Castling Open Closed

@Santario Martin @Kyle DeRook

Dale looked over to the person Santario was with, he looked rather intimidating, he was sitting in the seat directly next to Santario he had chessboard in front of him, that brought back some memories, Dale and his father used to play chess a lot when he was younger, they stopped because his father had to go on more and more business trips, but that was fine Dale because he had never even once gotten remotely gotten close to beating his dad, chess was just another thing Dale accepted he was not good at, just like drawing and singing.

“I have not seen you since… Well since the fox incident. I thought you might hate me after that! Please take a seat!”

Dale looked at her with confusion, it had been a while since they had last interacted, but he wasn’t sure what would lead her to think that he hated more… after all, that entire fox incident wasn’t her fault, it was mostly the fault of the D.W.S. they were just following instructions after all, “Don’t worry about Santario, none of it was your fault, you gave me plenty of chances to back out, besides it was good practice for my charms quiz.” Dale said jokingly.

“Kyle this is my friend Dale and Dale this is my best friend Kyle. Dale was my first friend here at Hogwarts.”

He looked over to Kyle, “Hi, I’m Dale, Dale Kurt.” Dale would usually be cautious of meeting anyone new, but if Santario said that Kyle was her best friend, he was sure he would be a good person. Maybe Kyle could give him a few tips on how to play chess, but not before he got some of his studies done, that was the main goal today…

As Dale took off his bag and put it down next to the seat and went to go sit down, Kyle put his shoes over the seat on the seat Dale was going for. He shot Dale a hostile look and said "I do mind however Dan. Maybe you should sit somewhere else. We're dealing with something" '' Well that was… unexpected” Dale thought to himself, he picked up his bag and slung it over his shoulder again. Dale understood why he did this… sorta, Whatever they were talking about must be important, it was Dale’s fault for not asking Kyle too. “O-Oh sorry t-to disturb y-you.” Dale quickly said to them, he could feel his face heat up he felt embarrassed, his stupid stutter did him no good in this situation. "Whatcha waiting for? Bugger off

Kyle sounded much angrier now, “S-sorry” Dale said as he started to head off to a table that looked generally empty, with only a few people there doing the same thing Dale planned on doing.

Interacting with @Santario Martin @Kyle DeRook @Dale Kurt

A month had past and now the start of October brought the coolness in the air and the green leaves outside began to change into another kind of color. If you looked outside a window you would see that different sets of yellows, oranges, and crimsons everywhere. Despite the cool and windy weather, the student still loved to go outside, they now all wearing their House scarf and robe to keep themselves warm against the chilly air around them.

Ever since Griseldis became a Prefect, it was now a part of her daily life to do  patrolling day and night.  She was quite thankful that so far no crazy event happen yet or not like last month how she accidentally tripped over a log and got herself injured. She was lucky enough that there were people there to help her. Speaking about those who were there, Griseldis wanted to give San, Alexander and Nanashi a proper thank you. But everyone became busy, not to mention after Alexander was chosen to be the new Gryffindor Prefect. they hadn't had the free time to have a proper conversation to get the know each other more. Griseldis sighed to that thought on her mind while she was one her way back to her dorm room to get some stuff before going to the Great Hall.

Griseldis kinda missed celebrating the Mid-autumn Festival where she used to celebrate this Chinese harvest festival with her family. But her mother did send their owl and brought her a lot of homemade mooncakes and some tea leaves. She decided to go to the Great Hall to enjoy her time study. How enjoyable could studying be anyway? Well, Griseldis always found the most relaxing way to learn things. It was like a habit of hers when she wanted to study something or reading books, she would drink tea and eat some homemade dessert her mother baked. It helped her be more motivated and you would never get bored from studying.

A book about Astronomy and a box of mooncakes in both hands, she arrived at the Great Hall with a bright smile on her face, showed how energetic she was. Just when she was going to sit at the Gryffindor table, she spotted her captian was interacting with two Slytherins across the table and there was someone who she was also familiar with...wait...that girl with wavy black hair... "Isn't that San?", Griseldis was a bit surprised that their Quidditch Captain Kyle DeRook who used to be intimidating and almost unapproachable seemed to care about her, you could tell by his protective expression. Could they be friends?  Out of curiosity but there was also a part where she saw as an opportunity to give San her sincere gratitude for helping her that day. Looking down at the box full of mooncakes, she nodded to herself with a confident smile. Griseldis believed this would be a nice thank you gift and she hoped that San would like the mooncakes.

Griseldis walked towards them and greeted them with a cheerful tone, "Hi, San! It's so good to see you again.", she turned to Kyle giving him a polite smile, "And it's nice to see you too, Captain.". Then she looked at the Slytherin boy and bowed to signify her respect, "Hi there, I'm Gris, second year like Captain, Prefect of Gryffindor. It's a pleasure to meet you." Griseldis looked back at San and placed the box on the table beside the chessboard. She gently opened the box to show them the colorful mooncakes inside and each mooncake had beautifully printed pictures on it. "I simply wanted to give you this for showing my thanks for helping me that day. These are mooncakes, by the way, my mother made them. I hope you'll like it, and of course..." She looked up at Kyle and the Slytherin boy, "You two can try the mooncakes too."

Flavors of each Mooncake: The green one is with green beans filling, the black one is with black sesame filling, The brown one is with red beans filling, the orange one is salted egg yolk, the snow skin one is with peach flavor, the rose one is cherry blossom flavor, the purple one is with purple yam filling and the pink one is strawberry flavor.

@Santario Martin @Kyle DeRook @Griseldis Edelhardt

Dale stopped in his tracks when he heard Santario's voice, she explained to Kyle how he had helped her out in the past before, well it apparently worked because Kyle lifted his boots of the chair Dale was going for. Dale breathed a sigh of relief and took in a breath to calm himself. He turned around and walked back over to the table, he put his bag down and took a seat, Kyle had said he had his eyes on Dale, he couldn’t really understand why Kyle was being so… hostile towards him, maybe Kyle was like this with everyone new, just like Dale was always nervous around new people. “T-Thanks” Dale said after he was sat down.

He looked over to Santario with a look of gratitude, if it wasn’t for her intervention this encounter would keep him up at night. He opened up his bag and pulled out about chemistry, this particular one was an old one Dale had found from his dad’s old library, it had plenty of useful application, but even more… dangerous ones.

Another person had arrived, she greeted Santario with a cheerful tone, and she referred to kyle as Captain, she introduced herself as Gris a Gryffindor Prefect, she had also brought some cakes and offered them to everyone including Dale. Dale felt like a bit of an outsider, these three seemed like they were all friends, and Dale only knew Santario there, “Well I am here to study first, socialize second.” Dale thought to himself.

Dale reached over and picked up the purple cake, he looked at it for a second, the top very pretty art drawn onto it, Dale felt a little bad taking a bite into it, it tasted great, very sweet and there was some kind of… filling inside of it. It tasted like yams, “This is delicious, thanks for sharing!” Dale said to Gris, “Also, my name is Dale, Dale Kurt. Nice to meet you.” Dale continued to eat his cake as he read a section about the many used of solidified alcohol.

Interacting with @Kyle DeRook @Santario Martin @Dale Kurt

Before Griseldis could explain each flavor of the mooncake, Kyle already picked a green one and took a big bite of it. "Aah...that's...", seeing her Quidditch Captain seemed to like the green bean mooncake, so she kept quiet about it and let him continued to enjoy it. With Kyle's loud invitation and not being aware that he just called her "Cakes" as a nickname, she happily joined them and took a seat beside the Slytherin boy and facing the captain.

"Hope you don't mind me sitting beside you.", she said to the Slytherin boy with a polite smile. Then she watched the brunette picked the purple mooncake and took a bite, he also seemed to like the taste and complimented it. He introduced himself and told her his name. "You're welcome, Dale. I'm really glad you like it.", Griseldis replied to him cheerfully and noticed that he was reading a book about Chemistry, that kinda made her remember her old school in the Bridgwater. She missed her old Muggle friends and her homeroom teacher who happened to teach Chemistry. "Oh, you're reading about Chemistry, aren't you? I used to enjoy doing a lot of Chemistry experiments during my time at a Muggle school in my hometown.", Griseldis said to him, suddenly feeling quite wistful, "You know, one of my favorite experiment was creating Crystals, it was really fun that you can grow your own Crystals with only a few ingredients and you have to follow the correct steps to do it, it was like Muggle Magic."

After saying that to Dale, she turned to look at San, she decided on the snow skin mooncake and to moment she took one bite of it. Griseldis could see San's eyes widen in delight as if she just ate the most delicious food in the world. She quickly praised her for being amazing and that somehow made her blushed a little bit. Out of habit, her fingers starting to play a few hair that were sticking out from one of her space buns. She did that everytime when she felt bubbles of joy or being slightly shy about it. When she mentioned about thanking her mother for making such wonderful mooncakes, she couldn't help but smile widely, "Of course, I'm sure my mother will be very happy to know that my friends like her mooncakes."

Griseldis watched as San resting her head on Kyle's shoulder made her wonder. Hmm...San and Captain really seem very close...it's a good thing though, having someone you can trust and comfortable with each other, especially in a place like Hogwarts. She rested her own head on her hand and smiled gently at them. "Anyway, how are you all these days? Anything new happened lately?" She asked curiously.

@Santario Martin @Griseldis Edelhardt @Kyle DeRook

Dale looked down at his books, marking a few things with a pen he had gotten from his pockets, jotting down just a few words and drawing a few diagrams with his scratchy handwriting. He finished up his cake and pulled out a bottle water from his bag, he took a drink and put it back. Gris had said she hoped he didn't mind if she sat next to him, "No I don't mind." Gris had also seemed to know what he was reading about, Dale was a bit surprised he hadn't met a single person yet that knew a single thing about muggle subjects, and he had been at Hogwarts for a full year, she had said that used to do chemistry experiments in her muggle school at her hometown, growing crystals and things like that.

Dale's school never did chemistry experiments, well at school anyways. "Ahh, My school never did chemistry experiments, my dad taught me everything I know. Id never thought I would meet someone who would know about chemistry here, are your parents' muggle too?" That wasn't all true, Dale had learned more about more explosive chemicals by himself, through self-experimentation, but he wasn't going to admit that to anybody anytime soon.

Dale went back to reading his book, but through the corner of his eye, he could see Santario had put her head on Kyle's shoulders... It made sense to Dale now why Kyle had been so protective of Santario, Dale's mother had forced him to watch enough romance movies to understand what was going on here. Seeing them reminded Dale of... Lark. Dale's cheeks suddenly became red he shoved his head back into his book, "not right now, you're here to study." Dale scolded himself.