mary mary, quite contrary, how does your garden grow?

[veiledviper]

who: cryptidwizard and veiledviper.
location: um...a random empty classroom.
week: seventy-one.
time: late afternoon, after classes.
what: some pseudo-sibling bonding. honest. cross my heart.
rating: gonna err to the side of pg-13. this is lilith we're talking about.

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[cryptidwizard]

Even now, with the decision already made, Zak was conflicted about asking for help in Defense Against the Dark Arts. It was definitely putting in extra effort he wouldn't have bothered with a few short weeks ago-and for what? His grades? Like that mattered

[veiledviper]

Lilith was watching a spider build a web in a forgotten corner of the room when Zak arrived. The silk was difficult to see to the naked eye, if one did not know how to look. She tilted her head just so in order to observe. It threaded an intricate, beautiful pattern, a trap of shimmering, impossibly thin lines.

Zak's voice shook her out of her reverie, and she glanced up and smiled, open. It was not too difficult for her to appear friendly, when she had a desire to do so. "Ah. Hello, Zak." She paused, then gestured over to the empty chair near her own. "Please, sit down. Did you have any trouble finding the room?"

[cryptidwizard]

Zak smiled back, relieved that she was in a good mood. "Hi, Lilith. Thanks for coming to meet me." He bounded forward with the energy-of a first-year, making an unnecessary show of jumping onto the chair.

"Nah, it was pretty easy. I'm getting better at figuring this place out. Took a shortcut to get here." It was true. There were still countless secrets the castle had managed to withhold from him, but Zak was more educated than most on the layout of the castle. Sneaking around in underused passageways and secret rooms had had that effect, although as of late he was doing more of it...within the bounds of reason.

[veiledviper]

Lilith watched him, her hands folded neatly in her lap. Children were so needlessly exuberant. Energy expended without purpose was useless.

"A shortcut?" Her voice lilted at the last syllable, making it obvious she was interested. "I remember those...I found quite a few in my earlier years here. Hogwarts has many secrets, if you are willing to look." The passageways were advantageous as well -- knowing paths others did not afforded opportunities to hide, to withhold information.

"Now." Lilith reached in her robes to find her wand and set it neatly on the table. "We should begin. First...what would you like to learn, and why?"