Possibilities

After battling with the knocker outside the door, trying to figure out what the answer of 'What is a unicorn's best friend?' Talon quickly fell onto the couch that sat in the common room, his face buried in the pillow. It wasn't that late at night and not everyone had returned yet for the evening, but right now, Talon felt exhausted. After longs sessions of classes and meeting up with his old fling, he just felt like he needed a nap, something he had never granted himself due to his abnormal heavy sleeping. It was tempting though to just lie there and fall asleep, to wake up the next morning with no regrets, yet he knew he had to get some extra schoolwork done. Sometimes being a wizard was a serious pain in the rear.

He pushed himself off from the cushions, stretching out his body to get the blood flowing through his veins, only to fall back down on his rear, slouching heavily on the couch. His mind still felt burdened by the coming days, mainly just due to his friend dying. It had been a while since he had heard the news about Sapphire, yet he still couldn't get her out of his head. He thought he had a real good chance with her...and to just hear that she was dead? His body grew cold and tense, his eyes closing themselves. Slowly, his mind began to fade, the thoughts about his dead friend seemingly growing distant, his worries suddenly evaporating. His last thought before losing conscientiousness was 'is there a way to remove that damn knocker?'

Bella stood at the Ravenclaw door, playing with her straightened blonde hair, the knocker spoke in a wispy voice,

"I can be any size or shape and I can have the same volume, perimeter and area of anything. I can bend and flex and fit through anything. I can fly. And I can fall. I can be hot and cold. You can't hurt me. But I can kill you in a matter of minutes. I can weigh a gram and I can weigh 500 tons. If I am big enough, I can smush anything. I can be 2 inches tall or 500 feet tall. What am I?"

Bella had never encountered such a long riddle, she pondered about each line, repeating them in her head, "The answer is water" she said in a clear voice, and the door swung open.

She saw a boy hanging half on the common room couch, and half on the ground sleeping...
"Hello..." she said, in a bubbly voice, wondering whether she should have attempted waking him up.

Talon immediately jumped, his body seemingly having an electric current run through every pore, his heart pumping more blood fiercely now. He turned his head over to the entrance of the common room and saw a girl standing there, talking to him. That must've been what woke him up. "Hello there," he said, turning his head back into his chest, his body attempting to throw itself back into sleep. To prevent this, he quickly threw himself off of the luxurious couch, his weary body walking in several paces back and forth. He needed a five hour energy or something.

"Umm...hello there, name's Talon, sixth year Ravenclaw, I do well on tests, and I speak a little of Latin and my homeland is America," he said quickly in an attempt to give himself some energy. Most of it was directed to himself, his gaze lowered to the ground as he spoke. It was as if he had forgotten that the girl had stood there in front of him. "Uhh..sorry, I'm just trying to wake up. Been having a few bad nights...seems as if I got my point across though," he said again, fairly quickly.

She watched as he immediately jumped, at the sound of her voice, "Hello there" he replied. "Oh, hi Talon," she said, twisting her blonde hair in her fingers, 'I'm Bella, fourth year Ravenclaw" she said. "Although I might look dumb, don't be fooled" she said smiling.

He was gazing at the ground, she thought, he was mostly directing the speech at himself, but she wasn't sure.

"That's fine, I haven't slept well lately, but I doubt my reason the same as yours" she said, half-heartedly smiling. He seemed nice, he was handsome, and obviously smart, or he would't be in Ravenclaw, "Do you want to talk about" she said.

Talon peered over again at the girl, his blood starting to flow evenly once more. He could feel himself wake up more by the second, almost to the point where he could form a coherent sentence without too much thought. He stopped for a moment, his eyes hut tightly and his fingertips rubbing them. He had been glad this girl had entered, he didn't feel like being woken up by another random Ravenclaw student at 6 in the morning, the last time that had happened was very embarrassing. "No, you don't look dumb at all," he said "I probably look dumb for passing out the way I did...Ehh." At least he learned the girl's name, Bella.

"Uhh, no, I've just been staying up late it all," he said casually, shrugging his shoulders up and down "y'know, with all of the studying and the exams, it can get pretty stressful." He wasn't being entirely truthful, but he didn't feel as if he should involve her in what he was really doing. "Anyway, Bella, I haven't seen you around the common room at all, and I've been here for six years. When do you usually hang in this place?"

He peered over her, as he was now able to make sentences. "Oh, trust me, Im dumb, actually I'm more ditzy, Sooo... I don't know why I'm in this house. "You look fine" she in an convincing tone, while smiling.

"Oh ok, I've just been having nightmares myself, and I have insomnia, but I don't care, it gives me more time to think, and ponder over my day". " I know, I'm studying for my OWLs next year, and I bet your learning for your NEWTs is even harder, I don't know how you stand it ".

" I'm usually outside, I sneak out, I know it isn't very good habits, but the moonlight reels me out, and most the time I'm sitting at the Hufflepuff table, that's wre most my friends are, where do you hang out?"

John sat in a corner his back pressed against the cold stone as one foot pressed against another keeping him steady as he balanced a big book on his knee he had kept quiet as he studied listening to those around him but feeling the warmth of the fire warm him so he could focus he liked the night as it was quiet and he could think better in the quiet . He heard two voices and looked up from his book about magical creatures. for the moment he just sat watching the two people and then he could not help coughing as the dust settled from the book he held. Closing it he stood up his bare feet giving away the fact he cared not for shoes when he was going no where.

" um...sorry wasn't listening in" he said holding the book against his chest " I was just doing some research " he held up the book as he spoke to the both, " if you want I could go but the answer to your problem is right in front of you" he smiled as he spoke again "Unicorns prefer a woman's touch, but the young ones are more trusting and do not mind men as much. their also fleet-of-hoof so they're rarely caught by humans." he stood looking at them both " sorry guess you'd call me a book worm"

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