"Heyyyy!" It was clear, very clear, that Fyo was in a good mood. Which, of course, evaporated a bit when she mentioned the heavy load. "Exam fever," he told her. "I crammed in everything I could, before the runes final and, of course, just my luck that we didn't have to do any translations. Was on my way to the common room, now. But the staircase ..." he trailed off, and eyed said staircase. It had been a BAD kid.

"It's good I ran into you, though. I wanted to meet you." His tones turned more serious, less happy. "I might not return next term. I'm going to miss you awfully, Reesekitty. Very awfully."

Reese smiled at Fyo's happiness. It was good to see a happy face especially considering she was mad at the staircase for moving on her. Why did it seem the staircase ALWAYS moved when was walking down the stairs? As Fyo explained cramming in information for his runes final, the girl raised one of her eyebrows. "You know it's bad to cram in information at the last minute," she stated. "The final is over, isn't it? That means you can take that big book back to the Library where it belongs." She looked at the railing of the staircases and rolled her eyes. "I don't like when the staircases move," she added.

"You wanted to..." Reese stopped talking when she heard the last few things Fyo had told her. "Fyo. Fyodor Balouch. What is this nonsense you are talking about? You have to come back next term. You neeeeeed to be here for my graduation," she told him.

"I knowwww," Fyo said, with a nod. Of course he knew, how could he not? "But that knowledge doesn't help much. I can't keep my eyes off reference material, till I've stepped into the examination hall itself." GAH! "I should take it back, but there's something in it that interests me. Some meanings and stuff. I want to read those."

"Me, neither -- and they mostly move when I'm in a rush, and then I end up getting late." He hated it when that happened.

My gosh! He had forgotten that she would graduate the term after! "We ARE going to meet till the end of ETERNITY, Reese Upstead!" he said firmly. "I'm not going to ... miss out anything that's special like this for you. But..." he dropped his voice. "I can't stay."