me time

[Professor Elvera Le Fey]

Elvera had the day off. and today she was taking her day off off. overt the last year she felt like all of her time was spent either looking after the shop, making sure Morgan was okay, checking up on eden in her pregnancy, planning classes for her sixth years, and preparing classes for the fifth years. She didn't mind it, she liked having things to do. it wasn't until a colleague of hers mentioned it about a month ago that she realised that she hadn't had a day when she just did what she wanted to do without worrying about anything else for ages. today was the first day since then that she had been able to have the time, she had marked everything that needed marking, the shop was all stocked up, and she was sure that both her mother and sister would be able to look after themselves for a couple of days.
the first thing she had done was gone to Madame puddifoots for breakfast and had a nice chat with her cousin whilst she was there, it was a social call as she hadn't spoken to Maya for a while and she enjoyed her company. then she had had had a look around the shops in brightstone and purchased a new pair of gloves that she was now wearing, a deep velvet, with ribbon corseting up the back. next she had headed to Obsidian harbour, she had spent quite a while in the book shop looking at books on all variety of subjects, but she had left with only a novel in her hand, entitled the opposite of me then starting to grow hungry again she had gone to he ice cream shop and treated herself to a cookie dough ice-cream, she had been glad that it was the house elf that had served her, not Haruhi, or Eden. she left the shop quickly before the shop keeper or her twin entered and saw her. she wandered down the road a little until she found a bench that was overlooking the harbour. she took a seat and started to eat the ice cream as she watched the boats bobbing up and down.

 

[Michael Abernathy]

Michael was making his way around the magical village. It was a lot like Diagon Alley back home only it was on a Harbour and it was actually kind of warm. No matter what time of year it was, he always felt cold in Diagon alley. So far he hadn't bought anything, having purposely left most of his money in his flat to make sure he wouldn't spend it all at once. He had a habit of doing that in new places, Cal figured it would be about a month before he would settle in enough to be responsible with his money.

As Michael wondered he noticed his feet beginning to hurt, he had been walking for quite some time after all, and decided he would take a seat at the Harbour and watch the water play with the boats that sat upon it. As he looked around for a place to sit, Cal noticed that every bench was taken. This annoyed him slightly as it meant he would have to ask someone if he could sit next to them. Normally he wouldn't mind so much but his last, and only, contact with a stranger in this country started out quite loud and aggressive. He was really hoping that it was just bad luck and most of the people in New Zealand were nice enough to let him sit quietly.

Michael took a breath and walked up to the emptiest bench, only a woman sat upon it alone. "Do you mind if I sit here?" His normally strong voice came out as shaky and nervous, he was never one that could hide his emotions well. He took in the woman's appearance. She looked slightly like an alternative 50's pin up girl, not in the way she dressed but in the shape that she was. He only thought alternative because of the unique eye colour she possessed, one violet, one green, that was only made more pronounced by the long black hair floating around her face. She wasn't 'traditionally' beautiful but she was definitely attractive.

 

[Professor Elvera Le Fey]

Elvera was in her own world. she was enjoying her ice-cream. she had totally lost attention to what was going on around her. the chocolate ice-cream, spring sunlight and boats were sending her into a trance. when she heard someone nearby talk she jumped a little confused for a moment before she realised what they had said. she brushed some of her stray hair out of her face and looked at the man. "oh sorry, was totally zoned out. she said little flustered.
she moved along the bench so that she wasn't taking up the whole thing. "sure, take a seat" she replied realising that he seemed nervous. she smiled at him wondering what was up, "Are you okay?" she asked before realising that it was a rather personal question "sorry its personal and not for me to ask, you don't need to answer" she apologised, she didn't want to seem too nosey, although if she as nosey she would be able to find the answers if she wanted too, but sue wasn't a big fan of invading peoples privacy if they didn't want her to. "I'm Elvera, Elvera Le Fey" she said deciding that she should introduce herself, she offered her hand to shake. she looked up at him wondering who he was. he seemed a few years older than her, but not many. he also seemed a little confused, and nervous, as though he hadn't been to the harbour many times and was still trying to get used to the place.