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Lissy Longbottom 
Cale jumped himself a little bit as Anna hit her head, and it sounded like she had hit it pretty hard. "Oh, are you ok?" he asked, hurrying over to her. He had been about to reach out and rub her head--his natural instinct--but stopped. That might not be appropriate right now. Not with their current situation.
"I'm ok," he mumbled, smiling sheepishly as she wished him a happy birthday. "Thanks...I'm finally of age!" he said, trying to sound enthusiastic about it. Instead, he just kept replaying memories of his last birthday. He had kind of sort of been with Cora, but slowly falling for Anna, and she had gotten him jelly slugs as a present, and he bought her a ton of chocolate frogs. Was that the time they threw the Cooper card under the rack? It might have been.
"Yeah, I'll be alright," she mumbled. "I think so at least..." He certainly had hurried over to her when she'd first nearly knocked herself out. That was so sweet of him. Then again, she would have done the
same thing had it been him getting hurt instead. Oh, wait. No, no, no. She wouldn't have done the
same thing. She woud have first made sure he was okay, then she would have hexed the suit of armour into oblivion for even daring to hurt him in the first place.
"You
are of age, aren't you," Anna said, smiling as she talked. "I'm not too far behind you, you know. I'll be there next year. I hope you've had a really nice day. Anyway, like I said, I got --..."
She never got to finish that thought, though. The dizziness came back, and the next thing she knew, the floor appeared to be the ceiling, and the ceiling appeared to be the floor. "I...uhhh, Cale...," she mumbled, right before swaying back and forth a few times and finally staggering over just a bit to the point where she fell right into his arms.