Ink and Parchment PV Colin McCoire & Quinn Root Closed

Colin nodded to the student who was leaving the Owlery and followed after Charlie and Quinn through the doorway. It was peaceful inside the high tower. He set his things down softly on the table --- up here he never thumped anything around. He really liked the owls and didn't want to disturb them!

"I've always loved coming up to the Owlery. It's generally quiet, apart from owly sounds and of course the wind! Do you lasses ever come here in the weather? I do! It's really grand here when a storm screams across the Highlands! The poor wee birdies are all huddled in snug, unless some git sends his owl out into the lashing winds! But to stand up in the high window and let the wind and rain and sleet and snow lash you --- I'd love to be able to fly, up with the eagles!"

Charlie called out to an owl. Colin wondered if she had her own. Colin shrugged and looked towards Quinn. "No birdie, it seems! I'll just add a couple touches to my letter while she's off looking!" With that, Colin took two packets of parchments out of his pocket. One was kind of thick, the other just one sheet. He wrote out a few more lines on the single sheet, then sealed it up.

He smiled at Quinn. "There's some things you can only tell your sister and not even your Ma or Da." Colin stared at Quinn. He looked like he was going to burst if he didn't say what was on his mind! "---" He was just about to say something when he heard Charlie's voice call out from high above. Instead, he said: "I reckon she's found her birdie!"

@Quinn Root | @Charlie Grace

When they all got to the owlery Charlie when to look for, What Quinn assumed was her owl, And Colin took out too packets of parchment. He added something to one of the parchment packets. 'There's some things you can only tell your sister and not even your Ma or Da' He told Quinn as charlie looked around for her OWL.

Quinn puled out her own parchment and Quill. Colin stared at Quinn like he waned to tell her something. It looked like it was really bothering him. At least that's what it looked like to Quinn. He was just about to say it when charlie found her OWL. Quinn quickly looked down and in very sloppy handwriting she wrote.
dear mom and dad,

Hogwarts has been a blast! as i'm writing this im with too of my friends Colin, And Charlie. Colin hes in slytherin like me, Charlie shes in gryffindor like you mom! They are both super nice! i've have explored a lot of the castle already. Wright to you soon!!

Sincerely,
Quinn!

" Lets see your owl charlie!" She said. Quinn's family had an owl, It was at home. but she was always excited to meet new animals. She loved animals. She rolled up her letter. Waiting to meet Charlie's owl.

@Colin McCoire @Charlie Grace

The owl held onto her arm proudly, almost like she was showing off. She gave a slight curious hoot while Quinn and Colin were making their way up the stairs.

"Dis is one of the school owls," she raised her up a little, letting the owl open her wings, "a favorite o' mine. That tawny 'ne o'er der," Charlie pointed towards a darker brown bird,"bit me quite good a few weeks ago."

She held her out to invite them both to pet her, and realized maybe the treats in her robe would help. She tossed them to the two, immediately the owl eyeing their hands, patiently waiting. Charlie gave a slight grimace to her talons, they were pretty sharp but she didn't say anything. She reached up and grabbed the letters from her mouth so she could get treats, they would've ended up on the ground anyways.
"No w'rries, she's nice I promise."
Charlie watched as the owl leaned over and waited for Quinn and Colin. A few owls perked with interest but wouldn't dare interrupt as she has shown some hostility against other birds who tried to snag her treats. Charlie witnessed it last time, but out of sympathy gave some of the owls treats as well behind her back.

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Colin watched as Charlie brought her owl closer, once Quinn and he got up the stairs. Colin bowed. "Oo, thoo'r a bonny bird!" Charlie explained that she liked this owl, as it was nicer than some of the others in the Owlery.

Charlie tossed them each a treat. Colin caught his without even looking. He smiled as Charlie winced from the bird's talon grip. Nice or not --- the talons of a bird of prey were no joke! Colin gave the treat to the owl and reached out to stroke the bird's feathers. "Soft. Deadly no doubt! Aye, ye're a good lass!"

Colin stood back after he'd petted the owl. "My folks have an owl, and Seanmamó has a couple. But I just use the school owls. There's a couple I like real well!"

Colin puffed his cheeks a bit and said: "ayuu --- ululuuu!" A tough looking Irish tawny owl fluttered down and landed on Colin's shoulder. His own eyes crossed as the bird's talons dug in. He nipped at Colin's braid. "Easy lad! Ma braid's no wee snakey! I brought us some micey treats! Fresh, just as we like em, eh lad?"

Colin dug around in his pocket with his free hand. "Ah! There ye are, ye little bugger!" He brought out a tiny mouse and handed it up to the owl, who took it and fluttered over to a nearby perch to enjoy his treat without interference from Charlie's owl.

"That's a good owl, that one!" Colin held up his two letters. "He knows who to give which letter to! I've already written about Quinn and the adventures we've gotten into. Next time I write, I'll tell Ciarán --- she's my little sister! --- about you Charlie. She'll love to hear about you. I'll even try to draw a picture of you two!"

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@Quinn Root | @Charlie Grace

Quinn got up the stairs holding her letter with the scribbles she hoped her parents could make out the words. Charlie's owl, or as she told them her mum's owl was standing on her arm. "Shes so pretty! what did you say her name was? Nyra? Nava?" Quinn asked charlie. Charlie tossed two treats to Quinn and Colin. Colin caught his easily. 'How did he do that?' Thinking on how Colin caught the treat, The treat that Charlie tossed to Quinn just hit her in the head. Quinn quickly went and picked it up off the floor, And blew it hoping no one saw it.

Quinn then held out the treat on the palm of her hand for the owl to take. She petted the owl with her finger when it took the treat. "She's so nice!" Quinn told Charlie. Quinn then looked around for a nice school owl. Colin said how his mum has an owl and his Seanmamó has a few. He called out for an owl. And a school owl flew down onto his shoulder.

Quinn was still looking around for the school owl, she had used the owl to send letters before. "prince! where are you? I have a letter for you to take to my mum and dad!" She called out, Careful not to wake up any of the other owls. After a minute a gray great horned owl flew down and landed on Quinn's head.

Colin gave the school owl the mouse he caught in the garden. He told the girls that he wrote about Quinn and how he will wright about Charlie next time "I should have written about my adventure in the abandoned toilets! In the next letter I guess..." She told her friends.

"I guess its my turn to introduce the owl, This is prince hes a schools owl!" Quinn told them looking to her head. Prince gave a hoot, he was happy they where talking about him.

@Colin McCoire @Charlie Grace

While Colin decided to draw the owl and myself, I had her perch on my shoulder and wait patiently. It was getting dark, and Charlie wondered if she would even fly her letter home by tonight. Something she would most likely research later.

Charlie managed to hide a chuckle to help preserve Quinn's dignity and save her some embarrassment. Charlie herself wasn't quick on her reflexes, but she couldn't help but laugh.

When Colin managed to finish, Charlie sent the owl on her way back home, much to her delight. Then suddenly she felt her stomach grumble, and noticed the sun has gone down significantly more than the meeting in the courtyard. She couldn't' remember the last time she'd eaten, maybe earlier in the morning as she decided to use her lunch time to study for class. It was a cruel mistake on her part, and noticed Colin and Quinn were staring at her for God knows how long.

"S'rry, lose meh train o' thought," she looked at what Colin was showing her. The picture, lovely drawn, showed herself with a big smile on her face with the owl proudly sitting on her shoulder.

"Tis beautiful Colin."

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Colin liked to draw, but was rather surprised when Charlie sat immediately for their portrait! "Och!" he said, but sat at the table and got out parchment and pencils. Taking one in his left hand, Colin bent his head over his work and began to draw. "I really do love pencils, ye know. I always blob when trying to write with a quill. You'd think they could make a bloody left handed quill, right? I mean --- surely there's more left handed wizards than just me!" Colin felt light headed as he drew and talked nonsense about pencils.

As Colin worked, he decided to draw Quinn as well. And then he added himself. "Ye twa are sae easy to draw, Quinn, Charlie!" he said. He drew a decorative border around the three of them. "Sae bonny," he whispered. As he drew, tears began to well up in Colin's eyes, and they dripped onto the table and the bottom part of the parchment. At last he finished drawing.

Without raising his head, he turned the parchment around so the girls could see.

"Tis beautiful, Colin," said Charlie.

He turned the parchment back and wrote something under the picture. {Ma Guid Freends in Hogwarts, Quinn an Charlie} He pushed the parchment away from him and dropped the pencil. He sat for some time with his head still bowed.

At last, Colin looked up and wiped the tears from his eyes.

"Lassies, I have to tell you something. About me. And it's best I tell you now --- before you hear about it from someone else." He sighed deeply. Oh, how to say this! "You're my friends. I trust Quinn, Charlie; and I don't how I know it, but I think I can trust you and all. I know Quinn's seen me do some --- er --- odd things. Diving about in the gardens and crawling about in weird places. I've tried to hide the worst of it from her, but I know she saw me just now down below. And I think you did too, Charlie."

The tears fell freely and Colin began to shiver. "Thing is, what I'm doing then is, well --- hunting. You know. Mice. Hares. Voles. Anything small, really. I usually tell people that I like to feed the owls. And I do! But --- really --- they're for me. Um. I eat in the Hall sometimes, but --- you'll probably think this is really gross --- but it's just not the same as running down your own prey! I won't blame you two if you hate me after tonight. I won't blame you if don't want to be my friend anymore. The thing is, I got bit before coming to Hogwarts. The night before."

"Me and Liam my brother and Ciarán my little sister were out playing, and something attacked us. I thought it was a wild dog. I jumped at it to defend them. I couldn't let them get hurt. Especially wee Ciarán --- she's only eight! But it was no wild dog." He pointed to his right chest and side. "It bit me here and scratched me all over my chest and side. Um. Twas a ---" his voice became littler more than a whisper "--- a werewolf."

Colin looked up into Quinn's eyes first, then Charlie's. The eyes of his friends. He felt suddenly empty. "I --- I'm a werewolf."

@Quinn Root | @Charlie Grace

Colin had drawn Charlie and Quinn, He told us the we were easy to draw. "Wow! your really good at drawing Colin!" Quinn complemented. Quinn saw how he still had his head down. 'Is he... Crying!?' Just as Quinn was about to ask why or if he was crying, He told them. He told them how it was best for him to tell them now then hear it from someone else.

'What dose he want to tell us? it cant be bad.... right?' Quinn looked at Charlie. Giving her a 'what dose he mean look' Quinn put her attention back to Colin. He told them how they were his friends and he trusted them. Also how Quinn had seen him do some questionable things.

'I wouldn't say that its odd.. maybe different? but not odd' She thought. He started to shake. 'Is he ok..? I don't know how to comfort him..' Because Colin was crying Quinn started to cry. She did not know what Colin was trying to tell them, It was obviously difficult for him.

He told Quinn and Charlie, That he was hunting. Rats, And small animals like that. 'So that's what he was doing.' Quinn thought. 'What dose he mean he got bit?' Quinn thought.

"Colin I will be your friend no matter what! you're nice and that's all that matters" She blurted. Tears where falling faster now. He told them how the night before they came to hogwarts, he was out with his brother and his little sister. When something attacked them. And how he jumped at it, Protecting his siblings.

He said that what attacked them was not a wild dog. He pointed to his right chest and side, "It bit me here and scratched me all over my chest and side." He said. His voice became light almost a whisper. "Twas a---- I- I'm a werewolf."

Quinn tears where falling faster now "Your so brave!! Telling us this! And jumping in to save your siblings!!! I will always be your friend!! no matter what!!" She sobbed. She was ugly crying. She tried to wipe her tears.

@Colin McCoire @Charlie Grace

Charlie couldn't help but feel awkward with the sudden emotion. She couldn't really think of anything to say.

He said that what attacked them was not a wild dog. He pointed to his right chest and side, "It bit me here and scratched me all over my chest and side." He said. His voice became light almost a whisper. "Twas a---- I- I'm a werewolf."

Charlie have heard about them, that werewolves were unpredictable. They were definitely dangerous and the only thing she could anticipate about them, was the full moon. But this was Colin, someone she'd met just recently. It would explain the odd behavior, but does Charlie want to take the risk? She was conflicted, Quinn congratulating him like he won some type of prize for coming out of the shadows. Of course it took some bravery, but at what cost? Charlies feelings were everywhere, and before the two would realize her silence, she gave a small cough.

"Erm, that um.. must've been rough for you." Charlie tried to seem sympathetic, "There's nothing wrong with it, of course. Surely you take something every full moon?" Her head was swimming with questions, and concerns. Being in the path of a fully transformed werewolf wasn't ideal, and possibly deadly.

"I'm sorry I'm just trying to process this," Charlie felt bad, but it was how she felt. "I-I appreciate you feeing comfortable to tell me."

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