Originally Posted by Antarctica!

Kiri nodded. She watched silently as Raiden let the cat down on the bench, her eyes following it as it set off to hunt mice, or whatever it was cats did. To see Raiden kneel in front of her like that was a little odd, and even now it send tiny tingling spikes into her spine. She stretched out her hand and briefly touched Raiden's cheek. It felt... natural. Where her fingers touched him, they burned. (Or so it seemed.) "'m okay," she mumbled. "Wet robes is all." When she shifted on the bench, water droplets plunked down onto the stone floor.

She was interrupted by the arrival of the Gryffindor girl who had tended to Raiden earlier. Kiri removed her hand hastily, and, taken by surprise, took the little phial that was being handed to her. A Head Girl badge was gleaming on the girl's robes, so she felt safe to pull out the stopper and down the potion in one go. A great warmth, not unlike the warmth she felt when Raiden was around, spread through her body. The girl had been right, it really helped, although Kiri was now more aware of the wet robes clinging to her legs than before. Her brain still seemed a little frozen, however. A little lost for words, Kiri pointed at the cat. "Is that, err, yours? I didn't know you had a cat."