The Stone Gargoyles
 

...Eden for once wasn't nervous to speak to the headmistress. Even EVEN EVEN if she was sassy the last time they interacted, it was okay? Right? RIGHT?

The Ravenclaw waited...and...wondered if she should just...wait to be told to go in? She had important and SERIOUS matters to discuss, after all. Her Quill article had prompted this discussion, it had.

And Eden thought it was about TIME she ask the headmistress...about....THINGS.

She tried her best to straighten her hair and de-crinkle her skirt as she rocked back and forth on the balls of her feet. Here she went. HERE SHE WAS. Ahem. Were her eyes very baggy? She probably looked tired because she and Cole had stayed up studying like.......really late.

Eden hugged her backpack to her chest and sighed.

BUNZ???

Eden heard the shoe clacking before she saw the show of red hair....all of which belonged to Truebridge, of course. She took a deep breath and tried to smile...as best she could? while also not looking TOO smiley. Like. Professional smile thing.

"Oh...I had TWO--" and Eden held up two fingers, as if Bunz couldn't count, and then quickly lowered them because...because that was embarrassing. SHE DIDN'T WANT TRUEBRIDGE TO THINK SHE COULDN'T COUNT. "Two things I wanted to talk to you about? Both of the UPMOST importance, Headmistress ma'am...your highness?"

Ahem.

Anyways.

next post: zeh office
 

He wasn't his usual chipper self, Cutty Mordaunt wasn't. But that was a thin veneer he was mentally strengthening by the minute. He clutched a small, flat photo to his chest and lightly leaned his head up to one of the stone gargoyles. He did not have the password, but he'd wait for the Headmistresses to either come or go from her office as it was bound to happen sometime.

separate timelines of course
 

There was his lovely Headmistress looking as regal and as pink as ever. He had from a very young age admired the fearless way in which she wielded power. That hadn't changed. She was clearly on her way to somewhere, though. Best to make this quick. Say what you got to say, Mordaunt.

"Two things. Permission to enter Greenhouse four for personal study." He said stepping to the side of the stone Gargoyle to give her clear way to the floor and so that he could walk with her. What he had as a bit personal, but not necessarily to him. He waited until she was at the bottom of the staircase, feet firmly on the ground. "And a concern over this." He said, handing the photo he clutched over to his Headmistress. It showed a student, one, Eden McGee in a compromising pose though by the look on her face any issue of being compromised was certainly not acknowledged.

"We're not together." He said wedging a piece of information he didn't expect Truebridge to be up on. Student's personal lives, blah, blah, blah. Who cared. But..."Perhaps, she thinks it a cute way to flirt, booht I find it..." He found it piggish, but he did not want to appear as though he hated Eden. "Well, I'm afraid of what could happen to her if she does this to all of the male students she wants attention from." And Eden was the kind of girl who would. At least, according to Cutty.

"I would've told Mr. Kitridge, but I think it's better if I told yer. If he had to confiscate the photo someone could find it on him and it could compromise him, yer see. So I thought yew'd be the one to tell." He explained.

"The flesh eating fairy orchid." He answered quickly, realizing the conversation was progressing as was their motion. He liked harvesting their resin for potions uses. Professor Bentley had taught them they were useful for alleviating stomach problems and he wanted to see what else, if anything, they could do.

His long, monkey-like fingers gripped the photo securely once more as the Headmistress handed it back to him. He listened to what she was saying about Kitridge and Tanner and he considered telling them both as well. Although the photos, they should go to the highest authority and in this case, that was the Headmistress.

"No, there are more." He said placing the photo firmly into the peaches 'n cream palms of Truebridge. "I threw the first one into the bin, booht the others are bach in me common room."

Ahem....apologies for him >.O
 

separate timeline from Cutty (obvs)
 

Well it was darn well about time. Despite the time.

Truth be told it was a relief that Truebridge was in at all. Sabel took the stairs two at a time. The thought tickled the back of his mind that maybe it wasn't Truebridge after all.

"It produces a resin that can be very useful in potions, especially those that aid in digestion." That was what Professor Bentley had taught them that time they dealt with them, supervised of course, in the greenhouses before she left. He wanted to study the uses further and where that might have sounded academic, Headmistress Truebridge was already asking too many questions.

He listened. He was going to have to present in front of Professor Tanner. Alright. He could do that. Cutty nodded obediently and turned to go back toward the dungeons to fetch the photos.

Adi ran all the way from the Forest to the Headmistresses Office with Beverly. It was a good thing he was in shape, yo! Never the less, he was panting and there was a bit of sweat around his forehead which he brushed impatiently away.

"You don't by chance know her password, do you?'' he asked Bev as he surveyed the hideous gargoyles. "This is an emergency,'' he told the things impatiently. "So could you jump aside or something?" For safety measures, the Hufflepuff rapped smartly with his left knuckle on the wall or whatever it was.

He hoped Professor Headmistress was there.

Coming to a stop at the gargoyles, Beverly held her side. Merlin. She needed to get cardio back into her workout. Maybe eat less sweets. Even if sweets were the greatest. Maybe tone it down on the pizza consumption. Even if it tempted her. Maybe she should get a move on and help with the password.

Right.

"Has to be something important." You know, the way passwords tended to be. "What's her ugly cat's name? Gingerface?" Seeing as the gargoyles didn't react to that, she grunted at them.

"Headmistress!" She called, doubting she'd be heard. Normally she'd just...stay cool, but Professor Culloden and Thompson were out there and they needed BACKUP. "There's things going on in the Forbidden Forrest!"

They were creating a ruckus. Yes, they were and Adi did not care right now. Lives depended on how fast him and Beverly were. And of course, how fast Truebridge got there. "Gingersnapple, I think,'' the Hufflepuff corrected his fellow prefect.

SLAP, SLAP, SLAP went his hand against every free space he could find. "Professor Headmistress!'' Oh, there she was! Thank the Hippogriffs! "Professors Culloden and Thompson went into the Forest looking for the Groundskeeper and Henry the Hippogriff after something scared the other Hippogriffs and Henry ran off,'' he rattled, trying to explain it all to the Headmistress in a nutshell as he went, went, went as she wanted them to do. "We heard this cry or shriek or something in the Forest but we're not sure what caused it. Toby and Sophie were with us but they went to get Professor Dakest since there was a barrier that wouldn't allow the students to go into the Forest.'' WHY? They were ALL seventeen! And was he leaving out anything? Bev could fill it in if he had.

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Dunno if Lancelot is still there or not? ;-)