Replacement Wand

[Hayzie]

"Cheers, Stan!" Hayzie called back near enough cheerfully as she stepped off the Knight Bus. Early that morning, the blonde girl had left the forest in order to spend a day in Diagon Ally, hopefully purchasing a new wand somewhere along the way.

As she walked down the cobbled streets of the town, hidden behind the Leaky Cauldron in London, Hayz watched everyone go to and fro on their daily business, chuckling as two small children tested out their new Zonko's presents.

She had to stop however as she reached 'Quality Quidditch Supplies'. Even though she highly doubted her place on the Gryffindor team after her sudden disappearance as of late, a new broom in there caught her eye, already being gazed at by other shoppers in Diagon Ally that day.

Tearing herself away from the shop, Hayzie carried on with her walk to Ollivander's. She remembered only too well the day she had received her first wand. "Birch and Unicorn Hair, very good for Charm work," Mr. Ollivander had told her. This had proved time and time again to be true as Hayz had used to go around the school randomly changing people's hair colour or turning the Great Hall into an Ice Kingdom with Adhara.

Shaking her head, the lycan girl stepped into Ollivander's gazing around her in awe as she had the first time she'd arrived.

"Ah, Miss Roberts is it?" the bespectacled man asked, a smile on his face as always. Immediately, he went towards the back of the store, taking out a fairly small box. "Birch and Unicorn Hair… it seems you were last here only yesterday. What happened to your first wand?" he asked, curiosity taking over his face.

Laughing, Hayz could only reply with: "Let’s just say it snapped during an adventure." Although there was a smile on her face, glints of slight fear and anger could be seen in her eyes. Not that she was about to let anyone know she felt that way.

Nodding, Mr. Ollivander wrapped up the wand and put it in a bag.

After a short conversation, Hayzie stepped back out into the street and was forced to shield her eyes against the June sun. Looking around, she decided she'd head across to the ice cream parlour before going to shop any more.

[Ainala OceanCrest]

Flitting among the throngs of people, Ainala couldn't quite escape notice even in this colourful crowd. Non-humans weren't so popular in Diagon Alley, and small as she was, Ainala would draw notice just about anywhere she went.

She was a tiny thing, well under a foot in height and almost small enough around to disappear if she turned sideways. She hovered just barely above the heads of most in the crowd, slightly under if she happened to pass the odd witch or wizard that was particularly tall. She was held suspended on a pair of fragile seeming gossamer wings that glittered through every colour of the spectrum depending on how the light hit them--first green, now purple, now blue, now pure white, and her clothes matched: a silk seafoam blouse and loose tye-dyed pants.

This was the water sprite's first time in Diagon Alley, and she was enjoying waving at the witches and wizards all around her, enjoying all the attention she was attracting. Consequently, she wasn't paying much attention to where she was going. Unnoticed, she began to drift lower, didn't pay much attention to the fact that people were having to dodge to avoid being hit by her. She simply put it down to the odd antics of humans.

She was busy grinning and waving at a wizard dressed in robes that matched the colour of week-old mold almost exactly, and didn't notice that she was directly en route to collide with a girl who was heading towards the ice cream parlor.

"Oh!" she cried, sucking in a startled breath, and pulled back to hover in front of the face of the person she'd just crashed into. It was a blonde girl, one who looked much younger than the majority of people here. Probably a student. "Hi! I'm sorry, I didn't mean to crash into you." She giggled. "My name's Ainala OceanCrest, what's yours?"

[Hayzie]

Hayzie flinched when something bumped into her. She had been in a daydream and hadn't been taking notice. Focussing properly again, Hayz noticed a tiny girl about a foot tall talking to her.

Blinking a little, she thought she was still in her daydream, but this wasn't true.

"N...No, I'm sorry," she answered, still looking confused. "I'm Hayzie Roberts. It's a pleasure to meet you Ainala."

[Ainala OceanCrest]

"Hi, Hayzie Roberts," Ainala grinned, giggling. "It's good to meet you too." She flittered about eye level in front of the girl, gossamer wings beating rapidly to hold her up, but if doing so took any effort at all she didn't seem to notice it. "Are you from the school? I've been there, I have lots of friends there." She paused long enough to suck in another lungful of air, then she was off again, chatting mindlessly in her high-pitched voice which was nonetheless quite pleasant to the ear. Save for the fact that it never stopped. "So how come you're here? Is it summer vacation or something now?" she asked, and for a wonder, she actually stopped talking long enough to hear Hayzie's answer.

[Hayzie]

Hayzie let a small smile loose as she watched the tiny girl flit around and talk none stop. So hyper! she thought to herself, shaking her head.

"Yes, I'm from the school, and I'm here because..." Hayz had just been about to say she was getting a new wand, but maybe that would be best left untold. Shifting the package under her arm a little so perhaps it was out of view, she said: "it's summer vacation, yeah..." her tone a little distacted.

[Ainala OceanCrest]

If Ainala noticed the girl's abstracted tone of voice, she didn't bat an eye over it. A lot of humans used that tone of voice around her. Ainala had never stopped to figure out why, never really cared. "Oooh, summer vacation, that's fun," she commented. Apparently bored of hovering in the same place for more than five minutes at a time--heaven forbid she actually stay still--the sprite darted a small circle around Hayzie's head, finally landing on top of it, crossing her legs and making quite a comfortable seat on the strands of Hayzie's blonde hair. However, this position had its disadvantages, namely not being able to see the girl's face when she was talking to her. So Ainala tumbled forward again, caught herself in midair, and returned to the spot where she'd been before.

"So what exactly do you do during summer vacation?" she asked brightly, grinning, her big blue eyes sparkling. "I mean, at the school you do lessons and stuff, right? But what do you do when you don't?" Had she stopped to think about it, she might of realized that phrased like that, the question didn't really make much sense. But this was Ainala; she rarely stopped to think about anything.