A Love of Books (Open)

Prefect Meeting: Done
Potions Essay: Done
DADA essay: In-progress
NEWT Studying: not started

The thought of Tess not giving herself time to study was unthinkable. The new year had barely started, and she was already determined to get Outstanding in everything. She was a bookworm at heart, and she wasn't going to fail if she just crammed everything in. Her mind was filled with books that she might need, and as if it was a checklist in her mind, she began to pull them from the shelves. Seven. Seven books were not carried by the petite witch towards the circular table that was alone. She didn't want to be disturbed, at least not until she got some studying done. This was entirely too much.

Tess had the book right on her lap, and as soon as she had a chance, and was soon engrossed. Potions was something that she figured she had under her belt, along with DADA. She had put those books last, instead concentrating on alchemy, which was a frightening elective to begin with. Her thoughts began to narrow to simple the subject, which was always daunting to do.

"Hello I'm Sage Fawn. I've seen you around but I don't know if we've met yet." He said.

She was so engrossed that she hadn't even noticed someone approaching her. As soon as she heard him, she lifted her head up in surprise. She blinked a few times, trying to regain some sort of normalcy in her thinking and smiled politely.

"Hello" she said softly.

As he introduced himself, she realized that despite him being around her age, she knew nothing about him. She'd seen him before she supposed, but not enough for her to grasp his name.

"I'm Tess, pleasure to meet you...would you care to sit down?"

Tess studied the boy curiously; from his height, he was designated to be around her age; he was tall, lanky, and not too graceful based on how he sat down. The book on his lap caught her attention, and from his glassy look he was pondering about something. She looked back on her book, and wondered if she should bother him. Her book was still on her lap waiting to be absorbed, but curiosity got the better of her.

His question made her jump and looked at him surprised. Had she been in her mind again for too long? It tended to happen.

"Yes, the N.E.W.T.s are coming up along with my O.W.L.s. Being my last year I cannot fathom failing at any of the subjects" she explained.

She couldn't help but add.

"And you, you're reading about patronuses?"

Tess tilted her head as he began to talk. He talked with his hands a lot, it was almost charming the way he waved his hands around, like he couldn't keep still. The conversation began easily enough, and she found him amusing, that is until it seemed that verbal diarrhea began to spill from his lips. She wasn't used to talkative people, let alone someone that pondered some many things about something that wasn't even his decision.

Patronuses were spirit guardians, they came from the soul, the magical core of all of them. She always pondered what hers would be, and while she'd cast a the spell before, she'd never form a real animal yet.

"Charlie you say...." she trailed off.

She actually felt a bit embarrassed for him. Her cheeks flushed for him, and she herself was mortified at how her innocent question escalated that awkward conversation.

"Well...shame you can't choose what the form will be" she said shyly, "Charlie is a good name I suppose"