Closed All that glitters

[Lorena Howard]

Lorena Howard felt that she would have been put in Slytherin no matter what she would have done. She liked it. The green looked rather good on her. She had her hair nearly brushed and she looked absolutely perfect. Not a strand or a wrinkle present. While she did not have Potions this semester, she still wanted to figure out where everything was at. She had a little map. Her mom was great to have given it to her. Her mom did go here, was sorted into Slytherin too. She knew the castle like the back of her hand. Lorena finally managed to find the Potions classroom, and it was empty. She didn't go in there yet, but it was tempting to get a head start on everything. She liked the idea of being ahead of everyone in her year.​

 

[Lincoln Cade]

The castle was like a maze and despite his best efforts his mother had given him no guidance about navigating it before he started. Something about finding his own way around the place and it being a rite of passage, which sounded like something his dad would say so he wondered how much influence he’d had in his mother’s advice. Lincoln was rooting around the dungeons trying to familiarise himself with his surroundings immediately around his new common room when he when he walked past the potions classroom and spotted someone inside who maybe wasn’t supposed to be there? At least she was in there alone. “Hey, are you supposed to be in here?”

 

[Lorena Howard]

Lorena nearly jumped out of her skin when she heard a voice from behind her. She did not expect someone to be there, but luckily, it was not a prefect or a professor. It was her peer, Lincoln Cade. Wasn't there a professor with that last name? Lorena had no idea how many Cades there were currently. "I mean, yes? No? I just wanted to peak in and get a head start. Nothing wrong with that, is there?" Lorena asked, though her voice was a little panicked from being caught. Lorena did not want to get in trouble. Her mom did work here, and so did her step-dad. What if they found out? "You aren't going to tell on me, are you, Lincoln?"​