Hogmeade Log

[hdmaster_cid]

Name(s): OPEN TO ALL!
Location: Hogmeade; various.
Week: 60
Time: Saturday. (Feel free to start logging whenever.)
Rating: Just keep it below R, people. Remember it is a shared log.

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High Street, Alyss and Kyp

[misplacedqueen]

What a strange week this had turned out to be, especially with the arrival of her new companion, a large stag who called himself Rannoch. And since Alyss felt that she had been keeping herself entirely too cooped up within the walls of the castle, her and Rannoch were now surveying the area of Hogsmeade. After all, she had all the opportunity to enjoy her freedom while the others were still back in Wonderland. It was best to not waste it.

The stores do not interest you?

Alyss tilted her head, resting her hand on the deer's side. "No, I want to enjoy the day a little more. Besides..." She pursed her lips, smiling a little bit. "I don't think you'd fit through some of the doorways. Not with those antlers."

[sun_ofagun]

Something really had to be done about the Shuckle.

How the thing had managed to Apparate to Hogsmeade with him, Kyp really didn't know. He wasn't sure he wanted to.

I could eat it, if you wanted.

And then there was the coyote that had appeared the moment the castle was in his sights. Kyp had grown accustomed to the fact that sometimes strange and unusual things happened at Hogwarts, but being greeted with what was apparently a feminine manifestation of his soul (called Carida, because apparently he was big on the masochism thing) upon arriving back at the school had not really been something he had expected or wanted.

"Don't eat it, you don't know where it's been," he pointed out, knowing as well as the animal did that it wasn't about to eat the oversized turtle.

"Shucks!"

There was a pause as Kyp stared incredulously at the Pokemon that couldn't even pronounce its own breed correctly, before shaking his head and continuing through the town, capes (both of them) swirling belatedly after.

[misplacedqueen]

The sight was literally too outrageous not to notice, as Kyp came trudging through. A coyote and a Pokemon (she recognized that at least) trotting at his side. Two capes this time. Was the one just not enough for him? Alyss stopped in her tracks, eyes wide at the sight of him.

And not because he had mysteriously just popped back up after disappearing.

It was because he looked so ridiculous.

Next to her, Rannoch made a snorting sound, as both woman and daemon stared at the man. Alyss lifted her hand to her mouth, hoping to hold back her laughter that was ready to burst out.

You find him attractive.

Alyss also hoped that nobody would see the slight blush on her face.

[sun_ofagun]

The snort drew his attention, and the sight of Alyss Heart standing nearby with a stag next to her.

"So you weren't lying, then," he murmured to the animal strolling alongside him.

Her tongue lolled out, amused. Would I do that?

"Yes."

Alyss might have been hoping that her blush would go unnoticed, but this was Kyp. He grinned at her, dropping an easy wink as if he hadn't just been absent for a month. "Sir Durron," he greeted with a nod.

"Shucks!"

[misplacedqueen]

He's not like Dodge. Rannoch gently took the sleeve of her dress in his teeth to give a tug. For a moment, a pang of guilt flashed through Alyss, remembering her childhood friend. It would take her soul to remind verbally her of such things.

Alyss narrowed her eyes at the wink, unimpressed by his show. "I see that you've returned, sir. With two companions at that." Next to her, the stag lowered his mighty head, as if in a bow of greeting. He had more manners than her.

And less of her embarrassment, perhaps.

[sun_ofagun]

"Congratulations on your eyesight," Kyp replied, giving another nod to the stag - almost respectful, even. He took a few steps to stand next to Alyss, staring at the Shuckle with her; it stared back guilelessly.

"It's my other soul," he said after moment, directing his gaze back at the woman.

Idiot.

He blinked down at the coyote. "Thank you."

[misplacedqueen]

"Thank you," Alyss retorted haughtily in response, immediately regretting it. Rannoch sounded almost amused as he snorted again, and she found it very unbecoming of a deer to be able to snort.

"Your other soul?" The woman tilted her head, staring down at the Shuckle with apparent curiosity. "It... Says quite a lot about you." She glanced back at him, before pursing her lips and turning her gaze away.

You are a much more pleasant person than this, my queen.

Alyss only frowned in response, but got the message. "How was your... trip?"

[sun_ofagun]

Kyp gave her a lazy smile, amused at the haughty tone of her response. "You're welcome." In contrast to the last time the two of them had interacted, the man appeared to be a great deal more at ease - at the very least there was a lot less scowling and grumbling on his part. Whether or not Alyss would see the change as positive or not, however, remained to be seen. Not that Kyp was overly concerned (or even aware).

"Sure. I like to switch it around on occasion when things get boring." He shrugged, dismissive, although her next question gave him pause. "...Informative," he replied after a moment. "Why? Miss me?"

[misplacedqueen]

Alyss could see that, indeed, Kyp was different. Slightly more irritating, but that he wasn't continuously bringing his rain cloud around him and being grumpy all over the place, it was quite possibly a huge improvement. As it was, her own self could stand to lighten up quite a bit.

"Yes, I can see that you would much rather be a poor, vapid animal on occasion. It makes the world much simpler in that way, perhaps," Alyss replied with a slight nod. "So it was a worthwhile trip, then." The corner of her mouth curled up a bit, eyebrows arching, one hand propping onto her hip as she regarded him. "Perhaps I did, sir. What would you have to say about that?"

[sun_ofagun]

Kyp looked from Alyss, to the Shuckle, and then back at Alyss again. "I wouldn't call it poor," he said. "It looks moderately affluent to me." There was really nothing he could say to protect the dignity of the thing in relation to the vapid comment - she was right. About the Shuckle, that was.

"Worthwhile?" His mind turned briefly to his apprentice. "Without a doubt. Great opportunities for brooding in the Peruvian jungle." He paused a moment at that last comment, holding her gaze. He didn't say anything, then. Just smirked.

[misplacedqueen]

Okay, that one brought a full smile to her lips as she laughed softly. "That wasn't what I was referring to." It was more of a pathetic little thing, and having to follow Kyp around probably didn't ease its life.

"I'll have to remember that the next time I decide to travel and need the chance to brood." Not that Alyss would particularly need to go out to some jungle for that. She continued to smile at him, wondering if he would say anything. When he didn't, she glanced away, her hand pressing against the stag's side next to her. "Well, I suppose I've taken up enough of your time, sir. You must want to hurry back to the castle already."

[sun_ofagun]

"Maybe you should be more precise," Kyp suggested. The pokemon shuffled forward, around him to nudge at Alyss' leg lightly.

"Shucks!"

...He was almost grudgingly impressed at the way Jaina had apparently managed to train the animal to mangle the traditional 'Shuckle'. It would have been funny, if it hadn't been happening to him.

"Not particularly," he admitted. "I have the strangest feeling that Professor Farron is going to go out of her way too murder me as soon as she knows I'm back. It's not really something I'm looking to hasten."

[misplacedqueen]

"I guess so," Alyss agreed. She glanced down at the Pokemon in question as it nudged against her before crouching next to it, petting its smooth head. Well, for being vapid, as she had put, it was still cute. "There could be worse things afflicting it, though."

Her head turned as she looked up at him, expression thoughtful. "Rannoch and I... Were just planning on taking a walk around Hogsmeade. If you want, you may accompany us, if you would rather put off the meeting with the good professor."

The deer stamped his hoof, tossing his head towards Kyp. "Oh, yes. We are also both wondering why in the world you have two capes on."

[sun_ofagun]

"It could be less than moderately affluent?" Kyp made a pained face as Alyss indulged the Shuckle, which was leaning into her pets with a pleased expression, if glorified turtles could have expressions. "Do you want it?" he asked, not particularly hopeful.

He cocked his head to one side slight, mouth quirking up at the corner. "Is that you asking to spend time with me, Sir Durron?" The man glanced idly at the second cape when she mentioned it, holding it out to the side a little. "This? This is the reason said Professor wants my head on a pike."

[misplacedqueen]

"It could be, yes." Alyss smiled gently at the Shuckle, continuing to pet it, mumbling soft words. At the question, she stilled for a brief second before shaking her head. "No. I never was one for having pets." Not since the time she brought home a tiny and sweet kitten for her birthday. "Isn't it yours, and you are trying to give it away?"

She stood up then, shrugging gracefully and rolling her eyes. "That is me giving you an excuse to further avoid a very angry, young woman who would like to put your head on a pike for taking her belongings. Sir." Touching a finger to her lips, she smirked. "Though it does require me to spend time with you, but I have been in worst company before."

[sun_ofagun]

The Shuckle looked happier with Alyss practically cooing at it than it had the entire time it had been with Kyp. The Jedi fought the urge to pinch the bridge of his nose, refusing to feel guilty about that. He didn't want it, and the moment his troll of an apprentice returned, it was going right back to her. "That makes two of us, then," he replied, referring to her pet comment. "This--" he pointed at the pokemon, "--was not my idea."

It never is.

He shot the coyote a look, and rolled his eyes as her tongue lolled out again in amusement. Except when it is, of course. He returned his attention to the woman before him, who was marginally less irritating.

"You're too kind, sir." He eyed her smirk for a moment before returning another of his own. "And I seem to remember you practically bullying me into spending time with you, not so long ago," he pointed out.