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[sistercest]

[The script is painfully neat and elegant, the handwriting slightly slanted. Each word is a bit slow in coming. Deliberate.]At the risk of sounding trite, it seems I have missed a great deal. It serves as a testament to the strength of those traversing these halls that education still continues, despite all...interruptions

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[cryptidwizard]

[another slytherin? boo. hiss.]

You'd rather be here than at home?

[sistercest]

I would, yes. My home environment is strained: my sister has been ill since infancy and my parents are often stressed and worried over her.

[The handwriting shows up faster now, heavier-handed.] ...I did not think finding school to be a reprieve from watching my sister suffer would be unusual.

[cryptidwizard]

I. Oh. Um, man, I'm sorry, that really-that's awful.

But that's what family is for, right? You're supposed to be there for each other when bad stuff happens. I can see why they're worried. I don't know what I would do if anyone in my family got sick like that.

[veiledviper]

Ah, it's quite fine. You had no way of knowing, mister...? [She trails off on this -- expecting a response on the name.]

Indeed. It is sometimes...difficult, however, to remain optimistic in such trying circumstances, you understand. I am happy you have not been afflicted with such misfortune; I would not wish such a thing on anyone.

[cryptidwizard]

Um. Zak. Zak Saturday.

And yeah. I understand.

[ya_ha_hiruma]

[What's wrong with Slytherins]

[cryptidwizard]

[Well, for one, they're apparently terrible at getting house points.

BURN.]

[ya_ha_hiruma]

[Wait--.. There are students who actually care about house points? Foreign concept!]

[cryptidwizard]

[He's eleven. House Cup = pinnacle of existence. XD]

[ya_ha_hiruma]

[Poor slub