Reeses, NOT SORRY. pv Pericles Dralt Closed

@Lucille Williams

Halloween held a special place in Pericles' memories, but not in the common sense.
His childhood had not been spent donning costumes and going from door to door, stocking up on sweets. Rather, the Dralts spent it as a family, honoring the harvest time with a grandiose feast. Some years they made a party of it, other years only involved dear friends and family. He may have missed out on trick-or-treating, though there was one thing which his celebrations had in common with most other children's: candy.

Pericles' freckled features were among those eagerly upturned scouring the flock of morning mail owls for one with familiar feathers. They brightened as soon as he spied a large Great Horned Owl in their midst, her trajectory fixed upon him. One hand raised to catch the parcel in her clutches, the other bent as an offered perch, unafraid of her talons. She visible took care to flutter just overhead before carefully alighting his arm. "Hullo Falathiel," Peri crooned quietly, beaming at the bird. Her sides heaved as she recaptured her breath, but just as quickly as she had landed, she regathered her strength and launched off again. The boy beamed after his father's owl for a moment more before unwrapping his gift. Within was an assortment of eye-catching sweets: a fresh pumpkin pasty tied in cloth, a small sack of Bolandi's Crystallized Pineapple, a bag of Mr. Spindle's Lick "O" Rish Spiders, and of course, two chocolate frog boxes stacked one atop the other. He glowed with gratitude, admiring the variety, but before he could settle on which to start with a voice caught his ear.

"Oh please be chocolate frogs...."
Pericles peered up. Across the way and down the row, a Ravenclaw witch seemed to sit on her lonesome. He witnessed her feed and thank her bird, unwittingly staring, smiling to himself til she murmured and sighed. The girl looked rather wistful, and he was keen on recognizing signs of homesickness. After all: he'd come to know the sensation well in recent weeks. After a moment's deliberation, he scooped his stash back into its wrapping and moved down so as to sit across from her. "S'cuse me...?" Pericles smiled in a lopsided way, mouth curling at one corner, watching with bright inquisitive eyes. The sweets were set down and a familiar blue box produced. "Would you like to trade? I'll gladly give you a chocolate frog for one of your..." he trailed, peering down into the bag, "...Left Bars? I've never seen one of those before."

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[font=Century Gothic] 10/30/2019 07:15 AM

[font=Century Gothic]Lucille would be lying if not to say she wasn't quite surprised when hearing a voice come from the other side of the Ravenclaw table.

'S'cuse me..?'
The voice said quietly, still giving the eagle an odd instintal jump at the sound.

Lucille scooted over when seeing who the voice came from exactly, a pale, well dressed, freckled boy... offering a candy trade?

Intrigued, Lucille spoke up suddenly, and even let a small giggle escape herself when hearing the boy refer to her Twix as a 'left bar'.

'Its called a Twix, silly. Y'know, the chocolate carmel one?'
Lucille thought for a moment on the subject.
'Its from the muggle-world, if you wanted we could share!'
The eagle finished excitedly.

A little early to offer her own candy to this stranger boy, but still, this was the oddly optimistic Lucille, so to say to was out of the ordinary would be a lie also.

"Oh right! Uh- My name is Lucille, what's yours?"
She said quickly after with a small smile on her face, putting out her right hand for a shake.

It was odd that Lucille had never seen nor remembered this boy yet, her 'inquisitive' nature made knowing people in advance much less hard, especially if this was speaking about her own housemate.

No matter, they were meeting now, right?
Another person met means another chance at a new friend, which Lucille seemed to be in desperate need of at this time.

Peering at the fellow Ravenclaw's candy haul this time, she noticed many unfamiliar sweets, including crystal pineapple, candy spiders, and the only kind she did remember, classic chocolate frogs.

Her favorite card being a jazzy wizarding singer Celestina Warbeck, reminding her of how cheesy yet how fun those kinds of songs could be.

@Pericles Dralt
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