New experiences
(wc 220/1,293 char.) || 02/04/2026 || int. w/ @Smudge Grinmer
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Daphne's eye twitches almost imperceptibly as she considers how to explain houses. This girl really had no idea what she was getting into. Why'd she even come here? Surely Muggle parents didn't force her to a wizarding school, they thought we had a vendetta against them.
Eh, some of us do.
"You're hopeless, aren't you?" She finally manages, exhaling a sigh through her nose
She finally starts to explain. "Houses are basically the.. for lack of a better word, groups or factions that each student gets put into. There's four at Hogwarts. Gryffindor for the brave, Ravenclaw for the smart, Hufflepuff for the loyal and Slytherin for the cunning. Practically every decision you make will either add or subtract points from your house, which is why it's important not to be a bad link or your entire house will hate you for it."
Kerberyx takes a moment to think if there's anything else important to add before her thoughts are cut off by the girl's last statement. She freezes, not expecting the display of vulnerability and suddenly feeling somewhat awkward.
"...Understand what exactly?" She raises a brow, confused. Silently urging Smudge to elaborate.
She wasn't sure why she cared, really. The other girl was probably just going to lash out at her nosiness but something still urged her to ask.
she/they . seer . index . "dialogue" . narration . *thoughts*
`` step out of the sun if you keep getting burned. `` || `` time, I've unlocked it. I see past and future running free. ``
`` step out of the sun if you keep getting burned. `` || `` time, I've unlocked it. I see past and future running free. ``
New experiences
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𝐒𝐄𝐏𝐓. 𝟏𝐬𝐭
𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓
["You're hopeless, aren't you?"]
𝒮mudge raises her lips into a hot scowl as she dreads her eyes to the girl. There’s no way she’s insulting her, does she even know what she can do? Her fingers ball into a firm fist.She wants to leave, quick, before she does something drastic. But even then what would she do next? If what the girl is saying was true then she had to option but to act like a prim school girl until she got there. Smudge tightens the seal on her trigger happy nature, she can’t lash out yet.
["Houses are basically the.. for lack of a better word, groups or factions that each student gets put into. There's four at Hogwarts. Gryffindor for the brave, Ravenclaw for the smart, Hufflepuff for the loyal and Slytherin for the cunning. Practically every decision you make will either add or subtract points from your house, which is why it's important not to be a bad link or your entire house will hate you for it."]
She doesn’t know what sort of house she’d fit into, nor did she care for some ‘stupid house pride’. She would’ve been grateful, but she could only think of what the girl just called her. Hopeless? I’ll show her hopeless! She repeats to herself. Everything she assumed must’ve been right after all.
["...Understand what exactly?"]
Smudge softened her furrowed gaze only for a short moment, atleast the girls trying!
“Forget it okay? … — For your own good I hope you don’t insult me again.”
Hopeless, hopeless! Is that how this world saw her? She doesn’t expect much from this School anyway no matter what that letter told her.
“Look, it’s clear you don’t like me, I don’t like you either.” Smudge began jumping to conclusions again, leaving behind any remnant of doubt.
“But if we have be at this school together we outta play buddy-buddy, eh?”
Smudge sighed deeply, using a mock greeting tone the upper class girls at her school use to make friends
“My name is Smudge Grinmer, yours?”