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After dinner, while Bella is squirreled away in her and Tony's room reading her History textbook as though it's a fantasy novel (for the two bear significant resemblance)...
Artemis Burberry is in her room, on Patricia Hall, lamenting to her great horned owl about the lack of relatively private fireplaces for Floo calls here, and wondering where her roommate is.
(Who names their daughter "Sherlock", anyway?)
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occluminous
sparksflying
"Nah, he just gets like that," says Tony. "It's not anybody's fault. He'll cheer up eventually, it helps if you're nice and don't bug him when he's not feeling talky."
occluminous
"Oh. Okay. I guess it's good I found you first, then, I was going to ask him about it."
sparksflying
"I usually just hug him and tell him I love him and then leave him alone," Tony says cheerfully. "Your mileage may vary."
occluminous
"I did hug him yesterday, but there was no declaration of love," snorts Bella.
sparksflying
"Hugs are still good," Tony says wisely. "Hugs usually are."
occluminous
Bella finishes dinner, and bids Tony goodbye, and waves to Feral, and heads back to her room.
Sherlock makes no appearance at all, but lights out for the sixth graders isn't until ten and Bella wants to go to bed earlier than that, so she assumes he's off somewhere doing something and she goes to sleep.
Sherlock makes no appearance at all, but lights out for the sixth graders isn't until ten and Bella wants to go to bed earlier than that, so she assumes he's off somewhere doing something and she goes to sleep.
occluminous
That's really strange.
Bella gets dressed and packs for morning classes and goes to breakfast. Who's at breakfast?
Bella gets dressed and packs for morning classes and goes to breakfast. Who's at breakfast?
Feral is at breakfast!
occluminous
Okay! He probably can't help her with explaining her roommate but he is fine to sit with. She sits there. "Hi," she says.
"Hi! How're you doing?"
occluminous
"I'm okay, but something's up with Sherlock, I haven't seen him outside of class since the evening before classes started and he's been unfriendly all of a sudden in classes. How're you?"
"Same old, same old," he says. "Wonder what's up with your roommate."
occluminous
"Tony says he just gets like that sometimes, but that doesn't tell me what exactly 'like that' is."
"Hide-y?" suggests Feral.
occluminous
"And uncommunicative, like, I wouldn't be dwelling on it if I never saw him outside class but he still talked to me in class."
Feral shrugs. "I've had moods like that too. It's probably not the same thing, though."
"When I don't wanna talk to anybody? I dunno," he says, "I just... get fed up. Or scared, sometimes."
"People," says Feral. "They can be pretty nasty, y'know."