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Post by Keladry Lindenshield on Mar 12, 2008 21:25:51 GMT -5
Kel stood before the Fat Lady's portrait, deliberating. She was trying to decide whether to knock on the painting, which the lady occcupying the frame might not appreciate, or wait until someone came out and ask them to find Lilianne. She had been standing there for a rather long time, and the Fat Lady, who had been steadily ignoring her as she had raised her hand to knock, lowered it, bitten her lip, raised it again, paced a bit, went up as if to try to knock again, leaned against the wall beside the portly oil-based woman and then returned to her original position right in front of the gold-framed portrait.
Finally the large lady turned to her and snapped "Oh really! Are you going to stand there all day?" Kel jumped about a foot in the air, her hand immediately flying up to the wand in her hair. Quickly she realized who was talking to her, and her hand returned to fiddling with a loose thread on the side of her pants as her mouth popped open to reply.
"I will stand here as long as it takes for someone to come out." Kel, annoyed after her long wait in the cold corridor, added slightly impertinently, "Or would you like me to knock on your ladyship?"
The picture huffed for a minute, then went back to pretending not to be looking at Kel. The Hufflepuff sighed roughly and wondered if she could just pry the door open.
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Post by Lilianne Wesker on Mar 15, 2008 10:01:17 GMT -5
[OOC: I'm gonna use some nameless npcs, because it would be too much of a coincidence that I'm the one that gets out first ]Not long after Kel conversed with the Fat Lady, her portrait swung open to let three students out. The girls looked to be in their fourth or fifth year. They almost didn't notice Keladry as they went on their way, chatting loudly, but one of them stopped as she saw Keladry standing there. "Oh, hello! Are you lost?"
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Post by Keladry Lindenshield on Mar 15, 2008 15:34:56 GMT -5
Kel had jumped out of the way when the Fat Lady had swung forward, and she smiled thankfully at the girl who had addressed her.
"Oh, no, I'm trying to find my friend Lilianne. . . would it be too much to ask if you could pop inside and find her?" Kel asked hesitantly. She didn't want to force the Gryffindor to do something, but she really did want to find Lilianne. She smiled again, hoping the older student would do it.
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Post by Lilianne Wesker on Mar 20, 2008 6:25:22 GMT -5
"Oh, you're a friend of Lilianne? Good that you're here, maybe you can shake her out of her lethargy... Sure, I'll get her for you. Just a minute, guys!" The girl said with a wave to her friends before she went back through the portrait hole.
After a bit of time, the Fat Lady swung open again ("Oh sure, I didn't have anything better to do that spin around today!") and the girl stepped out again, a hand on Lilianne's shoulder.
The girl waved at the first years before she rejoined her waiting friends and they left, back to their loud chattering.
Lilianne was holding her hedgehog in her arms. She looked very tired as she walked up to Keladry, her sunken eyes indicating that she hadn't had a lot of sleep lately.
She also looked very nervous, and she kept shifting her sight to her sides.
"Oh, Hi, Kel! I'd been worried about you... I didn't see what happened to you in the Great Hall and I hadn't heard from you either... Are you okay? Did you get hurt?"
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Post by Keladry Lindenshield on Mar 20, 2008 17:16:16 GMT -5
Kel beamed at seeing Lilianne, though the shy Gryffindor didn't seem to be at her best.
"Well, I haven't been in the Great Hall a for meals a lot because. . . I dunno. There's been some different things. I felt crappy for a while because I caught a cold from tramping around in pajamas. . . I helped Anne Hall, Lisa Wheary and Rose Ogden with their studying and showed them how to enchant their drawings to move. . . I've been doing a lot." Kel seemed almost surprised, now that she realized it, that she had been spending so much time with her House-mates and had forgotten Lilianne!
Kel apologetically said "I was so wrapped up with the attacks for the longest time, and then I was doing so much with Anne (she's really good at drawing people, but she wanted to be able to draw realistic backgrounds for her portraits), and Lisa and Rose are both Muggleborns, and they wanted their photos to move like normal ones, so I looked it up and we worked on it a lot. . . I totally forgot about you! I am so sorry, Lilianne! It totally slipped my mind that Isabelle was attacked. . . you must have been so worried. . . oh. . ." Kel trailed off, looking at her shoes, around which Tiria had curled after appearing seemingly out of nowhere as she frequently did. She kept a close eye (and constantly paw!) on Kel after she learned Kel had been in danger from larger felines.
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Post by Lilianne Wesker on Mar 22, 2008 14:01:26 GMT -5
Lilianne let out a shy laugh. "Don't worry about it... I've been spending most of my time either at the hospital wing, or back in the common room. I studied a bit, played with Dinsdale... I hope class starts back soon, people are getting restless cooped up in there so long..."
"You missed my parents though, they visited the day after... you know. I'd have loved to introduce you, but I wasn't sure we were allowed to visit other houses..."
Lilianne looked around them nervously again.
"Should we go somewhere? I'm not sure we're allowed to stay alone in the hallways, and I don't think I can bring you in our common room..."
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Post by Keladry Lindenshield on Mar 22, 2008 18:27:35 GMT -5
Kel smiled in relief that Lilianne didn't seem to bitter about Kel's notable absence in her time of need.
"Yeah, that would a good idea. Plus, it's kinda chilly." Kel rubbed her arms as a cool draft blew down the hallway.
"Maybe we could go to the library. . . ?" Kel thought aloud. "Unless you can think of something better. I mean, it's probably the best place at the time. . ." She looked to Lilianne questioningly. "What d'you think?"
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Post by Lilianne Wesker on Mar 23, 2008 18:20:46 GMT -5
"It's all right...", said Lilianne, and she took a few steps forward before she stopped, and looked around.
"Hum, what did you want to do? Should I bring anything?", she said awkwardly.
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Post by Keladry Lindenshield on Mar 23, 2008 19:30:17 GMT -5
This question seemed to stump Kel for a moment.
"Um. . . well, I just sorta thought we'd. . . you know. . . hang out, or something. Maybe read a bit, talk a tad. . . grab some vittles from the kitchen. . . sumthin' like that!" Kel, happy with her not-exactly-well-thought-out plan, adjusted her bag's strap slightly, tucked a loose strand of hair behind her ear and pushed her wand a bit farther into the messy bun a bit above the nape of her neck. She grinned expectantly at Lilianne.
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Post by Lilianne Wesker on Mar 24, 2008 8:04:38 GMT -5
"Hum, okay then, I'll go get my bag, it won't be long, it already has most of my things in it... I'll be right back." Lilianne said, before passing through the indignant Fat Lady, and coming back out a minute later with her bag on her back.
Dinsdale was back in his favorite spot inside the hood of Lilianne's cloak.
"Let's go..." Lilianne said, her voice betraying a certain unease. She took her wand out of her robes and kept close to Keladry, constantly looking around them as they went.
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Post by Keladry Lindenshield on Mar 24, 2008 18:35:48 GMT -5
Kel, seemingly unworried about the possible presence of man-eating panthers in the school, strode through the halls whistling jauntily.
She glanced at Lilianne. "So, the library sound good? I mean, I just thought we'd talk, hang out. . . that sort o' thing."
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Post by Lilianne Wesker on Mar 27, 2008 8:06:32 GMT -5
Lilianne jumped slightly when Keladry adressed her again.
She looked embarassed for a second before she composed herself.
"It... it sound great to me."
Lilianne was silent for a while, her senses still on alert. After a while she attempted to break the silence in an effort to get her mind off her worries.
"So hum... Have you finished that essay on Devil's Snare for Herbology? I just finished it this morning. It a bit longer than what Professor Longbottom asked, I hope he doesn't mind..."
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Post by Keladry Lindenshield on Mar 27, 2008 17:27:02 GMT -5
Kel, sensing Lilianne's discomfort, jumped headfirst into the topic.
"Well, I'm almost done, but I spent so long in the library researching so it would be perfect! I swear, I looked backward and forward through every book with any mention of anything to do with plants, making sure I had everything possible in my essay. I'm actually going to edit it and take out all the random crap that ended up in there. I mean, now that I know everything about the darn plant, I can take out all the useless stuff I wrote when I didn't!"
Kel sighed blissfully, then added almost jokingly,
"Learning is so fun."
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Post by Lilianne Wesker on Mar 30, 2008 8:13:12 GMT -5
Lilianne smiled and chuckled lightly. "It looks like you'll be getting perfect grades on that report... You know, I'm sure Professor Longbottom wasn't expecting to get such thorough essays, but with the unexpected time extention... Some older Gryffindors have been telling me stories about their experiences with Devil's Snare, so I added a few extra paragraphs on the dangers of manipulating it. I hope Professor Longbottom doesn't mind..."
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Post by Keladry Lindenshield on Mar 30, 2008 21:56:29 GMT -5
Kel, feeling slightly triumphant at getting Lilianne (Lilianne, of all people! Quite an accomplishment) to speak in paragraphs instead of sentences, smiled and quickly agreed.
"I'm sure he won't mind that you're learning. . . he might find it hard to read all the essays, though. Everyone I know has actually been working on schoolwork, partly because there's nothing else to do and partly because they have the time to do it right. It's kinda weird, really. . . I think I thought it would feel like a vacation, but everyone seems really motivated toward learning and working on schoolwork. It seems like everyone's studying and reading up on subjects they've never been interested in before. Kinda weird, but kinda cool!"
'Now I'm the one who's jabbering on. Huh.'
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