Wolf Season Closed

Attire: Usual weekend kit: Slytherin pride, neck ring, kilt, no shoes. Nothing fancy!

Reducio

After spending most of the day studying, Colin decided that he needed to get outside for a while. So, chucking his books and school stuff back onto his bed, he headed straight for the common room door and the long corridors that led to freedom! Colin could run along the corridors and stairs with his eyes closed for the most part, for his bare feet knew where to go by feel. And they took him up all four hundred thirty two thousand eight hundred and ninety seven steps that led up from the deep and spider ridden dungeons and out into the world of light and air above!

"Whoa! Watch out lads!" he cried as he burst through the arched portal that led into the entrance hall where he ran smack into a couple of Gryffindorks too slow to move aside. "Whoops! Thanks for playing bowls with me lads!" Before they could even sort out what happened, Colin was out the door and running through the courtyard beyond!

For quite a while, Colin wandered along in the woods that bordered the great lake. He loved the sound of dried leaves crunching underfoot, and he laughed and hooted merrily just plowing through any leaf drifts he came across. Coming down to a sheltered cove of the lake, Colin's attention was drawn to a curious sight in the shallow water. A stone, it seemed! A bright blue stone. Colin stepped into the chilly water, it was only about shin deep, and pushed through until he came to where he had seen the stone. He bent down to pick it out of the water, and his hair flopped into the water too.

It was a rather pretty stone, he thought, as he got out of the water to find a place to examine the stone more closely. It was blue like the sky and had bands and swirls of white like clouds. It reminded him of someone --- Clair! She was his Eyes of Sky, the blue eyed girl that he loved most of all! He thought that this stone would make a lovely pendant for her, so he put it in his pocket to work on later.

For a while, he thought about Clair. She was such a cool girl, a fellow racer, smart and pretty! His heart swelled at the very thought of her. As he sat quietly under a tree, he heard some rustling sounds not too far away. Probably a mouse or something. Colin decided that he'd like to catch it. Would make a nice treat, right? he thought. So, keeping himself as quiet as possible, he focused on sorting out where the sound was actually coming from. He also heard something else that piqued his curiosity.

Not a mouse at all, but another kid! Sounded like a girl, but he didn't recognise her voice. He didn't catch all the words, but she said something that sounded almost like a poem. In fact, Colin became certain that it was a poem! She spoke of winter time and different kinds of animals! The rustling sound and the girl's voice came roughly from the same direction. As he stalked the wee beastie, he heard her mention quirrels and wolves, but also bears and --- beavers!? He'd heard of them, of course, but had never seen either!

Focusing again on the creature he was stalking, it suddenly broke from under the leaves and Colin leapt for it! A couple of bounds and a strong jump sent him through the air! "YEEEEP!" he cried out as he flopped onto his belly. He scrabbled around trying to catch the mousey, but it was quick! At last he got it and came crashing into a heap at the girl's feet.

A lot closer than he realised!

He looked up as the mouse struggled in his left hand. She must have been the girl who recited the poem. She was quite pretty! Colin's green eyes widened. She was blonde, wearing glasses and a fur lined cloak against the cold. "Have you ever seen bears or beavers? I mean --- I heard your poem!"

Colin realised that he probably looked a bit odd with his bare feet and damp hair full of leaves and twigs. And a mouse in his hand! He hoped the girl wasn't going to think he was eating the mouse! "Er. I mean --- hello?" Colin moaned inwardly. Well, this wasn't going to be the best introduction ever, was it!

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And indeed his introduction didn't go at all well! The golden haired girl squeaked! She tried to back away from Colin and ended up pressing her back into the tree she had been sitting under! She must be a fellow student, but she sure seemed frightened by what ought to be an ordinary chance meeting. In stead of saying hello in return or any other greeting at all, she lit right into Colin!

Unhand the mouse!? Colin wanted to say something snide, snarky even! But in stead of smirking he was so surprised by her aggression that his eyes flew open in surprise! Colin blinked stupidly. And then he --- dropped the mouse! As if he were a dog following his master's command! The mouse scurried away and Colin found himself scooting back a little bit himself. She seemed to be about his age, but just maybe she was a third year or something. Who knows what she would do to him!

What did she mean she'd use her quill on him!? That both fascinated and worried Colin. No one had ever threatened him with a quill before, but he did know there were many different kinds of quills and some did indeed have magical properties beyond their usual penchant for blobbing ink all over one's parchment.

Colin's lips rounded in a perfect O of shocked wonderment when the girl started pointing the quill at him, saying it was enchanted! "Ench --- what!?" She leaned in towards him inching her quill ever closer! Colin fell back onto his bottom and tried scoot away from the mad girl! "Explode!? Wha --- What do you mean I'll explode? What kind of quill is that anyway!?" She was almost on top of him, and at last Colin's wits managed to collect themselves enough for him to draw his wand!

"Easy now lass! I don't want to have to use this on you --- but I don't want to explode either!"

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