Late night at the owlery (open)

[Madame Minka Davinmir]

Minka slipped out of her chambers and was careful not to make a sound. With her long black cloak draped over her head, she slipped down the staircases and through the castle's corridors until she stepped into the cold fall air. Her breath colessed into silky fog in the night.

She made her journey to the owlery, her footsteps crunching through the frosted grass of the school grounds until she finally made it. Using one of the school owls, she tucked the rolled piece of parchment which she pulled from the inside of her cloak into the barn owl's small leather pouch.

"To London, The Royal House Guardz Thistle Hotel, 2 Whitehall crezcent, Room 303 and be qwuick about it... Go." She whispered to the owl before it took flight into the night sky.

When the deed was done, she pulled the hood up on her cloak again and began to make her way back to the castle.

[Neoma Tsylence]

Skipping along, the small Hufflepuff girl was beaming with a sealed letter in hand. She skipped and hopped up the hill and stairs to the owlery, eager to send a thank you note to her parents.

On her way there, she saw an owl soaring into the horizon towards london. She was too busy staring at the bird that when she looked back at where she was going, her eyes widened as she was headed for a collision course with a hooded individual. She tried to put the breaks on but feared she run headlong into the person.

[Madame Minka Davinmir]

The figure stopped and turned on her heal when the student nearly ran into her. She pulled down the hood on her cloak to reveal Neoma's head of house. She slapped a hand on Neoma's shoulder and turned her around.

"Halt! Zhere, you- Vhat are you doing out past curfew? Explain yourrrself at vonce!" Minka was angered to find a student out of bed, and even more angered to find that it was one of her house.

[Neoma Tsylence]

Neoma froze stiff and her eyes widened as her breath caught in her throat. The hooded figure spoke at her accusingly and Neoma was indeed very frightened. She couldn't find her voice, and she tripped on her own feet and fell to the ground.

She swallowed as she stared up at the figure, and still could not find words to say aloud. What would the woman do to her, she couldn't even remember why it was that she was out so late.

[Madame Minka Davinmir]

"Vell? Come on, now. Get up." She offered a hand to help Neoma up. "Itz the middle of night. Vhy aren't you in bed? Letters can wait till mornink." Of course this sounded a little hypocritical since Minka was obviously sending out a letter of her own.

[Neoma Tsylence]

Neoma hesitated, but she took the hand of her Head of House, only to snatch it back close to her body once she was standing up on her own. She could tell it was the Divination Professor now, she didn't know why she didn't pick up the thick accent beforehand. Neoma stared at her feet, her letter in her hand behind her back.

"I--I'm sorry Professor. I'll go...go back to the Comman R-Room now."[/color] Neoma took a couple steps back as she tried to make a discreet getaway.

[Madame Minka Davinmir]

Minka noticed Neoma trying to slowly slink away. "If you run, you'll only make thinkz vorse... Vell since you made it all the vay out here to earn yourself detention, you mind as vell send yourr letter." She motioned to the owlery... "Make it quwvick. I should be deducting house points, but Hufflepuff is loozing badly at this silly house cup business, I'm not going to bother..."

[Neoma Tsylence]

"Yes Ma'am. Thank y-you, Ma'a-am." Neoma began to slink around the Professor, closer to the side of the Owelry. She quickly turned and began her first few steps toward the tower that housed the school's owls.

She didn't know why she stopped, but she did. She painfully turned around and was still staring at the stone around her feet.

"Miss, could I ask. Could I ask why it is that you are up so late?"[/color] Her tone could be taken accusingly, but Neoma actually meant to inquire if there was any reason that professors were supposedly patrolling this late at night. Was there something dangerous roaming around... something that could... get them?

[Madame Minka Davinmir]

"I vas also sending letter. It's personal, it needed to be sent right avay." She shooed Neoma towards the Owlery. "Go..."

[Neoma Tsylence]

Neoma nodded hastily before scurrying off and up the stairs into the tower, her letter clenched tightly in her hands. She quickly found an owl and sent off her letter to her parents. She was not as quite when she exited the tower, hopping that perhaps the Professor had retired to the night so that Neoma could return to the Common Room without being heckled.

[Madame Minka Davinmir]

When Neoma returned from the tower she followed her and escorted her back to the Hufflepuff dorms. "I know you are new here- but you can't just get up and leave in the middle of the night when it pleases you. If it was emergency, Minka could have sent letter for you."