The carriages, this was new. Beth had heard of course that they were pulled by creatures but now, right now, she highly doubted that. Mum had obviously been pulling her leg for everything that she had done over the years – all the pranks, the sassing…every little thing. Still, here she was standing in front of the line of empty carriages. Maybe she’d be lucky and get a carriage with people that she knew? Or…maybe, maybe it would be new people? New people were always nice.

Still, a part of her thought back to the little first year she had met earlier that month. Ella was probably having a riot on those boats over there – really, it was too bad she hadn’t found her on the train? She’d have told her how fun it had been for her those years before? Maybe. Maybe this would be good, fun good…y’know fun and good?

Maybe…maybe she’d run into Daniel? Where was he? Or or maybe she’d run into other friends like Chase and well everyone? She needed to just simply find a carriage and claim it as her own and then move from there. That was step one – claim a carriage.

”I’M GRABBING THAT ONE IF ANYONE WANTS TO JOIN ME” the blonde practically yelled as she took a few dramatic and bouncy steps forward. ”really, anyone can join me. Anyone.” why did that sound like a dare? It wasn’t like she was going to bite anyone – she was friendly. Very friendly, the friendliest even.

Beth’s grey eyes scanned over to the Hufflepuff girl and seemed to light up almost instantly. ”Oh! You’re in my friend Octavia’s house – hi, I don’t believe we’ve properly met…except maybe in potions class when I was being reprimanded for cleaning a cauldron with Ethanol” really, like that would have caused a big problem. Professor Noble just didn’t like fun.

Taking a moment of just looking at the girl with her ever-present grin on her face she realized that she had forgotten the key part. Introductions. ”I’m Beth – Anabeth Greyvson…Slytherin extraordinaire” because c l e a r l y she was. There was no way around that fact. Right – right other things were left out.

You can join the clearly important things.

This conversation – on her part, was going nowhere. ”you can join, obviously. C’mon up” this wasn’t awkward at all.

OH HER HAIR, Beth could help with that. ”I can help and it’ll work…its not like goat-spit or anything weird like that” why? Why had she said that – that put Coleslaw in danger? Clutching her robes closer to her she fingered the edge of the note she had to slip to Toddles and grinned.

”I went to Primpernelle’s before term and have something” she muttered before reaching into her pocket and grabbing a water wicking potion from her pocket, and a small tester vile of one of Mrs. Lexi’s possibly new creations…one of Puck's that she was using to test out on the Hogwarts kids.

”it’ll work possibly…or your hair will turn like BRIGHT violent green” she shrugged, but straight green was better than frizzy yeah? When Lex changed the topic Beth just stared…did she not want help? Still she just dropped the potions on her lap like a PRO and smiled, before furrowing her brows. ”oh…my friend Quinn last year said there were winged horses – Thestrals…but…I can’t see them, you can’t see them…apparently we can only see them if you see death and understand it?” she shrugged and bit her lip. ”Quinn’d be able to tell for sure if she were here” the thing was Quinn could have made it up.

Still, she didn’t think she made this up. This was too sacred, death was sacred, her cancer story had been sacred.