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Post by ~Persephone~ on Dec 27, 2005 1:50:06 GMT
Snow fell softly to the ground. The flakes were large and soft; the perfect type for snowballs and snowmen. The perfect type to get you snowed in from school or work. So perfect, and so constant that you wouldn't have ever suspected it of anything more than harmless.
And it fell innocently to cover the Earth below. It was the perfect creation. The silent cover never seemed like anything more than snow, but it could be more than that, and there were always stories about people who had left for a winter journey to be trapped in the snow and met not so nice fates. Snow was the perfect creation of doom. Darkness wrapped in innocence. Pure genius.
A small frame walked through the sheet of white. You wouldn't have seen her from a distance. Her hair was silver blonde, and her small body looked like nothing more than a shadow of a tree. You would only have noticed she was a human being if she stood right in front of you.
The girl was wrapped in a navy cloak. A midnight blue scarf was wrapped around her throat, and a matching hat covered her ears. She looked like a walking pile of clothes. The only thing you could see was a pair of large expressive eyes.
And those eyes were something. Deep and ancient as they were, they didn't seem to fit the child they were in. But then again the body that housed the child didn't fit her. The five foot frame didn't seem to belong to a sixteen year old girl. She seemed to be a bunch of walking contradictions.
The girl with the ancient eyes was Persephone DeVone, a Ravenclaw Prefect. She was known in her house, and she had friends that she held close to her. Friends that took the place of a family she'd lost so many years ago.
But she walked alone today. The stores all looked welcoming, but Persephone headed towards the Three Broomsticks. She'd head there and get a hot chocolate, then head out to do some shopping.
Sephe struggled through the rest of the snow, now falling harder and faster than before. She reached the door to the Three Broomsticks and pulled it open. Heading toward the bar, she ordered her drink and then sat down.
She scanned the room around her hoping to find someone she knew, but didn't see anyone. She wasn't in a hurry though, and waited patiently to either talk to someone and or get her drink.
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Post by Evence leigh on Dec 27, 2005 21:20:38 GMT
Evence old tattered boots had been driving her crazy for the last ten minutes, as she tried to convince the bartender she was old enough to have firewhiskey. Her one Hufflepuff flaw, honesty, she was more a Slytherin when it came to stupid things like forgetting to do a chore and eating her vegetables at dinner, she was a story teller, she loved lying because she could spin fun lies. Her dad let in fact had only let her have firewhisky once in her life, she hated it, but today she really wanted to tell a tall tale to and innocent by standard, just to see if they'd believe it, no harm intended. Evence laughed at her own pathetic actions, your and idiot, she thought to herself as she walked away from the bar with a warm butterbeer in her hand.
"I have to do something about these shoes" Evence said to herself as she walked through the semi-crowded bar.
"apologies" she said to what resembled a pile of clothes sitting at a nearby table, as she set her drink down on the persons table and bent down to tie her heavy boots.
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Post by ~Persephone~ on Dec 27, 2005 23:58:02 GMT
"Don't worry about it."
Persephone spoke as she pulled off her hat, gloves, and scarves. Her hair was a mess, but she smoothed down the frizz that had come with the removal of her hat. She set her items on the table. It wasn't a large bundle of clothing, but still it was a pretty good sized pile.
She then looked at the girl that had set her drink up on the table. She seemed to be angry at her shoes, but then Persephone couldn't blame her. Shoe laces were one of those things that could quickly drive you insane, and usually it did.
She wondered if she should say anything eles, and spotting the crest on the girls clothing she knew where to start. It would at least break the ice, and maybe relieve her of some of her boredom while she drank her hot chocolate.
"So you're a Hufflepuff? Cool, I'm a Ravenclaw. How do you like you're house?"
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Post by Evence leigh on Dec 28, 2005 18:47:56 GMT
"hm?" Evence said peeling her eyes away from her stubornly falling apart shoes and resting them upon the previously girl that previously reminded her of a clothing pile. " umm its fine. I sort of new so I'm still getting used to the territory, you know" She was still getting used to the territory, in the school that is, she was starting to know hogsmede like her home away from home, seeing as she spent most of her time here anyways. " I'm starting to think I've met more Ravenclaws than anyone from any of the other houses combined." She said smiling at the girl before returning to the fight with her boots. "you didn't tell me your name, if you have one." she said with the impression that anything could happen around this school. "Mine Evence, Leigh" she said pulling her shoe strings as hard as she could.
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Post by ~Persephone~ on Dec 29, 2005 3:35:48 GMT
"Seems like Ravenclaws talk a lot to people from other houses. And my names Persephone DeVone, but most of the time people call me Sephe."
She looked down at the others shoe laces, and watched as she pulled the strings tawt. At least she seemed to be making some progress with them, she didn't like to think that she was stoping Evance from doing something.
"What do you think of Hogsmeade so far?"
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Post by Evence leigh on Dec 29, 2005 4:35:49 GMT
"Like alot of towns I've seen, with the exception of the magic stuff, but you know they've all got a bar, shops, people wandering around talking to strangers." Evence looked up at sephe smiling. "Do you hang out here alot?" SHe said finally puling her stings into a satisfactory bow and standing up strait reaching her full height of 5'5".
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Post by ~Persephone~ on Dec 29, 2005 4:44:40 GMT
"Yeah, I guess. I don't have a lot of free time, but this places reminds me of the places in Brighton. I guess it's a little bit of a cure of home sickness, but you'd think after six years of going to Magic Horizons, I'd get used to it. How 'bout you? Do you think you'll end up coming here often?"
Evance was right about the fact this was just like other places. Even in Brighton there had been a bar, a post office, shops, and people who walked around crazily hunting for bargains. She'd never really thought about it like that before, and now she saw the similarties.
Except there's no orphanage here that you grew up with, and there's no Manny here that took care of you after your parents death. Other than that, it's almost like Brighton, wether that's a good thing or not...
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Post by Evence leigh on Dec 29, 2005 17:03:11 GMT
"course, closest thing to home I've got. So a cure for home sickness would be the way I'd describe it to." Evence siad picking up her drink and sitting down across the table from sephe without asking if it was o.k.. "You said you were from Brighton right?" Evence said looking back at all the places she'd traveled trying to remember if she'd been there, not that she'd remember just by the name of the town.
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Post by ~Persephone~ on Dec 29, 2005 20:35:38 GMT
"Yeah. It's an ok sized town in south. There's not that much to do, but then again, most people probably don't think there's that much to do where they live. Still, everyone there's nice, and people are pretty forgiving. Have you ever been there?"
Persephone had watched as thoughtfulness filled the other girl's eyes. It seemed like she was trying to remember if she had once stopped there, but then again she could have been thinking anything.
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Post by Evence leigh on Dec 30, 2005 19:59:58 GMT
"small town in the south eh?," Evence stared up at the ceiling for a minute thinking "I can't say if I have of haven't" Sh e said honestly Evence took a sip of her butterbeer "did you have to leave alot of family behind coming here?" Evence said with curiosity but also just trying to make conversation, without asking questions as simple as whats your favorite color?
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Post by ~Persephone~ on Jan 1, 2006 0:01:36 GMT
"No. My sisters came to the school with me, and my parents are dead. I grew up in an orphanage, and even though they were like family, there was still distance there. I guess MH is my first home. How 'bout you?"
Persephone nodded and her deep eyes were veiled and sincere. Nothing showed except for that, and Evance probably couldn't tell what hurt and pain was drifting in there. It was the first time in a long time that she'd put up a wall. It really wasn't that much of one, but it was there until questions were asked.
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Post by Evence leigh on Jan 1, 2006 2:49:03 GMT
Evence coughed on her butterbeer as the girl told her this. That was awful, she had always thought of MH as a place to send kids for school, a place to know people then leave when you were older, she never actually believe it could be a home! "I'm , I'm really sorry" Evence said diverting her eyes from the girl, and staring at the table absentmindedly.
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Post by ~Persephone~ on Jan 1, 2006 5:57:51 GMT
"Don't be. It's not like I didn't have a happy childhood. I had friends, and now I have a family, well a family of friends. There's nothing to do be sorry for. I can't change the past, and I might not be who I am if I could."
She smiled at Evance. What Persephone said was what she thought, but there were those nights alone in the common room... But she didn't like to think of things so dark in light of day. She tried to smiled during the day, and she believed the words she'd spoken. The past couldn't be changed, only the future.
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Post by Evence leigh on Jan 2, 2006 1:58:34 GMT
"right, right" evence said the first 'right' to Persephone but the second to herself offhandedly. "were, were you waiting for someone?" Evence said with a cough, suddenly rather uncomfortable. Even more uncofortable than she knew she should be.
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Post by ~Persephone~ on Jan 2, 2006 18:02:25 GMT
"No. I just wanted to get out of the castle for a little while, so I didn't really tell anyone I was coming down. You?"
Evance looked awkward, and Sephe had been right when she'd said she wasn't waiting for anyone. Most of her friends would probably think she was either in the common room, buried in the library, or practicing at the Pitch. No matter how you looked at it, she was down here alone. But Persephone didn't mind, she liked meeting new people, and even if she didn't she liked being alone somtimes.
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