"Come on in, Dante. There's plenty of room!" Thornton moved to the side to give Dante room to get in the bag.

This was going to be interesting.

Whoa Thornton was actually going to do it. That was impressive.

Crazy Claw.

Dante was all set to watch this and smile because it was awesome. But then he heard Flamsteed's suggestion and had to think about it. Since he did tell Thornton to do it. He should at least have the....yeah to go along with it.

"Sure, Why Not"

Dante said shrugging. He waited for Thornton to make room in the bag. This bag was a tank for not breaking yet. So here Dante goes. He stepped into the bag and yeah it was definitely a weird feeling. He shimmied on down to just his head as basically visible. "Now this is weird and fascinating"


Still something he would never even imagined doing at home. So points to you Hogwarts.

"Locked and Loaded...I mean ready Professor"

You know what this looked like? It looked like the set up to a stellar joke. No, seriously. It really did, which was why the astronomer was just standing there holding on to the bag with a goofy grin on his face while chuckling from time to time. Probably quite terrifying to look at really.

"Alright then....initiating countdown to lift off ... 10.....9 ....8..." Never mind. That was taking too long. He should have just started at 3. " 7654....3...2...1...UUUUUUUUUP we go!"

Bending at the knees, the astronomer picked the bag up with a little more haste than he had anticipated - momentarily forgot about the whole no additional weight effects of the enchantment - and stumbled backwards a step or two.

"Whoops, sorry there," he chuckled as he gave the two a salute. "Allow me to take this opportunity to thank you both for allowing me to cross off not one, but two things off my life's bucket list. In fact, 4 points each." And with another salute he lowered the bag back down to the floor.

Thornton stumbled as the bag was lifted up and he opted to sit down, lest he completely knock Dante over. The sensation was odd, being carried inside a bag had the feeling of being lifted, but none of the visual stimuli of a change. Thornton found it dizzying.

But quickly, they were back on the ground.

Standing, he considered how exactly he might get out. The lip of the bag was too high to simply push himself out - he didn't have the upper body strength. Maybe he should tip the bag and crawl out? That could end badly.

He looked to Dante and then up at the Professor. "That was fun, but, uh, how do we get out?"

Zahra's new favorite place - the tapestry with trolls in tutus. She'd really, really failed to read up and become a troll expert, but Z had no less appreciate for big beasts. So, here Zahra was again, eying the tapestry, hopping around in front of it, hanging out alone.

Eden was attempting to go back to her common room. Attempting. But she had her potions book open, trying to grasp what she had done wrong in the last lesson--thus almost KILLING Toby, probably--and not paying attention to where the heck she was going..

Ooops.

She could HEAR shuffling ahead--and Eden's big blue eyes looked up-------

Zahra. Kettleburn. Gryffindor. Eden didn't KNOW here year-but if she DID it would be inserted after the Gryffindor part. She just raised an eyebrow at the girl hopping and siiiighed. Hopping was fun. Hopping was EXERCISE. Eden tucked her book under her arm and tilted her head--she was torn between wanting to hop with her and wanting to ask WHY the heck she was hopping. Did the girl want to be in the painting? With the trolls?

SIGH.

Eden had to do it--she JUMPED right next to Zahra and HOPPED in sync with her--MERLIN-

Karate KICK INITIATED! BOOM! INTRUDER! KICK! POW! WHO WAS SNEAKING UP ON Z IN THE HALL? ANOTHER TROLL!?!?

If only.

Zahra didn't really kick ... the Ravenclaw. Tempting as THAT was, Zahra just ... kicked at her. Hehe. "Did you come for a FIGHT, CLAW?"

WHOAH HELLO. Eden HOPPED back and EYED the lion so.....INCREDULOUSLY.

MERLIN'S SOCKS.

"What--no--I was hopping WITH you--not AGAINST you--Merlin, Zahra--" she said, squinting at the crazy loonyTOON. "God--" she glared for a minute at her. "Why would I want to fight you?" she asked suspiciously. Should she want to fight Zahra?! SHOULD SHE?

She sloooowly approached the girl again--slowly. In case she was kicked at again.

Shrug. Dunno, don't care.

Why was she hopping with her? See, not only Claws could ask stupid, non-stop questions.

...hehehe

When Eden approached her again, Zahra jumped AT HER! SURPRISE. CATCH!

Eden HOPPED back in surprise---SCREAMED--and fell. ON her bum. OUCH. Her heart was POUNDING in her chest because of THAT little number--

The Ravenclaw grumbled to herself before looking up at Zahra. "Merlin. You're crazy--" she said in a grumpy voice--before attempting to stand once more. "You broke my butt." She raised an eyebrow--because OUCH--see? IT HURT TO TRY TO STAND NOW.

"And when you go to jail I hope they write that you're a butt breaker on your name--that's the worst kind of crime--" she said, trying her best to sound completely serious right now. And knowledgable.

If that was meant to sound like a bad thing, then... fail. "BUTT BREAKER KETTLEBURN. Yeah, that's pretty cool." Zahra didn't know the Claw was so unstable though. She was supposed to CATCH Z, not fall down. Man. Can't depend on Claws for anything.

Z did try to give her a hand up though.

"I probably won't go to jail though. I mean, I didn't actually do anything. You're the one creeping on people and keeling over all weird-like." Just saying.

Eden could have rolled her eyes right out of her head. MERLIN. "Butt breaker Kettleburn." It actually did sound cool. Ugh. Eden had inadvertently given her a baddddddd nickname--but like bad in a good way. Because that made total sense.

"You're right. You won't go to jail--" SIGH. She was standing, though, and rubbing her bum. "I was trying to be a hopping buddy. Build comrade-ery. You know. Like. Friends." AHEM. She raised an eyebrow slowly at Zahra. "Do you even know my name? I know YOURS." So Zahra should in return know EDEN'S.

If she didn't - RUDE.

At this point Zander was starting to get kind of frustrated. How come finding a sock was so darn difficult? It shouldn't be this hard. Like, how many unpaired socks could possibly be lying around partnerless this high up in the castle? Was it possible that he was holding his map upside down or something? That maybe he asked the crystal wrong?

.... Looking around this side of the corridor, Zander decided to pop his head around the different corners, before turning to the portrait. "Have you seen a sock around here?" But of course they hadn't. So that was pointless.

Standing in front of the funny looking painting, Zander took out his map once again, this time actually having to dig around his bag due to the unnecessary amount of socks he had managed to accio over (none of them even being the sock that he was looking for to begin with!!).

Okay... There was definitely no mistake with the map. There couldn't possibly be.

Alexa didn't have time for the crystal, not when you could only ask 'yes' or 'no' questions and she was in a rush. What was she gonna do, sit and ask location by location until she finally got a yes? By then Felix would have surely moved on to somewhere else and she wouldn't be any closer to finding him. She'd admit it proved of some use, back when she asked it whether or not her kneazle was inside the castle. The yes was reassuring...unless the crystal considered the owlery an active part of the school. That was another depressing story in itself.

Feeling she'd been set in the right direction, the Gryffindor figuring she knew where she was meant to be looking just had to get there. There was hardly any caution to search taken as she approached the statue of Barnabus the Barmy. He wasn't here, the crystal didn't have to tell her as much.

Inside the castle, yup...though that was still a lot of ground to cover...Reluctantly, Alexa lifted the crystal on it's string. "Is he on the 7th floor?" Because there was still one other place and it was a LONG walk down. Lex watched and waited until finally movement...in the shape of a circle. Yup! Definitely knew where he was now and the Gryffindor put a little more pep in her step.

Most likely he was sitting there waiting right where she thought he was.