined him to be just a hair or so above average height. He wasn't any part giant, that much I am certain of." At least in the stories she had told herself he had never been...a thought that made her face fall slightly and a dull throb manifest in her left temple.
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