And So We Meet Again PV Margaret Burkhart

Miranda watched as Margaret used the levitating spell to lift the crate’s lid off, then shook her head slowly. How did I not think of that? she wondered, laughing at herself quietly.

“Ladies first," Margaret announces when the crate was opened.

Miranda shot her an amused glance. “Aren’t we all ladies here?” she asked, but accepted the offer and climbed onto the crate with a quick succession of small hops.

She balanced on one of the edges and peered inside, still holding her lit-up wand. “It looks like it’s filled with potion ingredients,” Miranda finally announced after a minute or so of inspection. “Maybe this is an extra staff storage room. For anything they can’t keep in their classes, or something. Maybe these are the extra ingredients.” She pulled out a fat glass bottle filled with a slimy grey liquid that she didn’t recognize, then quickly put it back. “Ew,” she murmured, wiping her hand off on her pants.

Miranda hopped down from the crate and walked over to stand beside Margaret. She was still rubbing at her hand, which didn’t look strange at all, but for some reason still felt as if she were touching slime. “It leaked out a bit,” she explained with a grimace.

Margaret made a quick face of some emotion, she wasn't eally sure what, maybe empathy and discuss? But it quickly became disappointment "maybe it's dangerous ingredients or important ingredients that can't be trusted in the hands of students?" Margaret said in an almost hopeful, questionary way. She wasn't expecting authing really but this seemed like a let down from the adventure he was expecting. At first, she thought it might not be the hidden floor which was what made her hopeful in the first place but now that hope kind of just fade into disappointment.

"Do you want to keep looking through these crates to see if anything interesting is in them or move onto the next room?"Margaret asked Miranda. She got up on the crate to see f she could see anything cool inside the crate. There were a few cool things like dragon scales and lion's teeth. She didn't want to touch anything. She had noticed that Miranda was still whipping her hand that touched the bottle of goo and didn't thin repeating the same experience was necessary.

Seeing the cool ingredients made her wonder what other things might be in the other crates. She thought maybe he could use them to make cooler potions.

"Maybe it's dangerous ingredients or important ingredients that can't be trusted in the hands of students?" Margaret suggested hopefully, and Miranda took another glance at the crate's continents.

"Maybe," she replied. "I don't recognize most of this stuff, so that would mean it's more advanced than first year supplies or the beginning of the second year ones." An item caught her eye, and she pulled out a tooth as long as her forearm that she immediately recognized as coming from a dragon. "Cool," Miranda murmured, before reluctantly putting it back.

"Do you want to keep looking through these crates to see if anything interesting is in them or move onto the next room?" Margaret asked.

"Maybe we should check out the other rooms?" Miranda decided, although she phrased it like a question. Chances were that the rest of the crates contained similar items, and the disappointment on Margaret's face was evident. Hopefully something more interesting would cheer her up.

She quickly put the crate's lid back on, struggling not to drop the heavy item and cause unnecessary noise, then moved out of the room and back into the hallway, waiting for her friend to join her.

Both of the other doors seemed much the same as the first, but Miranda knew looks could be deceiving. She made her way to the nearest one and opened it with a quick jerk of her arm.

Margaret joined Miranda out in the hallway and stood by so she could see inside the door. As Miranda opened the door Margaret could hear something moving around in the room. When the Miranda opened the door she could hear small scurrying around. She could see something small with large blue eyes inside the room but she wasn't sure what they were.

The light from Miranda's wand became brighter, enough to see the creatures that were inside. They were small, fuzzy creatures with webbed duck- like feet. They were tiny, well they were pretty small about up to the waist of an average adult. They were cute with grey, black, or white fur. They had long necks and tiny legs. "Are those mooncalves?" Margaret asked, "you're the expert on this stuff." She said jokingly.

"I don't know anything about them." Margaret stated, "what are they like?" She asked turning toward Miranda. She walked a little bit closer to them. "They aren't dangerous are they?" Margaret asked turning toward Miranda before stepping any closer.

They were in a ring around the door. They were awfully cute and they looked soft to touch, like a cat when they have smooth soft fur. But Margaret didn't want to just assume just because they were cute that they were safe to touch.

At the sight of the creatures, Miranda's mouth fell open. "Yeah, those are mooncalves. I've only seen them once before, when some foreign trader left them with my parents for a week while he was tending to some business in Africa."

"I don't know anything about them," Margaret said. "What are they like? They aren't dangerous are they?" She took a few steps closer to the creatures.

Miranda shook her head. "No, they're not dangerous. Just a little greedy, that's all. Other than that, they're just super cute and playful." She smiled and reached over to pat one of the calves, and it bounced up and down with its wide, unblinking eyes fixed on her. The eyes reminded her a bit of Ollivander, the wand store owner, and she couldn't help chuckling slightly. Cedar had noticed the same thing when he'd gone in for his wand, but had had the good sense to not mention it until they'd left the shop.

Another mooncalf butted at Miranda's other hand, its long fur brushing softly against her skin. She scratched its ears, and it leaned against her for a moment before hopping away. "So cute," she murmured under her breath with a smile.

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