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Cool Waters

May 20, 2006 14:59

Week Name / Date / Time: "Promises and Plans" / Saturday, October 15th, 12:00pm
Location: The Lake
Open To: Anyone
Currently Involving: Gabriella McGregor, Will Sparrow

( The coldness of the water cut through her warming charm... )

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williamsparrow May 20 2006, 20:01:57 UTC

There was another individual who'd chosen a breath of fresh air over the crowded and noisy atmosphere of the Great Hall at lunchtime. Then again, Will usually saved eating til he was truly hungry, and then all that was required was a discreet visit to the kitchens. The house elves didn't seem to mind having something extra to do, really ( ... )

glorious_sadism May 20 2006, 22:15:07 UTC

Spooked by the sudden voice, Gabriella whirled, crouching with one hand on the ground as if she was ready to spring. The towel was draped around her shoulders, toes and fingers hooked and clinging to the wet rock, and her upper lip curled slightly back from her teeth in a snarl. Upon seeing Will, whom she only distantly recognized as member of her own house, she straightened slowly.

"I'm fine," she said simply, letting the towel fall into one hand and rotating the wrist almost lazily as the fabric began to twist slowly into a spiral. "Can I help you?" she wondered darkly.

williamsparrow May 20 2006, 22:31:08 UTC

"Ah, sorry! Didn't mean to startle you." Upon seeing her rather hostile initial reaction to his approach, he raised his hands slowly, as though to reassure her he meant her no harm. Geez, but kids were jumpy nowadays...

"Just...not that often I see people out here during lunchtime. Everyone's usually inside..."

He'd almost said 'with their friends', but he rather got the impression this would be the wrong thing to say to this particular little girl.

"Out swimming, huh?" he added, upon a second glance at the girl, before grinning faintly and turning his attention back to the calm, black water. "Not too long, and it's going to be too cold to...it's a pity."

glorious_sadism May 20 2006, 22:36:49 UTC

She glanced briefly at the water, but kept her eyes on him. "I'm working on my warming charms and resistance charms," she said somewhat tightly. Her voice bore a mild scottish burr. "If inside is the place to be, why aren't you there?" She realized immedietly after asking the question that it was something of a case of the pot and kettle, so to speak - one could just as easily ask why she was out here in the cold air and colder water trying to push herself to a faster repeat when she should be eating with the other first years. She'd made an aquaintence or two in Slytherin and a couple of the other houses, though she felt it would be too hasty to call them 'friends'. However, most of the Slytherin upperclassmen weren't terribly fond of her. Outspoken disdain for Voldemort did that. She had ascertained that if she had been staunchly anti-Death Eater for moral reasons, they wouldn't have minded as much, but her opinion was more difficult to reconcile. She believed that Voldemort was an idiot and a failure, and that those who ( ... )

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