Friendships Blossom PV Elsian Cox Finished

He'd dropped his bag off at his dorm quickly before going to the Great Hall after separating from Logan once they left the west tower, partly due to not wanting to lug the bag around and the rest to avoid dealing with a certain blueblood he knew taking his bag again. He knew he'd be the last to arrive between the two because of it but even if he hadn't went to his room, he had the sneaking suspicion he'd still be last seeing how fast the other had walked.

The moment he'd entered the hall he'd ducked away from the more crowded spots, only giving the area a quick once over to see if Logan was there before avoiding it like the plague once he caught sight of a few people he had zero intention of talking at the moment. Not only for the fact he'd have to suffer through another conversation about quidditch and different types of broomsticks but rather he much preferred Logan's company.


Dodging a few older students noisily shoving by he got a small glimpse of the Hufflepuff near some Ravenclaws and quickly walked over, placing a hand over his heart in a wounded manner as he leaned over the others shoulder slightly, putting his other hand to rest against the table.

"I'd ask if this seat is taken but it clear I've already been placed with a bag. Granted a very nice bag so I see why but still, how will I ever recover from this insult?" he sighed shaking his head.

"And here I thought we bonded over our mutual agreement that I'm the perfect child between us."

He laughed slightly, slipping down to sit next to her as his other words seemed to finally sink in. He leaned forward on an elbow, avoiding the plate in front of him as he turned towards the others glare giving the other a debating look before humming in a slight agreement.

"You can be perfect child for tonight since you got me a seat." he offered sitting up to grab his cup and take a drink of the cold water as the other glanced around, unlike himself who couldn't have cared less about anyone outside of their conversation at the moment. Something not hard to pick up on with how he began to put some bread and corn on his plate, starting to pick at his food and only bringing his attention away when Logan spoke.

"But I like talking about your cooking skills," he hummed after taking a bite of bread, slightly turning to face the other as she continued, "but fine, we can talk about it again some other day..." he said raising a brow the moment it left her lips.

"It's been..." his nose wrinkled the slightest bit thinking about all the people he'd run into so far, not quite good but not quite bad either..."interesting." he decided, "lots of odd people, mainly...from your house." he admitted with an odd look as the thought came to him.

"At least, the other houses have interesting people. he amended thinking better of his words,"I haven't actually spoken to my housemates much." Only one person who he'd just recently become friends with in reality.

He leaned back in his seat as someone from down the table threw a roll at someone near them, "what about you? Any life long enemies I should know about?" he questioned, voice sounding bored but teasing obvious in his words.

"Another bag to replace me?"

"I'll be holding you to that." he hummed, giving the girl a disbelieving snort, "you could have fooled me, you seemed the type to easily make friends with how..." he gestured to her lazily from her head down, leaning on the elbow of his free arm, "nice you are..."

"When you don't glare." he said as an after thought. "Still, seems that's one big difference between us, I only know one person from my house...everyone else I know are different houses from me" he drawled, "makes sense you'd be more comfortable with your housemates though...guess that makes me the special case huh?" he cooed sarcastically. "It all makes sense now. You wanted me for my lion status. Making a collection I bet. Who's next on the list? Slytherin or Ravenclaw? I'll draw them in so you can have all the whole collection." he promised sagely, half listening to the others next question as he took a drink.

Elsian thought about his classes, he'd...been getting good grades... For the most part.

"I don't fancy Astronomy..." he grumbled taking a bit of chicken while thinking of how he'd just barely passed thus far. He was absolutely dreading the next assignment.

Maybe he'd just skip the class and borrow someone else's notes...

"though I do like defense against the dark arts." He wasn't quite sure what was so appealing about it but for now the class had his peak attention. If that attention would last was yet to be seen.

"I feel like you'd be good at astronomy-" he said, eyes narrowing when the other was shoved forward and leveling a small glare at the back of the one who'd done it. "How rude," he huffed shaking his head slightly before continuing, "what do you do outside of classes anyways? You really were impossible to find throughout the week you know."

"Scared of Slytherins?" he questioned quietly so only she could hear him.

Her words made him think of the boy he'd ran into not too long ago. William hadn't it been? He couldn't picture Slytherin as intimidating as some of the other houses thought, not after seeing the boy stumble over his words and blush when making a mistake. It made him shake his head with a low laugh.

"Well, I think quite a few of them are actually more shy than anything. Really, I think it'd be easy for you to go and slytherin to a conversation and make a friend." he said with a serious look, knowing just how horrible the pun was and still feeling quite proud of it.

Elsian instantly felt as if cheated when the other said the great lake. The one place he hadn't deemed worthy to look and apparently that was where she was the most seeing as he'd been to all the other places!

"Of course you were at the lake!" he complained, giving his plate a dark look, "ugh, the one place I like to avoid and you were probably there every time I couldn't find you inside..." The moment Logan spoke of fire though he straightened, eyes narrowing in thought when she rushed through the conversation. Obviously, she didn't mean to give him that type of fodder. A real tragedy for her since he didn't forget easily.

He didn't know when, and he didn't know how, but he'd knew deep down he'd find a way to use this info for a nickname. One that even she couldn't deny suited her, especially with her apparently close relationship to fire. Still he'd keep his mouth shut for now but...he hadn't actually expected her to catch things on fire...and... he guessed it made sense why she'd choose the place with water.

"Mm, I'm not surprised about the Herbology. You kinda remind me of Willow." he said, pushing his plate slightly away. He hadn't eaten as much as some of the other kids but he never really had to, it wasn't unusual for him to be done eating before everyone else. "She seems to like that kinda stuff too. Maybe you'd get along..." he trailed off, slightly amused by the thought.

Elsi grinned sharply at the other, "well I don't know any lion puns so-" he shrugged, "sides, you're just jealous you didn't think of it first."

He winced slightly at the mention of the lake before he could push away the sour taste it brought back. He couldn't say he saw the appeal...Sure it sounded nice in his head at first but the moment he'd actually thought about going, actually saw the lake in person? Just thinking about it made him uncomfortable, still he shook away the thoughts, welcoming the change of topic.

"Willow is actually your house. I wouldn't be surprised if you'd seen her around....though, I wouldn't call her and I...friends per say..."

He trailed off thinking about their rough start, he gave the other a small shrug, "makes you feel any better I don't really know anyone in my house either. Only one, Sage..." he frowned, thinking about the tree incident, "doesn't matter though does it?" he asked, "I mean, houses don't really matter that much. Its practically just a way to make students work harder for house points after all," he sighed, propping his elbows atop the table to rest his chin in his hands lazily.

It was laughable really. The boy he'd met on the train had been so sure Elsi would be a snake or raven while he'd be a Gryffindor... Oh how the tables had turned.

"Besides, it's better to have a few close friends than an army of acquaintances anyways." he said, giving the Gryffindor table a pointed look, "at least that's what I prefer. I chose you over my dorm mates any day. No hesitation."