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Bella is picked up from Charlie's house at the end of the summer, her visits with various people and her other parents having concluded a couple of weeks previous. She feels very worldly as she gets on the bus and is inspected by the new sixth-graders. The bus trundles along to the Bay Cauldron, and she does her shopping, and helps one of those sixth-graders pick an owl, and then they all arrive at ACAAM.
She goes to her and Sherlock's room to drop off her belongings and let Euterpe out.
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occluminous
Feral continues to produce bigger, shinier blobs.
"I feel like I'm missing something," he comments.
"I feel like I'm missing something," he comments.
"Some kind of something. I'm gonna sit and watch you guys for a bit," he declares, and sits down on the ground.
occluminous
Bella continues trying. She varies between getting mist and nothing at all, depending on whether she tries the mysteriously correct birthday present or anything else.
occluminous
Bella gets nowhere.
She quits at dinner, and reads other things, and then at nine-thirty knocks on her own door.
She quits at dinner, and reads other things, and then at nine-thirty knocks on her own door.
occluminous
"Hi. We've been practicing Patronuses but I can't get anything more than mist and I only get that much if I specifically concentrate on the book you got me when I turned eleven, nothing else does it. Feral and Tony are both way better at it. Do you want to see the spell?"
occluminous
Bella shows it to him from where she copied it into her notebook. "It's supposed to make a spirit animal guardian. Feral's definitely had, like, limbs, before I gave up. They're good against Dark creatures and also you can send them with unfakeable messages, when they're all formed up. I don't know why mine won't work."
nobodyelse
"I see," he says. "Do you mind if I practice this tonight?"
occluminous
"As long as you don't start till I'm asleep saying random words, it shouldn't wake me up. You aren't shouty with your incantations," shrugs Bella.
occluminous
Bella goes to bed shortly after, and doesn't take long to drop off and start saying things like "gray spire suet box".
nobodyelse
So Sherlock starts practicing his Patronus.
He's still at it when Bella wakes up the next morning - and therefore, uncharacteristically, still in the room.
He's still at it when Bella wakes up the next morning - and therefore, uncharacteristically, still in the room.
occluminous
Bella peers at him to see if he's gotten a shape to his yet.
occluminous
"Well, tell me what it is when you know, I guess." She hops out of bed and sets about getting ready for the day.
