She nodded and double-checked her spell work before quickly going to get the stakes and ties. She did as he told her, carefully tying and staking each part to the ground. One corner done.... and then the next. And so far it looked like it was stable. She looked over to the boy who was helping to check his and make sure hers was right.

Vashti smiled at the other girl and wondered for a brief moment whether she ought to introduc herself too... Nah, Trixie had pretty much shouted her name for all to hear, so there was no need for introductions. Still...Vashti decided it would be the polite thing to do. "Nice to meet you, Ella," she said. "In case you somehow didn't hear Trixie shouting, I'm Vashti."

Noticing Trixie pushing the feather she was suddenly wearing in her hair away from her face, Vashti could help but be evil flick it so that the tip of it fell down into the Slytherin's face again. Hehe. "Nice feather, Pocahontas," she said, grinning. Then noticing the material, the Ravenclaw took a part of it and helped lift it up with the other two. She still wasn't sure what she was doing, so she was just following their lead.

And then someone else was here! "Jayce!" she said before correcting herself. "I mean, Mr. Illiterate! We certainly could use your help! It doesn't require reading after all." She grinned at him teasingly.

"Sure,why not", Fee said smiling,"what year are you in?"
Fee made her way over to Jacqueline and the other students.
She fluffed up her wavy,blonde curls and checked her make up in her compact.

Since when had Jayce been here? Did he even take Ancient Runes?

*Blink*

"Only if you plait your hair" the girl smirked. He wasn't joining in the fun unless he had his hair like she had, feather included. Oh come on it was a tepee they were creating here, they had to have fun somewhere. Could they like make a campfire and dance around it like in Pocahontas and stuff. See now that would be loads of fun.


Pulling Jayce into the operation too, Trix pulled even harder and eventually they had lifted the material up. "Just drag it over there......" she tried to direct with her head over the top of the tepee. They should get points just for sheer effort of lifting up this piece of canvas. This would have been so much easier with magic but oh well.

Trixie giggled as Ella plaited her hair too and Trix shoved a green feather in her hair to match Trixie's also green one. House Pride you know? "Where is face paint when you need it?" Guess she'd have to use magic for that one. "Accio Face Paint" and with a pop the paint appeared before her. She smudged two lines with her fingers across her cheeks and then on Ella's. Perfect.

Heeeeeeeeeeey!

The Blonde pushed the feather back up and frowned at Vashti. Revenge would be hers. With that Trix had smeared the face paint over Vashti as well, whilst giggling evilly. Ah see now this was fun. "You need one too" she complained whilst grabbing her by the shoulders and quickly braiding her hair. "There you go" she shoved a blue feather in the band around her head.

Now all they needed to do was make the tent all pretty like.

"Okie dokes." Swinging her legs, she watched him start to climb back down the tree. A part of her wondered what building tents had to do with Runes, but the thought passed just as soon as it came. She wasn't really watching Sabel as he picked out a tarp for her, the lake held her attention as she was hoping to spot the giant squid. When she heard her name, she glanced down at grinning Sabel curiously. "For the tarp, what is it?"

Adam looked around the field and saw Kurumi. "Kurumi!" he called out. From far across he shouted,"DO you want to partner up with me?"He wasn't sure that he knew many people here. Better to be safe than sorry right. He ran over to her and saw that there was a tent. Was it hovering in the air already?

Affixing one and then the other on his side, SImon quickly double-checked the security of them both before standing back to examine both of their work. "Looks good," he replied with a smile as he walked back to her. "I'm Simon by the way," he introduced, having realised they hadn't even known each other then he offered his help.

Kurumi looked around at her now completed pink flowery tree she had created and smiled at Cam. She then decided to start swinging in the tire swing the prefect had added and sung back and forth waiting for the next instructions or next person to stop by her tent...

SPOILER!!: update tent...sorry for the mediocre graphic

"Adam! Over here!" she called as she jumped from her swing and landed with a small thud on the ground. She pointed up to her tent. "Tada!" She had't put anything inside it besides sleeping bags yet though...maybe Adam had some ideas.

She blushed a little and smiled. "I'm Lina. Pleased to meet you." She looked up at him, then realized... "Oh, I know I probably don't look like it with how small I am, but I'm a sixth year."

With a wide grin, he placed his hands on his hips and started to do a silly jig, bobbing his head up and down with each singsong word. "Badger badger badger, mushroom mushroom."

It was a short little dance, but it only made him more excited about his idea and he snapped the tarp up in front of himself, grinning up at her from over the top. "We paint it like a Hufflepuff flag. Yellow background, badger on either side, where the slants are." He pointed to the inclines in his own tarp as demonstration. "Then we hang it up like I did mine, and everyone will know, even those flying high on brooms, that this is a Hufflepuff's tent...campsite rather." He briefly wondered if he would ever get his own tent set up in time.

"That's amazing. Well done...You should add something in there...Wait about a kitchen, since you like baking so much, or a few cookies on a coffee table."He said, smiling brightly at the tent Kurumi had just jumped off."I haven't started mine yet...In fact I didn't here the instructions..."He admitted shyly.

Gahhh! Why couldn't he remember her name? He must know her.. Soo familiar. If it wouldn't make him look like an idiot he'd slap himself in the head. And oh crackerjacks. She knew him, that must mean that he knew her too. And she looks so much like Trixie. Hmm.. Trixie had a cousin.. didn't she? Annnnd. This girl looked like Trixie.. but wasn't Trixie's cousin... OH. She had dyed her hair. Duh! "Hi Ella." he smiled at the girl as the name popped up into his head.

Annnnnnd bookworm. Mwahaha. He could remember her name. "Vash- Errr.. Bookworm." Cue the smirk. "Hey. I can read. I just choose not to." he chuckled. Ahh, tents. "So.. what you're saying is that you need a strong outdoorsy guy like me to set up your tent?" He laughed and pretended to flex his non existent muscles. "Because it totally doesn't involve reading."

"OOOOOH! GIMMEH." he wanted a feather. Dude, how much cooler can you get? Not everyone can pull off the feather-in-the-hair look. Only the suuuuuuper cooooool people. Jayce held out his hand waiting for Trix to give it to him. "On second though." he said, pulling his hand back. "You should put it IN my hair." he finished with a grin.

now to decorate the tent she eyed the blank white tent she thought for a moment about the design hmmm.... after a few minutes the tent walls looked like this,



circling the tent she put beautiful flowers that loooked like this




"ooh how pretty!" she thought "i sure do like using magic"

Kurumi smiled as she walked over to Adam. "Well, we are allowed to work in groups. Cam helped me with the swing and flowers a bit. So...if you help me with the inside, consider yourself a part of the group," she said as she ruffled his hair a little with her non-wand hand. "How are we going to get a kitchen in there...?"

Agghhh, face paint ALL OVER her face! What a meanie! Vashti stuck her tongue out at Trixie but had little time to do anything else as the Slytherin was suddenly grabbing her, braiding her hair, shoving a headband around her head, and sticking a feather into it. Oi! Violent Slytherdove, wasn't she? "Gee, thanks," she said with a slight roll of her eyes. She did like it though. They were VERY in-character for this tepee now. Hehe.

"So how're we going to decorate it?" she asked them all.

Bookworm? Laaame. Vashti got that one a lot from her friends. Clearly Mr. Illiterate was also uncreative with nicknames. Hehe. "Suuuure, you can," she teased. "But you and I both know the truth." She rolled her eyes slightly and tried not to grin or laugh as he flexed his 'muscles'. "No, what I'm saying if that you are able to help only because there is no reading involved. It has nothing to do with your being 'strong' or 'outdoorsy'," she answered, complete with air quotes.

To Aiden this was easy. His dad liked to take him camping all the time. With a flick of his wand a giant tent popped up. He went inside and flicked his wand pointing to the corner. A black bed appeared. Another flick and a mini fridge that was charmed to fit as much stuff as you wanted was there. Pointing at the ceiling, he made there be a disco ball. He also hung a tire swing. A chair in the opposite corner of the bed. Yes. His tent was complete. And there was a big place for swinging and a big place for, whatever you wanted. He was gonna hang on his swing for a bit. His dad was so awesome.

Ella smiled at Vashti, "Nice to meet you too." It was nice to know that Trixie had her sources and managed to make people pop along and help them. They needed it.

"Is it done nowwww?" Ella moaned, as they kept on pulling the stupid material-thing. She was just excited to make it look nice, and they'd SURELY be running out of time sooner or later. Ella gave an annoyed look at Trixie. This hard task was her fault. For not letting her use magic. Hopefully it would get funner soon..
FACE PAINT! KEWL! "Heh. Oh my Merlin, we're lookin' good." She laughed.

Ella waited for Jayce to recognize her.... Or maybe he had totally forgotten who she was in the first place. Tick tock. There we go. "Hai." She chuckled, then gave their 'tent' another look.
"Guys! We need to put stuff IN our tent too!" Ahh.

Vilhelmiina grabbed her supplies and started to set up her tent underneath her favourite tree. When she was finished pitching her tent, she thought that it looked a little...boring. So she decided to add some things. The first thing she did was paint. Yellow and black. And purple and lime green. 'My tent is going to look like a bumblebee going to a rave,' she thought. She added some percentage-sized towers because she liked castles. Inside, she added a tye-dye sofa and a small bathroom. She went camping a lot with her family, so she new some stuff about these spells. She set up her sleeping bag in the bedroom and turned it into a small canopy. She decorated it with peace signs inside and out to represent her hippiness. There were also Lily of the Valley everywhere. They were her favourite flower. She even added chairs shaped like them. Then she went back outside to see what was going on.

Louisa was touched by Enya's few words or whispers. "It's okay Enya. Really it is." She wanted to say more but her friend got up quickly and darted away. From her and from the class.

Louisa dragged herself to the tent and sat by it. Now she had no partner to share this stupid tent with. She needed to add some furniture too. She can't even look at this tent anymore. Sigh plus groan.

She got up lazily with a frown on her face and looked at the tent. She could do the interior of the tent simple. Round cushions for floor-sitting and a small table in the middle for multi-use.

She was working non-stop and bringing those cushions and pile them in the tent neatly. And then she changed their colors to Burgundy. With a nice table in the middle. There, she was done in a bout 5 minutes.



She sat in front of the tent alone and kind of sad feeling really annoyed at Enya for walking away like that. We're in a lesson for heaven's sake! URGH! Spoiled kid. Heh.

"Nice to meet you as well," Simon replied noticing her blush as he met her gaze while looking down at her. Of course now that he was standing closer to her you could tell there was several inches height difference between them. "I'm a fifth year," he said half hesitantly hoping not to cause her any more reasons to blush that a student a year behind was close to a foot taller.

"And you're right that I wouldn't guess it first off, but I've kinda moved on from trying to figure out years from appearance. You can never be certain especially with peculiarly tall first years sometimes," he added with a shrug.

"I've got no clue...Magic it, I would say...I'm just being my stupid self again."he laughed, fixing up his hair a little nicely. "What if is it possible to make something out of nothing ...Than we can make the kitchen, magic it to a small playhouse doll size then enlarge it once inside the tent?"he suggested. "Why don't you ask Cam she might know..."

Jimmy glanced at Tuney when she patted his shoulder, still a little huffy but somewhat intrigued by the idea of putting up tents in a class on runes. Were they going to paint them after? cover the tents with runes to keep out the elements? Something, right? He eyed the materials for a bit and then levitated them over, not willing to get up and play fetch for Tuney.

Jimmy Wilkes did not play fetch for anyone.

"You're going to help me." He told her, giving her a look. No chance he'd let her sit on her butt and make him do all the work. Not his style.

....

James grinned slowly. "Yeah. Runes." He cleared his throat and then didn't say anything else since Cammy and the professor were talking and of course Jimmy didn't much want to draw any extra attention to himself from the professor, who was already giving him speculative looks that James didn't much like the cut of.

He didn't miss Tuney's looks when Cammy sat down, and didn't comment on that either. It was almost a relief when Cam went off to help someone else, though James would hardly have minded sharing a tent with the red head.

He stood up and turned to Neptune.

Jimmy folded his arms across his chest, expression growing belligerent.

"No."

Not a fan of whining, Neptune Bott.

"We'll build one together, but I'm not bloody well doing it for you."

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Jimmy Wilkes did not play fetch for anyone.

"You're going to help me." He told her, giving her a look. No chance he'd let her sit on her butt and make him do all the work. Not his style.

...

He stood up and turned to Neptune.



Jimmy folded his arms across his chest, expression growing belligerent.

"No."

Not a fan of whining, Neptune Bott.

"We'll build one together, but I'm not bloody well doing it for you."

Neptune shrugged a shoulder, WHATEVER made Jim happy, right?

GIGGLE. Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.


She used the pole she'd retrieved as a sort of maypole, and did a few slow laps around with her fingers grasping the top of it.


"You want me to hold your hand while we build?" GIGGLE. Neptune did a few more laps around the pole, each time she came around to Jimmy she'd GRIIIIIN. "You're better at levitating. Put a sheet over the pole, JimJim."

She nodded, giggling. "Yeah, I know what you mean. I'm just glad I don't look like a first-year anymore. I grew very slowly after I was six. Found out this summer that it was some sort of spell cast on me. Probably about the same time I lost my memory. So we've been working on a way for me to grow up a little more. I actually grew three inches last summer!"

"I think you are on to something!" Kurumi jumped running back to the supplies the professor had put out for them to use. She came back with a few pieces of doll furniture. "It can't hurt to try right," she smiled with a mischievous grin...she loved being able to try magic.