"I don't know what I mean," she answered truthfully, wiping a fallen tear away with the back of her hand. How could she explain something she didn't understand herself? "Just look..." she said, thrusting her brush into Grace's lap. "It's like it's falling out or something," she said. Granted, there were only a few extra, stray pieces of hair than there normal would but SHE could tell the difference. "And they look so lifeless..." she whimpered, not caring how vain she sounded.

Maybe there was something in the water here at Hogwarts. Or the air? The food? Whatever it was, it was so NOT COOL!

"Is it noticeable?" she asked, leaning her head down so that Grace could get a good look for herself.

"Oh bestie" Grace sighed, her food forgotten, as she shuffled closer to her friend.d She hated seeing Ava upset. It made her feel upset. She frowned, taking the brush from her friend, and looking at it/ She couldn't really tell any difference. It just looked like Ava had cleaned her brush, which was totally gross. "Ava...you're being silly." She shook her head. looking back up at her friend, and beaming brightly.

"No...Noo...." She shook her head, not really knowing what Ava was going on about. She ran her fingers through her best friend's hair. "You look lovely as usual Ava."

WHAT? Had Caleb actually sparked her interest? SUCCESS! They could all leave now.

Except that wouldn't be fulfilling their punishment. So yes, Caleb could handle a walk, and he could even handle - what was his name? GARETH? That was a weird name - as well. He was a big boy, and a Slytherin no less. This was a piece of cake.

"Sure, and of course Gareth can come with," he said with a smile. He shot the boy and friendly glance, but he was also saying If you push me in the lake it'll be the last thing you do with his eyes, just to be safe.

OOC: This is from the Hufflepuff table...

From her spot at the Hufflepuff table, Sophie overheard the latest plan. WHAT?! Why did Gareth get to come along? In Sophie's opinion, he should KEEP OUT. It wasn't really a 'date' if a third wheel tagged along. See, Sophie was here, but she wasn't HERE. Ya know?

She thought fast and decided to get to the lake before the rest of them. That way, if Tillstorm found out she was in the proximity, she could claim THEY found her instead of HER finding them.

Yup.

She hurried out the Great Hall and down to the lake.

Derry was starving. Not literally, but y'know, she'd been locked away in her own little world for longer than she had been expecting and had missed breakfast. So she was hungry. She wandered up to the Great Hall and sat at the table, shoving various bits of food onto her plate and started to eat, staring up at the ceiling and generally contemplating the inner workings of a fictional character's mind. Would they really want to use their powers of telekinesis for that..? Or would they rather keep them a secret for...y'know... privacy? The things one had to consider...

Deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerr y!

West of course was here for food, of course, he needed a lot of it after all, but hey there was a Derry and even more reason to be here see? He bounded over, his energy all UP and a big smile right there on his face, and slipped into the seat next to her at which point he attacked her with a hug.

Squishhhhhhhhhhh.

"Hey you." West detached himself and proceeded to stack a plate up with food.

Stack it high.

Derry hadn't noticed West's approach, and was too busy trying to use telekinesis to pick up her knife that she hadn't even realised he was next to her until he attack hugged her. She had an apple with a bite out of it in her hand, which with her surprise flailing flew straight up into the air as she jumped. "Asdfjkhsdjkl.." As West detached herself Derry caught the apple before it landed in her goblet and took a second to recompose herself and adjust to the real world.

"Hey." she managed after a moment. "You walk too quietly." Which was probably not true, Derry just had a talent for not noticing half of what was going on around her. "You alright?" She took another bite of her apple and eyed his plate, he always ate so much... she was impressed.

"There's my Seeker." West said with a grin when she caught the apple. He picked up a bread roll and began to butter it. Walk quietly? Did he? He wasn't TRYING to.

Oh well.

"I'm fine. Why wouldn't I be?" He saluted her with the bread roll and then bit into it.

"Good thing too, cause otherwise I'd have an orange juice flavoured sandwich and... actually that could be kinda nice." Except she wasn't going to try it. Because it could be terrible.

Why wouldn't he be? "Dunno, just wondered." She shrugged and in a few big bites finished her apple. "Everyone's been sick or... weirdly old lately."

"I think, depending on the sandwich, that could be alright. But probably less messy to just use marmalade or something similar." nod. Wouldn't want the bread to get too soggy.

He nommed his bread roll, chewed, swallowed, and tilted his head to one side.

"Well I had the sniffles for a few days?" But that was IT. His immune system was pretty solid though, it had to be something pretty full on to knock him over.

"As long as it doesn't effect our team." Shrug. Priorities.

Derry nodded, put her apple core down and picked up her sandwich. "Not sure it'd work for ham..." she observed, biting into her lunch. Omnomnomnomnom. Definitely no place for orange juice in this sandwich. West was right about the marmalade though.

Hmm... he only had the sniffles? "That's pretty good, 'specially cause 'Scanius was so bad." Even if he claimed he wasn't, she knew. Sorta. She tapped her goblet. "I've been loading up on vitamin C. For immune system stuff." she said. She'd been making Józsua eat oranges too, she wasn't having him getting sick, because y'know, lowering risks and stuff. "I think we'll be okay, being active battles most stuff, doesn't it?" Like, athletes usually lived longer so even if they did start ageing they'd be alright...

Marigold walked over to the Slytherin house table.

AND STARED AT WEST.

"I'd eat it on a dare." West said with a shrug. He had a pretty iron stomach, left over from his younger days where he'd even eat bugs just to freak people out.

Protein and all. People got squeamish about the oddest of things.

"Yeah he was. I dosed him up with stuff though, Rubbed some menthol stuff on his chest and made him take some potions." And tucked him in and stuff. Y'know, so that his mate would be all good for Quidditch.

Luckily the Slytherin boys dorm was 99 percent germ free thanks to Theo's obsessive battle against germs. It did help keep things under control.

"Vitamin C is a good idea." Yeah in fact he'd have himself some orange juice too. "Maybe I should bring back the diet regimen for Quidditch. But just maybe vitamins and whatnot, so nobody else gets sick." Couldn't have everyone dropping like flies now could they?

West poured some juice for himself, and whether he was ignoring the little Puff nearby or simply had not noticed her it was hard to tell.

she stared more.

Take her on a nice walk at the grounds? Gareth raised his eyebrows at the kid. Seriously? Was the KID trying to hit on Genie? Well...if he was than he was supposed to realise that he apparently was a KID. Too KID to be able to hit on Genie. "Easier." *snort* "Not for you." Because if there was going to be such a thing there was no doubt Gareth would be right beside them.

There was a lake on the grounds? Yeah, Garry realised that before for it was hard to miss, especially if you were to live in the Slytherin Common Room. Yet...."Bartholomew?" he repeated with a not-so-impressed expression. A giant squid was surely interesting but Bartholomew? "That's a ridiculous name for a giant squid. Ha. Well...actually, it is a ridiculous name for anything."

AAaaaand...apparently Genie wanted him to come too. Heheheh. That was a win. Sure he was coming. The Slytherin boy grinned. "Yeah. Of course, i am coming". He eyed the kid. What was that look? huh?

...hmm, "Yeah me too I guess. I doubt it'd be too bad." Right? Y'know, couldn't be worse than boiled cabbage or anything.

"Good, dinnae think he'd take it from anyone else." Accepting help never really seemed to be Ascanius' forte. "I almost spiked shortbread with pepper up... but I think it'd detract from the general... taste... thing." Yeah... gross.

Mhmm, "Yeah, mam made me take vitamins of it when I was younger. Meant I hardly ever got sick, which is good." Didn't need physical illnesses on top of everything else. "I'd be game for that, I like healthy food." Well... hearty food. And fresh food. Farm girl and totally unashamed. "Maybe start with vit's though, cause it'd be helpful, specially with everything going round at the moment."

Derry shot the girl a look, disregarded her, and went back to working through her food.

Marigold squirmed a bit at the other students' looks, but kept on staring at WEST.

Caleb shrugged. "I dunno, he's the one who introduced himself as that," he told him. Even though he'd never MET the squid, he knew quite a bit about him, just from talk around the castle. As far as he was concerned, unless he was looking for an expert on calamari, he really didn't NEED to meet him.

"Ok, then let's go. This way to the lake!" he exclaimed with a grin, jumping up and marching out of the hall dramatically for show. He wanted any eyewitnesses to see him doing this and think he was really into it, if they reported back to Tillstorm.

OOC: So everyone is out at the lake RPing for Transfiguration, so shall we just close out the RP and say he showed them the lake and they parted ways there?

"Alright then... let's go." She said excited to play with an honest to goodness squid! All she could think of was trying to get a big enough deep fryer. Calamari anyone?!

ooc: ok.

Derry was hungry, but she wasn't actually sure what she wanted to eat. So she wandered up to the Great Hall and took a seat at the Slytherin table, eyeing the food and trying to figure out what to eat. Hmm... she frowned a little and grabbed the nearest thing, taking a bite of the apple. Right, better. Eating initiated. Progress onto next level.

...

What food counted as the next level?

When Tobias shuffled into the Great Hall, laden with a box of treats sent to him by his grandmother, he hadn't actually been expecting to immediately find someone to 'help' him with his Charms homework. But then he saw Derry, over at the Slytherin table, and he grinned to himself.

Pausing to duck into the shadow of the doors to the Hall, Tobias opened up the box. There were only five or six inside; Tobias was keeping the rest of them for non-homework consumption. He knew he'd have to cast the spell on all the ones in the box, you see, and that was exactly what he was doing now.

"Sentio Somnium," Tobias cast, imagining his chosen daydream of a bouncy castle the size of the Great Hall and pointing his wand at each of the treats in turn (there was a two giant cookies, two brownies and a cupcake) and watched the purple something fall from his wand and go into each of them. He paused before casting on the last treat, a brownie, and tilted his head. Giving a shrug, he put his wand away again and took the un-magicked brownie from the box. He WAS very hungry, after all, so he was eating this one.

NOW, however, Tobias was approaching the Slytherin table, and his friend and fellow Quidditch player, Derry.

"Hi Derry!" Toby called cheerfully, his croaky voice reminding him of all this weird aging stuff. Most of his hair was now streaked with grey and... well, he tried not to think about his face. Not one to stand for very long these days, Tobias lowered himself s l o w l y onto the bench next to Derry. "Look what my grandmother sent! You should try one!"

Right to the point. First he would spike Derryth Ferrier with a nice daydream, and then they could have a nice catch-up.

Theo had woken up feeling okay today after his first good night's sleep in ages. He was still feeling a bit anxious about the upcoming game, but that happened every term. First game of the season, and all. Deciding that he needed to treat himself today for being in such a good mood, Theo made his way to the Great Hall for some lunch. A BIG lunch that would give him an excuse for a big work out later.

He needed one of those.

Obviously, he sat at the Slytherin table, which was somewhat busy, but quiet enough for him to chill for a bit. Once he was sat, he couldn't really be bothered to move, so he just slouched forwards and rested his head in his hands.

Having spent the past hour in the kitchens preparing a bakers dozen of miniature banoffee pies, the Slytherin knew exactly what he was going to do with the extras. Storing the others in a container under his bed, which was now tidy thanks to Theo's cleanliness habits, Terry withdrew his wand ready to perform the spell they had just learned in Charms to it. "Sentio Somnium" he spoke, charming only one and placing it on the left in a container.

Now he just needed to find a victim. Or someone to consume the pie rather and end up experiencing some strange effects. Heading towards the great hall was the best plan, he was bound to find a hungry Slytherin at their table. They all seemed to have quite large appetites.

And it wasn't hard to find someone. Immediately sat alone at the table the seventeen year old spotted Theo. A grin fell onto his face as he slipped into the seat next to him. "Hey" he nodded a greeting at him but then noticed his head in his hands. "You alright?" he asked slightly concerned. "Hungry?" Please say yes.

Theo spent a few minutes thinking about stuff, mainly Quidditch because that was something that was bothering him a lot lately. Especially when his favourite position was being denied from him yet again. He didn't blame West, of course, but it was still annoying. Huhhhhhhh...? Who was bothering him now? GO. AWAY.

But he did recognize the voice. Terry.

Terry had been around a lot lately. It had not gone unnoticed. He pulled his head from his hands and looked at his Slytherin bud lazily. "Peachy." Which was what Theo usually said whenever things were crappy. Awww, what happened to his good mood this morning? Never mind, it was fun whilst it lasted. Was he hungry? Errrrrrrrrrrrr... Theo was always hungry.

"Starved. Was gonna get lunch down here but... I was just being lazy." Was Terry gonna get food for him? That'd be swell.

Yeah. It definitely looked like Theo was in the greatest of moods. So cheerful.

Not.

Terry raised his brow but decided not to question it anymore, just in case it was something he didn't want to discuss. But he definitely had something that would be able to cheer him up. Who didn't love a good pudding? People who clearly needed help, obviously. And banoffee was one of the greatest out there, even if he did say so himself.

Too lazy to pick up a plate and fill it with food? "There's no amount of laziness that can stop me satisfying my stomach" he chuckled, taking out the right banoffee pie and placing it down on his plate. "Luckily for you I have made more than enough of these" he shoved the left one on another plate and slid it across to his friend.

He resisted the urge to smirk as he thought about what would happen next. Surely the food would bring his mood up but a daydream would make him feel even better right? The ones he'd experienced in Charms class certainly were and Terry was 100% sure he had performed the spell accurately. Now just to sit and wait.