Headmaster Brockert
February 24, 2017 6:58 PM
Fast and Furious! (nm) by Headmaster Brockert
Subthreads: A fair bit of folklore (Kira) by Winston Pierce with Kira Spaulding
The last morning (tag Dustin) by Louis Valois with Dustin Newell
Exploring the fair (tag: any booth group member) by Finn Scott with Lily Spencer
Splashing around (MARS room) by Tess Whittaker
Saying Goodbye (Tag Finn) by Juniper Brockert with Finn Scott
House Cup threads! by DH Skies with Jack Spencer, Tasha DuBois
Goodbye (tag Clark) by Araceli Arbon, Crotalus with Clark
After the Quidditch final (tag Clark) by Joella Curtis with Clark Dill
Time's up! by Headmaster Brockert
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Winston Pierce
February 25, 2017 9:14 AM
A fair bit of folklore (Kira) by Winston Pierce
The Israel group had split into a few research groups and Winston had opted to help Kira with the folklore aspect of the booth. Over the past months, he had come to see her as a friend, and he thought he was going to miss meeting up with her in the library next year.With the fair only a week away and their posters reaching completion, Winston was acutely aware that they were nearing the end of their shared project and it left him with a greater feeling of loss than triumph.
"Hey, Kira," he began, a little tentatively, because he wasn't sure if she felt the same way as he did. "Would be interested in studying some legends and folklore from other countries with me next year, just for fun? I've really enjoyed working with you on this and the stories we found are really interesting."
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Kira Spaulding
February 25, 2017 7:30 PM
A fair bit longer than I expected it to be. by Kira Spaulding
Kira hadn't wanted to sign up at all initially and only did because she felt Sophie wanted her to. She didn't know quite why Sophie wanted that, certainly they were close but she never thought Sophie needed her as much as she needed Sophie. Nobody needed Kira for anything except maybe in theory to do some bit of magic they couldn't do yet.And while it was fun to spend time together, this wasn't exactly sitting around eating cookies in Sophie's office and having a heart to heart chat. She had to be around other people and while one of them was Caelia, Kira wasn't really so comfortable around the others at least not at first. Most of the others were first years so she felt that she had to be an Example.
And because two of the first years(along with Alistair) were pureblood society boys, Kira also had to worry about if she was coming off as ladylike and proper enough. While Kelsey wasn't there for anyone but Alistair who was friends with her cousin to necessarily note the differences between the two of them that way, Caelia was and she too came across as more of an ideal pureblood lady than Kira did even if she was overall a nicer, sweeter person than Kelsey.
Then she hadn't even been researching the same thing as her friend, instead working in a group with Winston Pierce. However, gradually, she had begun to enjoy working with the first year.
However, when Winston spoke up that day, Kira was a little surprised by his suggestion. He actually wanted to spend time with her? And looking up folklore? She had always been into things like that-though truthfully she was more into fairy tales but she was afraid it would seem to childish to frame things that way- but even though the younger Crotalus had volunteered to work with her-which had surprised her in the first place as she'd assumed he or Simon or both would want to work with Alistair whom they knew from Quidditch. Besides, Kira was genuinely surprised anyone ever wanted to spend time with her. Even now, it surprised her that of all Ryan's cousins, Sophie had gravitated towards her, for example-she didn't know he was especially interested in it.
And then he actually wanted to continue spending time with her now that they were almost done?
"Sure." Kira replied shyly, blushing a little. True, Winston was a boy three years younger than her-possibly closer to four years given her birthday was the day after term started and she didn't know when his was-but she was never going to turn down spending time with someone who apparently liked her. That someone did made her feel good, in some ways even more than doing a difficult transfiguration within just a few tries. "I've had fun working with you too. Which country would you like to do? Maybe we could try a different region? Or maybe we'll see something from one of the other countries at the fair that we can delve into further."
Kira bent over her project, smiling to herself. She actually had another friend! "If nothing else, I have an aunt whose part Russian and she might be able to direct me towards some from there that I can share with you."
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Winston Pierce
February 25, 2017 8:44 PM
A fair bit indeed by Winston Pierce
Winston blinked, in surprise that Kira - who was enough older than him that he worried sometimes that she just saw him as a baby - seemed as eager to continue their story time together as he was, then he broke into a bright smile. "Russian stories sound great!" he enthused, figuring a personal connection might make the stories seem more meaningful than those from a random other country, though truthfully, Isreal hadn't had a very strong personal connection and those had proved quite fun to read anyway, so it probably didn't matter. Russia did sound good though.
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Kira
February 26, 2017 1:19 PM
Yeah, sorry about that. by Kira
Kira grinned. In the past, her shyness and low self-esteem had kept her from joining Book Club, something she would have been genuinely interested in except that she honestly didn't think people would respect her opinions and suggestions. This would be like Book Club but with just her and Winston, who must be interested in spending time with her since he was the one suggesting it in the first place. "Russia it is then."
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Winston
February 26, 2017 2:06 PM
No, it's good. by Winston
"Great!" Winston confirmed her confirmation, and bent down over the last of their booth posters, now feeling the pleased growing triumph at their near completion that had been missing earlier. "These are coming out really well, I think," he told Kira. "I'm glad I got to meet you and we could work together on them. Too bad our families won't be able to see all our good work, though."
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No, it's good.
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Kira
February 26, 2017 4:28 PM
Okay, good. by Kira
Kira nodded in agreement, blushing again. She was so not used to people wanting to be around her. "It was nice to meet you too. This isn't an interest I share with a lot of people." As far as she knew anyway since she often wasn't keen on telling people what she was into. Kira was afraid she'd be judged for what she liked, especially some of things that could be considered childish, like her desire to still collect American Witch dolls or her love of fairy tales or her dollhouse. Not that she played with dolls now, but she still liked them and wanted to keep collecting.And the dollhouse was how she knew her parents loved her. You didn't give something that elaborate and expensive to a child you didn't love.
"Yes, I mean a lot of mine actually will because I have a lot of cousins who go here and So-Professor O'Malley is actually married to one of my other cousins but I know what you mean. My parents won't get to see it. I take it none of your family currently attends school here though?" Kira asked.
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Winston
February 26, 2017 8:29 PM
This title took longer than the post by Winston
"Right," he agreed, chuckling a little. "That must be nice," he offered, the sentiment genuine. He missed his little sister and the Pierces that were here were more sources of embarrassment than consolation. "None I like to associate with anyway," he admitted a little ruefully. "There's other Pierces, but not from my branch of the family." He thought he could reasonably deny relation to the California Teppenpaw, as they looked nothing alike, but there was, unfortunately, no denying Four's nephew. Though Ben was only a second cousin, their looks were close enough that they could be mistaken for brothers.
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Kira
February 27, 2017 2:34 PM
Titles can be difficult by Kira
"It can be." Kira replied. In all actuality, it depended on the cousin. Kelsey was a source of well, jealousy she supposed, someone who made her feel inadequate and inferior. A person she felt she always being compared to unfavorably. And Chaslyn had seemed to out and out hate her for some reason. Then there was Carrie, but Kira had never been in school with her, thank Merlin. However as Winston was a new friend, she wasn't about to unload all that on him at this point.The fourth year nodded, feeling kind of stupid for not remembering Ginger or Ben Pierce right off as she'd had class with them both. As for her both sides of her family were all technically the same branch. Like, not that the Spauldings were the same as the Brockerts but there was only one branch of each. Of course, with Mother's family it did get complicated, because there were people she wasn't all that closely related to like Angelique but she knew other families worked differently and there were very distinct differences between the three Pierce branches. Truth be told, Ginger had always seemed quite nice but she didn't want to alienate Winston by saying so and lose a friend she just made. Besides, it wasn't as if he knew them. Or that she was friends with Ginger. "That's too bad. Do you have any siblings or anyone else from your branch that will be attending Sonora while you're here?"
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