august 26th, 2023
saturday, afternoon
wc: 400-ish
@Mia Fuzy

Scout was hyped. In less than a week, she was going to be attending the magical school of all time. She was going to learn how to cast spells and make potions and how to interact with dragons and deal with poisonous plants! To say she was excited was more than an understatement, because she could hardly contain it.

Bouncing back and forth on her tiptoes while her father counted out some coins for her to have. She wasn't even going to an exciting store- she was going to a bookstore! But her father told her she could go inside all by herself and buy her own books, while he went and got her her cauldron. "Here, take this and your list, and go get your books." Baishu said, turning away to go to Potage's.

There were quite a few people in the bookstore when Scout walked in. It wasn't overtly packed or anything like that, but there still seemed to be a few students purchasing books for the upcoming school year. She decided to start off with the book about magical creatures, by Newt Scamander. Though she'd still have to wait a few years, Scout was more than thrilled to start working with magic animals. Maybe she'd get lucky enough to see a real dragon!

Flipping through the pages of the book, Scout stepped backwards to get out of someone's way, only to bump into another girl. She wasn't familiar by any means, and looked to be about the same age as Scout- only marginally shorter. But if there was someone else in the bookstore and they looked like Scout's age... does that mean this girl might be one of her future classmates?!

"Ohh- sorry! Hi!" Scout said, waving to the girl. "Are you shopping for Hogwarts too?" She asked, bringing her voice up a bit, albeit a little too loud. "I'm Scout, are you excited to go to school? I'm really excited to learn how to cast magic~ my ma says it's kind of hard but my dad says I'll get it really easy." Her questions come pretty rapidly, and her words seem to blur together with how fast she talks. The people around them quiet down, only adding to the volume of Scout's voice. She's just very excited!

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I would rather be a beggar and single

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Mia was in florish and blotts reading and buying some books. She likes to skim through her books before she buys them even if they are for school. She was skimming through a book on magical creatures. She wasn't really going to buy the book of course but she was thinking about it. She was about to put the book back when someone bumped into her. She scanned the girl with her eyes, she was energetic and as young as Mia, probably a first year. Then she started talking, "I'm Scout, are you excited to go to school? I'm really excited to learn how to cast magic~ my ma says it's kind of hard but my dad says I'll get it really easy.". Mia winced at the volume, they were in a book store where you are suposed to be quiet. She remembered when she was like this, once she got one question out all of her others would cascade out like a waterfall and it was hard to stop. Soon the people around them started quiting down and staring at Scout, making her volume louder compared to everyone else. "shh... here come sit with me over here and we can talk... QUIETLY." She lead her to a little table near the back of the shop, placed my books on the table and sat down.

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than a queen and married

Word Cout: 225

august 26th, 2023
saturday, afternoon
wc: 300
@Mia Fuzy

Scout's thrill would not die out soon. Going from a life where she had very few people to talk to, in terms of similarity in age and things in common to discuss, to eventually going to a huge school where she would meet tons of people... she was so excited. It's not like she had no friends to ever talk to, though given her track record, it wouldn't be surprising if that were the case.

"Oh, yeah, sorry!" She dropped her voice to a considerably low whisper. The drop in her tone was almost animated, combined with her minorly flailing hands and slightly puffy cheeks. She looked a bit like a flustered cartoon character. But that would not discourage her from talking to her future classmate! First impressions were important, as her mother would say, so she had to make this one count.

The table the brown-haired girl had chosen was in a comfy-cozy corner in the back of the bookstore. Scout took notice of the lack of people in the corner, and tried to make a mental note to not talk as loudly as she normally does. Whether or not the note will stay in her mind is up for debate, but she can at least say she tried!

"I told you my name was Scout, right?" She starts up, again sitting the books she had grabbed on the table. "What's your name? And... you are going to Hogwarts, aren't you? What house do you think you'll be in? I think I'll be in Gryffindor, and my dad agrees with me." Her hands become occupied with fiddling against the cover of one of her books. "Hey... maybe we'll both be in Gryffindor together- and then we can be housemates!"

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I would rather be a beggar and single

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Mia was glad the girl had quieted down a bit. She listened as she talked thinking about how she used to talk like that. Did I allways sound like that. I must have been so annoying for those around me. Mia looked at the girl as she set her books on the table across from her and sat down. Then she began to talk again. Mia was relieved when she heard her talk quieter. She did look a bit like one of the cartoon characters from the shows her little sister made her watch. She listened as she asked her questions and then she talked. "I am going to Hogwarts. Maybe we will see each other there!" She couldn't keep the excitement out of her voice. She was scared that she would be the one who was being loud next, so she took a breath and continued. "I think it is cool that you're probably going to be a Griffindor, but..." She looked at her feet, afraid that her new aqatince would leave after she stated her next fact. "But... I'm probably going to be a Slytherin, we can still be friends right?" Mia winced and got ready for her new found friend to walk away.

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than a queen and married

Word Cout: 206

august 26th, 2023		saturday, afternoon
wc: 310		dhampir | sensitive to sunlight
interacting with: @Mia Fuzy		mentioning: nobody

Unlike the decades or so before her, Scout was never the kind of person to believe that a difference in houses meant that you could no longer be friends. Despite her parents growing up in stereotypically opposite houses (Hufflepuff and Slytherin respectively), they got on like a housefire. Her grandparents would even tell her that some houses held grudges against one another, and how relationships or friendships would never start simply because of the difference.

Which, of course, Scout never understood. As an 11-year-old, it was hard to comprehend not wanting to be friends with someone just because of what house a lousy old hat said you were in. Even more so, as a friendly 11-year-old, there were very few things she actually wouldn't be friends with someone for. But those kinds of requirements were more along the lines of 'actually being a bad person', rather than 'this hat that doesn't know you says that because we have different personalities, we can't be friends'.

"Hey, come on, what kind of talk is that?" Scout asked, shaking her head. "This isn't the nineties, we can still be friends if we're not in the same house!" Once more, she animatedly flailed her hands. "It'll just be cooler that we know each other! Maybe there will even be like an event where you have to team up with someone from another house, then I definitely know who I'm going to be choosing as my partner, got it?"

It was endearing, in a way. Scout was very excited to have a new friend, and if she had to prove her worth to her new friend by promising to be friends no matter what, then so be it! A friend is a friend no matter how small, as they say.