Miles returned to Hogwarts like a tornado on speed. It was really, really good to be back here. At least in Hogwarts, he didn't have to pretend to be the slightly psychotic space admiral or the dutiful young Barrayaran officer. He could just be Miles, because nobody here cared about who he was supposed to be on any given day
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She blew past Miles at top speed, but then screeched to a halt twenty feet away, ran right back and screeched to a halt again right beside Miles, staring at the top of his head intently. "No way!" She peered down at his feet, half expecting him to be kneeling and putting her on. "I must have gotten taller overnight!"
((Miles has blanket permission to smack her upside the head at any time, by the way.))
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He shook his head. "No," he answered, quirking a grin at her. "You didn't get taller." The smile became a smirk. "I'm just a a product of a Beta Colony genetic experiment..." he paused for effect and then finished dramatically, "gone horribly, horribly wrong."
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Tomo's face fell. "I didn't? Aw, not fair!" She blinked, looking him up and down again. "Hey, what's so horrible about being short?"
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Or she was, at least, until one of the pots of paint slipped off the precarious pile and exploded on the floor like a little bomb, the cheap plastic splitting its seams and spraying neon turquoise everywhere.
"...Da'mit," she muttered, around the paintbrush. This was going to be...interesting. She looked at the paint, and her tottering pile of stuff, and at Miles, and sighed, setting down her box and spitting out the paintbrush. "I was doing so well until now, too. I don't suppose 'scourgify' would work on acrylic paint, would it?" So far as she knew, nothing got that stuff out.
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Miles, however, did not draw these comparisons when the older man accosted him. He just took in the proud bearing and stiff-necked posture and reflexively saluted. "Hello, sir," he answered, half expecting the man to start giving him orders. Because he was definitely dealing with another military man.
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"I am Eddard Stark," he said simply. "I am called Ned. How might you be called, ser?"
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