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Originally Posted by
Zoerawrr 
"But..." Jake froze in the act of stowing his camera away, reaching out to catch the ball the prefect tossed back. "So... I can't throw things... But you can?" the boy raised one eyebrow, looking at the ball he'd just caught.
Demerit. Wut?
"Whassatmean?" Jake asked, scrunching his face up a little. What the heck was a demerit? o.O
Winnie's mouth fell open in indignation. "
I was returning the ball to you in friendly informality.
You were blindly launching it down a hallway!"
"It...means..." Winnie drew herself up. "That... you were doing someone inadvisable while indoors and...potentially harmful to others and I've...taken note of it." She blinked, confused for a moment and rushed ahead. "And if I were a professor I
would have taken a point off but I'm
not and so I
can't and so..." She paused. "I give demerits," she finished lamely.