Open Surrounded by Ghosts

[Pixie Longmire]

Pixie was getting frustrated with how many students were studying in the places she liked to usually be, which was fine but it just meant that Pixie had fewer and fewer places where she could be in peace. She'd wandered around a lot and eventually found a spot tucked away in the back of the trophy room. It was a window sill, that was just enough for her to sit with a book or two out. but today she'd brought with her too the crystal ball. She'd like Divination, the professor seemed nice and she wanted to be good at it. She liked the idea of being able to see the future or being able to see some shapes. The room was peaceful enough though perhaps not dark enough for it, but she was looking pretty intensely into it. ​

 

[Louis Alcott]

Louis had been happy to win the duelling tournament for his year. It proved to him that he was good at something, even if he had been rejected for the Quidditch team. It had nearly been a year since that had happened, but it still stung. Louis knew he had to make it next year, he needed to help restore Gryffindor to glory. But at least now he had some glory of his own. He was curious to see if anything had appeared in the Trophy room yet, even though he thought it was perhaps a bit early. Louis headed into the trophy room looking around. He stopped when he noticed a girl sitting there by herself, studying. Louis frowned. "What are you doing?" He called to her from halfway across the room. "Are you lost?"

 

[Pixie Longmire]

Pixie was content on her own and really didn't expect that anyone would come here of all places, but after a little while she heard a voice of a student and looked up. She met the boy's gaze and then shook her head, raising the book slightly as if to say that she was studying. She wasn't going to make any other gesture or say anything, she didn't really believe that she needed to. If that wasn't enough to get what she was doing Pixie wasn't sure there was much else she could do. ​

 

[Louis Alcott]

Louis eyed the girl curiously when she didn't answer him. He saw she raised the book and he moved closer to her, looking at the title of the book. Most books were pretty boring to him, but seeing this was just a regular textbook was still pretty disappointing. "Why are you studying here?" He asked her. "You know there's a library, it's not even that far away." He told her, frowning. "Isn't it like, dark and lonely in here?" He asked, glancing around. "I just came to see if my name is on any of these yet." He added. "I won the duelling tournament, you might have seen." He added with a slight grin.

 

[Pixie Longmire]

Pixie wouldn't have answer the boy even if she wanted to, mostly because the boy continued speaking without giving her much of a chance to say anything. She leaned forward and glanced around at the trophies, she didn't know this boy's name so she wouldn't have been able to spot it even if she wanted to. After a second of looking she leaned back and just gave him a little shrug before looking back at her book.​

 

[Louis Alcott]

Louis thought the girl was a bit odd for being so quiet. She seemed to be older than him, did she just not want to talk to a younger student? He was a bit disappointed when she didn't say anything about having seen the duelling tournament or anything. "Okay, guess you don't want to talk." He said, shrugging, but then he thought of something else to ask so did it anyway. "Are you on any of these trophies yet?" He asked her, silently adding that she probably would be if there was a trophy for quietest person.

 

[Pixie Longmire]

Pixie would've thought the boy would leave after she hadn't really responded, but he didn't. She glanced back at the boy as he continued speaking, and then just shook her head at his question. She could've maybe answered that with words but she also hadn't needed to. It was just a question that she could answer without words and the boy's fault for asking a question which did allow that, though Pixie wouldn't have necessarily answered him if he had asked something that would've required a verbal answer. ​

 

[Louis Alcott]

Louis watched the girl as she shook her head, wondering why she didn't just say something. It was a bit weird, if he was honest. He shrugged. "I guess there's no quietest person trophy, then." He tried to joke, but he couldn't quite get his tone light. "Like, can't you talk? Or are you just being rude?" He asked her, a bit annoyed at being ignored.

 

[Pixie Longmire]

Pixie gave a little noise, a little laugh at his joke and then shook his head. She felt a little smile on her features quickly fade. She knew that people thought it rude, but at the very least the last statement hadn't needed her to say anything. "I don't like to," she replied with a quiet tone, she just didn't speak that often, didn't mind the silence. She knew it might be rude..but she didn't have an awful lot to say. Hopefully with the little she'd said the boy might get it. ​