Anna smiled at her ex-boyfriend and best friend. He never failed to amaze her. "Cale," Anna said, her eyes widening and her smile getting bigger and bigger. "You're amazing. Simply amazing! You've only just seen the clues, and you've already figured them out! I'm impressed!" Anna knew she'd give Cale an ego-boost, but it actually made her happy to know that she might make him happy. He deserved it, especially after the rocky school year they'd both had so far.

"You know what?" Anna asked. "I say we all do this together. Let's start with one clue, and we can all go and search for it together, and then we can move on to the next clue. Or...we can divide up into groups, mixing up the houses, of course, and then we can all meet back in the middle when we find something. What do you think?" she asked, looking at everyone assembled.

Tia thought and said "I think we should either stick together as a group or we can split up i am going to for sticking together in a group"

Gah! The trophy room and the restricted section? This guy was brilliant! He'd thought of that in like on minute. "Those two places definitely sound right. There isn't any other place you could really get into trouble for going if you get caught with shelves." She definitely needed to go there. Oh, how she wished she had an invisibility cloak. " Do you think it would be best if each house rep went to the place that their scroll hinted to? If the scroll was meant for a certain house, maybe that house would be more likely to recognize it?" That was possible, wasn't it?

Hmm. They could all do it together too. She hadn't thought of that. A rep would still be there and there would be more eyes. "On second thought, I think you're right. We should do it all together."

"Oh, and I think the Ravenclaw one is the observatory, maybe?" She had gotten a peak at it when it opened. She'd have to read it again to be sure.

Cale tapped his chin in thought. "Well, we could all figure out the clues here and find out where we're going, and then split off into our seperate houses, taking our respective scrolls with us, and search for another clue. After that we can meet someplace and share all our clues and just go from there," he suggested.

Anna thought he was amazing? Well, no surprise there. Blushing again, he looked at his feet. "Ahh, it was nothing...I just kind of looked for um...key words," he muttered. "What have you got?" he asked everyone else.

Cale nodded in agreement, "Yeah, I agree. Plus we've got too many people to all go at once...we might just get confused," he chuckled.

Dominic nodded at Chocolate thrower girl. "Isn't that what we're doing, Captain Obvious?" he sighed, shaking his head and turning back towards Kaika.

Of course she minded; but she was ... a true badger. A teammate. And apparently, even through his attitude, was still going to respect him and share things with him, like the scroll. "Er... Um... Thank you Kaika," he admitted, accepting the scroll and reading it over.

Reflection... senses... "You don't think it means to go to the mirrors, do you?" he asked skeptically, handing the scroll back to her.

"Oh." was all that Dominic could say to Anna's comments. He couldn't deny it; she was right even if he never admitted it...

"Yes, the Astronomy tower" she said, after she'd read the Ravenclaw's scroll.

Kaika looked over at Dominic. Finally, the boy was speaking again. She smiled quickly and her face turned serious when she began to think again, "I think so, actually...where else? Not many things reflect others, Dom" she said, with a shrug.

Allie watched as Cale and Anna figured out the clues.

"So..." Kaika started to say, "...should we head to wherever the scroll hinted us to go and meet somewhere else later?" she asked, to all the ones gathered in there, "I mean, each House searches the place it was hinted?" she added, just in case.

"I don't mind splitting up, we may cover more ground that way" not to mention they'll be saving a lot of time. She bit her bottom lip waiting for someone else to speak.

Dominic overheard Kaika and Camira mentioning the Astronomy tower, which caused him to peek over with curiosity to read Ravenclaw's scroll. Nodding his head in agreement, he had to admit, observatory did seem likely.

When Kaika finally readdressed him about their scroll, he noticed her tone but decided to shrug it off. She had been nice enough to share after all. "Other than the lake, but I think a mirror is more likely..." Plus, he didn't fancy swimming in the freezing water anyway.

Listening to the others, he inclined his head towards his fellow Hufflepuff. "I agree with Kaika. Whilst working all together would be fine, splitting up via our own house scrolls would be best."

Wait. She'd said that in the first place. "So it looks like we'll be doing that then? Especially because if all of us tried to go to the restricted section, we'd surely get caught." True, she could get permission from a professor, but that would waste time. Besides, she didn't want that nosy librarian breathing down her back.

She was a bit surprise to hear Dominic backing her up, then again, she wasn't the first one to suggest that. It only appeared to be rather rational to do that, if they wanted to act fast, of course.

"Yes, it will seemed very suspicious" she agreed with Camira, "I do think that's what we should be doing, what you said first" she nodded, besides, Camira was true on another point, "And as you said, it was meant to be open from one House for a reason, right?" for only a Hufflepuff was able to open the one that apparently was meant for the House.

Tia nodded and said "Yeah i think it would be easier if we were concentrating on our own scroll so us slytherin's are heading to the restricted section" Tia knew that a few slytherins in the restricted section wouldnt be caught

"Okay, I have an idea," Anna said, speaking up for the first time in a few minutes. She'd been listening to what everyone else was suggesting, so she hadn't even thought of something to suggest herself until now. "We split up, house by house. We locate the clue, and then meet up again...erm, here...when all the clues have been found. We can owl one another (OOC: PM) when we have the next clue in our possession. What do you say?"

Tia listened to what Anna was saying and said "Yeah i think that is a good plan Anna"

Kaika nodded, "Sounds good to me" she said, "House by house first, and we'll see what we find" she repeated it, as if it was a Potions instruction. It was better to remember things and this was one way of doing so, repeating them to herself.

"House by house" she thought, and suddenly looked at Dominic, "Great" she could've had much more fun with...who knows? Someone else? But he wasn't always so bad, and he was smart. "Dom?" she asked, just to find out what he thought of it, even if she sort of knew the answer. Wait, Dom? Was she beginning to refer to him by that?

Melinda looked around. First, Kaika, her Huffie friend came and greeted her. "Hey, Kaika..." She answered. Then, Dominic, claiming the scroll that now belonged to both the Hufflepuffs.

She looked at the scroll, before even noticing, she had guessed the same thing everyone did, including Cale, who was already there, but completely ignored for those minutes. He had started helping Camira and Anna. Of course...the sun, the moon, the only place where they could be glanced correctly at was the Astronomy tower. Then, they mentioned the Mirror, then, the Restricted Section at the Library. They were geniuses!!!!

"I agree...splitting up is the best..." She answered and gulped. Feeling out of the place, Mel couldn't say any word at all. She just needed to know waht was all that about.

Well, that was that, they were going to be splitting off by houses to search for whatever it was they were searching for. Perhaps it would be helpful to know that, but that would remove the mysteriousness from it.

Looking over towards Kaika, a lump formed in his throat as he realized the splitting meant he'd be working with her. Not that she was bad; besides, she did have a way of bringing people together. Then she did something he rarely heard; she called him 'Dom'.

Glancing at her in curiosity for a moment, Dominic quickly looked away as not to be perceived as a stalker. "Kaik." he replied, giving her her own nickname.

"Shall we depart for our greatest reflections then?" Dom suggested, before going to join the rest of the members.

Camira nodded in agreement. "That sounds great, Anna", she said cheerfully. She turned to Tia then and grinned. "Are you ready to be sly and cunning", she asked half-seriously.

She listened as Camira agreed on separating and as the others spoke, but she was still waiting for Dominic's response. "So he'd noticed too" she thought, about the way she decided to call him this time, she wasn't the only one surprised about that little fact.

"Kaik? Was he trying to be funny? What was that about?" she thought, but didn't waste any more time thinking about it. For all she knew it could be a way of making him feel slightly more comfortable around others.

Okay. Kaika couldn't help to chuckle after his question, "Our greatest reflections?" right, Hufflepuff's greatest reflections that is. She sighed, "Yes, fine" she couldn't think of anything better to answer to that one.

Dominic noticed that it seemed to have gotten much quieter in these parts of the corridor. For which he was indifferent about whether it was a good thing or a bad thing.

He noticed she didn't reply to his nickname for her, and wondered if perhaps she didn't like it. But chose to ignore it, just as she did it. Why bring up more than necessary?

Especially hearing her chuckle as she questioned them going to look at their reflections. Did she have to pick up on every little mistake he made? Honestly, he definitely did not mean it like that... rather it was... well, it was complicated. "Not necessarily ours, but the reflections the scroll was referring to," he sighed quietly. When she agreed to go, he nodded at her. "Sounds good," and with that proceeded to walk down to the the mirrors... wherever they be. Hopefully Kaika knew.