"thanks sir!" Lyra said back to him with a smile and turned around again to pick up the sleeping bag that was lying on top, dropped it on the ground and picked the one under the first one, weird habit. Lyra actually wanted to hear 'you can keep the bag afterwards' instead of turning it in...she wanted a sleeping bag for her own, but apparently that was not going to happen. Lyra pushed the thought aside and looked around the ground to search for a place to sit and found a spot near the fire. Lyra placed her sleeping bag on the ground and sat on it, listening to and watching the other students while plucking grass with her hand.

"This is his guitar, look," Kiri said to Vanessa and pointed - unnecessarily - at the guitar in her lap. "He's been playing for eight years! And he can play the piano, too." She stopped as Emiliano began explaining about how he learned to play the guitar. Kiri was even more fascinated than before. He hadn't just learned two instruments, one of them had been taught to him by a Bulgarian instructor! She remembered vaguely that Emiliano had once explained to her how he and his family were always on the move all over the world, but the glimpses she got into this reality - such as a Bulgarian guitar teacher - only added to the story. It sounded like a constant adventure. The good kind of adventure.

"I'd love to learn it," she said to both of them, then, turning to Emiliano, added, "I'm not sure why my parents might not let me. Actually, maybe they would." She shrugged unconcernedly. Right now, it didn't even seem to matter much. "I don't think I've ever really asked. Maybe I will when I'm back home. Oh, hold on, Vanessa..." The girl was unpacking her sleeping back.

Kiri, working around the guitar, pushed her bag out of the way to make room for Vanessa, happy that the Hufflepuff girl had apparently decided to set up camp next to Kiri. Now she wouldn't be lonely. "Are you going to stay here?" she asked. "Where's, er, Miles? Is he studying for the exams? Karma has... erm sorry, she's a friend of Emiliano's", Kiri interrupted herself to explain, "Karma isn't here tonight either because she's revising."

Yaaah! Thats it! I'm gonna learn to speak it.Yup I am! Shana Miller the first evaah person to speak Chimaera.Mabye I'll get a award or something. she beamed.

Thats good then,I'm real too.Hey,Thats another thing we have in common. she beamed,She poked herself to prove she was real.Wanna be friends ? We could learn to Speak Chimaera together,if you want ?

Cam eyed Livvy and curiously tapped his foot, wondering what the heck to say to her next. Fascinating? OHYIPEE so she actually believed him, right? Right? He grinned and bit into his chocolate bar again, and she suddenly said something. "Paaardon?" Pfft she must've said something like he was awesome or something like that, because it was true.

Duhhh.

AND HE WAS POKETH'D. He poked BACK, again. He poked not once but three times in total in the same spot he previously poked her.

"YES! She is a CANNIBAL," he blurted out, loud enough for others to hear around him, "yes, she feaaaasts on men--her plants told me, I talked to them and all." Lie, again? But he was talking to a certain lot of plants these days. So... half-lie. Half-lie. "And noooo, hobos getting these jobs aren't a guuuud thing. 'Tis all bad. The world will end. 4 days from now. Apocalypse. APOCALYPSEEEEE!"

He twitched.

And then he saw... the nurse? Carrying a BIIIIG bag. PRESENTS?! "It's Santa. It's SANTAA LIVVY!" If only she had a beard.

Having finally worked his way through that massive baguette sandwich and therefore also successfully gotten rid of his momentary angst, Garret flicked a jelly bean at Winnie for her last comment, but responded to Daphne's instead, "I'll chew however I want, Daff, and don't call me that."

His ears burned under his hair, he could feel them growing very warm, but he wasn't about to call attention to them. Instead, he drew one of the big blankets that Neo had supplied around his shoulders. He could pretend to hide his head because he was getting chilly!

"Ah...yess that day." Vanessa shuddered a little. She didn't like that memory, and she was quite glad that the water had gone now. "Did you get out alright?" Well that was a little obvious seeing as he was out here. "I'm glad the waters gone." Vannie smiled at him. Because now she knew Hogwarts would be okay when she was gone.



"Ooh...you play the guitar? Thats awesome." Vanessa nodded with a smile, glancing up at Emilino. "I play the bass." She added, thinking of her bass at home. She would be glad to go home and be able to play it again teehe.
"And the piano? You talented boy." She grinned, looking up at him. She'd love to hear him play. "You should play tonight....I'll tell Mr. Masterson myself." She instructed, with a smile. Of course it'd be better if he said he'd play.

"Yush....I'll even get the likes of Lyra to camp out with you if you want." She giggled. She'd rather they come over to her, than have to leave the loverly Kiri on her own, and surely Kiri could be a pink lady? "I dunno where Miles is..." Vanessa shrugged, although it would be nice if he was down here. "He probably is studying for his exams though." Vannie nodded, knwoing that she probably should be doing that. Ahh well.

Jealous? JEALOUS?! Scoffing indignantly, she upturned her nose and blocked Winnie out of her field of vision by turning away from her. There was no way she would acknowledge her ridiculous statement.

"There's bugs," she commented sourly and whipped out her wand, zapping the nearest moth into oblivion.

Ew. Was Garret sitting on the ground? Wrinkling her nose, she aimed her wand at the spots of grass, scourgifying everything within sight. "I'm...going to need extra blankets."

To make a new ground with.

Antonio was surprised to get an invitation to the camping out event. He thought it sounded like fun and a nice way to mingle with the students and fellow staff members, especially after all the tension that had just happened at Hogwarts from the mermaids flooding the castle and more recently, the unfortunate attack on the Headmaster. He had somewhat of an idea of what to bring, toting a large knapsack filled with cans of baked beans, clothing and safety supplies. This should be fun. "Hey Constantine, everyone, I'm here", he greeted.

"Certainly," Winnie said cheerfully. "I think it's very astute that you poked me to see if I was real. I think it shows real gumption, you know? MOXY."

Chucklechucklechuckle. Garret trying to hide his ears under a blanket...he might set the blanket AFLAME. Daphne killing innocent moths in lovesick anger. She was getting better at recognizing these things. Mum would be proud.

SUBJECT CHANGE.

"Do you know they expect us to SLEEP in the sleeping bags...on the ground?" Winnie offered. "Why not just tents? If there weren't sweets involved I wouldn't understand at all."

Oh dear. He had heard her. Livvy just smiled and shook her head. "Oh nothing. Just stating the obvious, luv," she said, maintaining that innocent smile on her face that she had practiced so well when she was a child.

EEEE! Livvy flinched and pouted as the younger boy poked her THREE times in the same spot. If one poked you in the same spot on your skin continuously... it could cause a BRUIISE! GACK! Livvy didn't want to admit it, but this little puny boy that was like a foot shorter than her... was bullying her. But he was too cute to hold anything against, so she followed suit and poked him three times in the same spot she had poked previously.

"SHHHH!!!! Do you HAFTA tell the entire world?" she asked, smirking slightly. Well it'd give a warning to all the boys out there that was infatuated with the Herbology Professor. Livvy raised an eyebrow at what he said next. "Errr.... you talk... to plants?" she asked, not believing it one bit. Yah right.

Livvy snorted. An Apocalypse just because some hobos decided they didn't want to be hobo no more and decide they want to make a complete fool out of themselves? That didn't quite make sense. "You're over-exaggerating Cam," she said.

Santa? Livvy turned around to look in the direction that Cam was looking and saw that it was Nurse Avalon. Nurse Avalon was Santa? Well she sure looked like Santa, by the way she lugged that BIIIIIGGG sack. Livvy chuckled and shook her head. "Santa comes in Christmas, sweetie. That's just Nurse Avalon lugging an abnormally amount of stuff in that sack of hers, in the manner of Santa Clause."

Nodding his head under his blanket at Winnie's suggestion, Garret chewed on a wriggling chocolate frog, "Yeh," he said, "S'not like we don't have magic tents that we could conjure up, right?" he popped the whole chocolate frog in his mouth and swallowed before going on, "I don't mind sleepin' on the ground, but for the prissy people like Daff 'ere, well, the tents would've made more sense."

He shot her a look that said YES I JUST CALLED YOU PRISSY!

Camp out sounded great! For someone that had never camped anywhere, it was an exciting experience. It was with a splenderous mood that Eva Longwood greated the groundskeeper:
"Hello, Mr. Masterson. How do you do?" she immediately tried to look for people she knew or any other sixth years. She recognized the Hufflepuff Prefect, the prince of... some place she probably didn't know it existed, the school nurse and a few other fellow badgers.

She found an empty place near a group of students who seamed to know each other very well and asked the nearest person:
"Mind if I stay here?" she asked her her typical good-girl smile.

Shanas eyes widened.Winnie and Shana,first evaah Chimerra(?) speakers. she beamed.Astute ? Whats that mean ? And gumption ? Moxy ? You use lots of biiiig words that're hard to understand. she nodded firmly.

Scourgify! Scourgify! Scourgify!

That will have to do, she thought as she sighed with her hands on her hips. Walking over to Garret she reached over his shoulder for a roll of blankets. "That's why I'm not sleeping at all," she commented towards Winnie before Garret's words registered with her.

Blushing, she swung the roll of blankets enough to knock him on the side of the head before turning around and sprawling them out evenly. Then, she stood up and observed them critically before adjusting them once more. They had to be even. Even enough for her to pretend there wasn't grass and dirt underneath them. "Besides, I'm not a little girl. I don't need to sleep through the entire night."

Pointedly, she stared at Garret. Little boy.

Winnie dug through her pack, dumping a load of sweets in front of her. "I don't think it's particularly prissy," she said, unwrapping one. "I just don't fancy accidentally breathing in dirt, you know? I COULD DIE."

Winnie blinked politely, frowning. "But...Moxy's only got 4 letters in it...it just means...brave? But not quite."

Winnie stifled a guffaw. She had to admit it was funny when Daphne caused any sort of bodily harm to Garret. "That's good, I suppose. You can kill all the bugs."

Oh Yeah,Your right. Shana giggled.You think I'm brave for poking your face ? Wow.Thanks But you must think Cameron Karstens emmensly brave then. she smiled.

Dani ran over to where the Healer was, not to help her, but to play with the puppy. But Mr. Masterson got there first. Pssh. She went over to the dog anyway. "Hi Roma." She said, scratching her behind the ears. "Aren't you the cutest little puppy in the world." She smiled and picked up a stick, waving it in Romas face.

Pretending that he hadn't just been physically assaulted by the annoying little Gryffindor, Garret simply drew his blanket tighter around himself and scowled at the bonfire Neo had just conjured up, "I hope you don't plan on talking the whole night, cos some of us would like to get some sleep." He sniffed as he picked out a dark green bean from his assortment of sweets, "The grown ups have things to do in the morning, ya know wot I mean?"

He popped the bean in his mouth and made a face. BLEGH, oregano.

Shana ran over to where Mr.M,Miss.A,Dani and Roma where.Mr.M...Do we have to sleep under trees ? she looked at Roma and Dani and smiled,still pondering why Clark and Dani where talking about Dani leaving ? Pfft.Stupid people.

William looked around from his spot near the back. Why he had been sitting in the back of the crowded area he didn't know. Spotting Elizabeth sitting in a random spot he smiled, picking his stuff up and making his way over. He heard a small meow and looked down seeing his kitten, now almost a full year old prancing beside him Shaking his head, he nodded towards the spot he was headed, her following close behind. Hopefully Roma wouldn't try to eat her he thought stopping beside Elizabeth and smiling down at her. "Is this spot taken?" He asked gently, a grin forming on his face.

He hadn't seen her around much since the whole great hall/headmaster incident. He didn't want to think of that much. Instead he pulled his binky closer to him, wrapping it around his shoulders like a shawl.

"Sure, why not," said Kiri excitedly, although she didn't even know who Lyra was. She began to pluck the strings on the guitar again at random. Emiliano would have to play something later on!

She interrupted herself only when the Groundskeeper stepped forward. He waved his wand, and immediately, flames began to creep up the first logs. Within minutes, there was a roaring fire in front of her while the sun, an even more gigantic fire a mere 150 million kilometres away, was disappearing behind the horizon. Overhead, the sky became steadily darker. Kiri listened silently as Mr Masterson gave his little speech. It only lasted a minute or two, luckily. When he was done, the conversations all around Kiri that had been on hold while the Groundskeeper had been speaking started up again. A few people got up to inspect the baskets.

There was one a few metres away from Kiri. She was kind of hungry, and this was also the perfect atmosphere for some food!
The heat of the fire was noticeable now, warming her face. She turned to Vanessa. "Hey, do you want something to eat? I don't even know what kind of food there is..."