Dungeon Corridor

[JadieLou]

[Emmalynne St. Pierre]

Emmalynne was significantly less hyper than normal, simply because she disliked the feeling she got from wandering through the corridors directly outside the Hufflepuff common room. But she'd felt even more stifled inside the room, so, taking Doc with her, she'd left. Hoping she could run into someone to talk to. She still hadn't decided if she was going to take up Hailey's offer to teach her guitar, and she wanted to try and meet as many others as possible anyway. She just needed to talk to someone, and while the purple pygmy puff currently precariously perched on her slender shoulder was okay to have one-sided conversations with, he didn't react to her bubbliness like people did.

So she'd decided to go searching for anyone. Didn't matter who, since she could talk to literally anyone at the moment. Even weird catatonic boy from the courtyard with Hailey, even though something told her she could bug him in the common room if she ever saw him again. So maybe not him either. But staying inside her head with no one to talk to was driving her batty.

[Alexandria Silverton]

Alex finally decided to escape Will for the time being, it wasn't that she didn't like the girl or anything like that; it was just that she wanted to talk to someone who was a little more sane which she wasn't sure was actually possible, seemed like anyone who was normal at one point had completely went crazy from being around during the battle. Fortunately she was one of the lucky ones who only ended up having nightmares which constantly reminded her how truly lucky she was to have survived that without any physical scars.

Heading down into the dungeon corridor, she felt the cold of the area on her skin and it sent a shiver rolling down her spine; as she continued walking, she noticed someone down here who looked like they were around her age and she needed to meet some more people around this school.

[Emmalynne St. Pierre]

Emmalynne had started idly wondering why nobody had apparently decided to try and make the dungeon corridors more inviting, since she had yet to run into anyone in her wandering. And even Doc's quiet squeaking had quieted down, as if the pygmy puff was even getting bothered by his surroundings. Which only depressed Emmalynne more. Sighing, she glanced around once again.

At which point she noticed a girl heading the other way, kind of towards her, and she couldn't help but grin excitedly. Yay for someone to talk to, even though as the girl got closer she noticed a Slytherin tie around her neck. Emmalynne hadn't quite decided her opinion on Slytherins yet, but she also hadn't ever talked to too many of them. So she had to start somewhere. "Hi!," she called out animatedly, accidentally jostling her pygmy puff off her shoulder and having to quickly shift to catch him before he fell to the hard ground. Probably not the best idea having him on her shoulder in the first place anyway. "Is it just me, or is it kind of creepy down here?," she asked the other girl as she recovered from the almost injury to her pet, returning to her bright expression as she looked over at the blonde. She looked maybe a little bit older, but that had never stopped Emmalynne.

[Alexandria Silverton]

As the girl spoke to her, Alex sighed slightly; so this was going to end up like how she met Will hopefully not as extreme though. "It is a bit creepy down here if you're not used to it, course I've spent enough time down here to be used to the feeling." she said with a slight shrug as she could see her breath in front of her since it was so cold in the dungeons seeing as they were underneath the lake.

She leaned against the wall and put her hands in the pockets of her blue jeans, things here were definitely different; even being in the dungeons didn't feel the same as it used to but that would change soon enough seeing as things were about to try to return to normal.

[Emmalynne St. Pierre]

Emmalynne's head tilted slightly to the left as curiosity about the other girl's response to her greeting came over her. Still cradling Doc carefully in her hands, she shrugged, however, as she got a response to her question. So far she didn't seem to have ended up on this girl's bad side, although she couldn't quite tell exactly where she was in that respect. May as well just keep going with her conversation.

"I guess I just don't want to adapt. I really kind of wish my common room wasn't way down here, cause it just always makes me all cold and kind of claustrophobic," she said noncommittally as the girl leaned against the wall. But then she tried to get to happier topics. "Anyway, I'm Emmalynne St. Pierre. What's your name?," she said, words bubbling out of her as she tried to get back to her cheerful self. Introductions always worked for that, right? They did for her, usually, at least.

[Alexandria Silverton]

Alex brushed some of her blonde hair back from in front of her face to look at the girl who was talking to her, she seemed like she was actually one of the few normal people around this school after all. "I'm Alexandria Carter, but I perfer to be called Alex because it's less formal." she said with a slight nod as she watched the little pygmy puff in Emmalynne's hands, she'd not seen one of those little pets in a long time since it had been a while since she had worked with a lot of creatures.

[Emmalynne St. Pierre]

Emmalynne grinned as her introduction was returned. "Alex," she repeated, "That makes sense, even though Alexandria is a beautiful name. Kinda a lot for people to say in normal conversation. I've never really thought about shortening my name, and nobody's ever tried." She was being honest there, too. She'd never had the slightest feeling she should come up with her own nickname.And nobody had ever given her any, but she'd always assumed that was because people preferred keeping her at a distance. She couldn't help her temperament, and it bugged her that others couldn't handle it.

Next thing she knew, Alex was looking down at her hands, and she glanced down as she'd almost forgotten about how she'd ended up holding Doc. Returning her hazel eyes to the blonde, she smiled again. "Did you want to see him? His name's Doc. Well, Caradoc, really, after one of my mom's cousins, but I call him Doc. He's kind of my baby." It didn't even occur to her to be more careful around the other girl, who didn't look like she was dangerous. Not to her, at least.

[Alexandria Silverton]

"Ah well thank you, my parents named me from one of my relatives who was a brilliant Quidditch player. Hmm, it's really not that difficult to shorten your name; since I'd rather not say your whole name since it's rather a mouthful, I'll just call you Emma." Alex said with a slight nod, not many people actually knew her entire name and she was going to keep it that way since they didn't need to know her middle name since she kind of found it a little embarassing although it wasn't her decision to begin with. "Sure, I used to work with pygmy puffs back in my 3rd year; rather interesting creatures they are, quite deciving at times. Doc, hmm that's certainly an creative name although whatever works for you I guess." she added with a slight shrug, surprising that the girl didn't think that Alex would hurt her little pygmy puff but she wouldn't anyway.

[Emmalynne St. Pierre]

Emmalynne shrugged as Alex explained how she got her name, and then smiled. "I don't know where my parents got my name from. I do now why they gave me my middle name, though. Cause that came from my birthday, cause I was born on Christmas Eve. And my middle name was Noelle." And it didn't really occur to her that Alex might not care to know every little thing about her. "Oh. That's fine," she said with a laugh as it was said that she was going to be called Emma by Alex. "I don't know why nobody's ever thought of that before."

And then Alex accepted the offer to see Doc, and she held the little purple puffball out. "Okay. He's really sweet," she said as she waited for the blonde to pick him up. "And I don't think his name's that creative. But I like it." She'd never really seen her pet as deceiving, but maybe Alex knew more about them than she did. She'd only been around Doc, after all. Maybe he was a weird pygmy puff.

[Hermina von Lohenstein]

Moving along the corridors with a large bag of books beneath her arms, Hermina was walking towards the Potions classroom to hand back a few borrowed books and other stuff. While walking she read them, taking her mind off completely from the road ahead. In this state, she almost wandered into two persons in front of her, swerving just in time to avoid an embarrassing collision.

Steadying herself, she muttered a hello and continued: "I'm sorry for that, this one took my mind off the road ahead." And thus she held up the book in her hand. "So anyway, I'm Hermina von Lohenstein, Hufflepuff third year. But please do call me Mina, Miss von Lohenstein makes me feel like a sixty-year old. Anyway again, what brings you two down here on such a beautiful day?"

[Alexandria Silverton]

Just as Alex was about to reply to Emma, she noticed someone with a pile of books heading in their direction; what was it with Hufflepuffs and their random amount of books? "Nice to meet you Mina; I'm Alexandria Carter, Slytherin 5th year but please call me Alex since it's just a lot less formal." she said then extended her hand slightly, trying to read what this girl was all about; from what she could see there wasn't anything special about her which was odd since most of the people that Alex had met earlier definitely had something curious about them.

"Ah well, I just wanted to wander around the dungeons, doesn't matter the weather; it's always cold and a little creepy down here but I find it quite peaceful." she didn't exactly care how odd that sounded since she was a Slytherin after all, the last of the old breed who were all killed off the previous term.

[Emmalynne St. Pierre]

Emmalynne's contemplation of if Doc was a weird pygmy puff or not was derailed as soon as she saw someone else coming down the corridor toward her and Alex. And it was a good thing it seemed Alex hadn't picked Doc up from her hands, too, because she pulled her hands back excitedly a couple seconds before the new girl swerved to avoid them. "Hi!," she said animatedly as the new girl introduced herself after an apology. "It's okay. Nobody got hurt," she added with a smile, ignoring her pygmy puff's annoyed squeaks for the moment. He stopped a few seconds later, as she continued talking.

"It's nice to meet you Mina. I'm a Hufflepuff too. Emmalynne St. Pierre. Fourth year. You can call me Emma if you like. Alex just decided that was what she was going to call me. You like reading?" Emmalynne didn't necessarily share that, unless it was fantasy novels, so she found it intriguing. Especially since the book Mina had been looking at seemed like it was about Potions. She giggled, though, as Alex brought up the creepiness of the corridor. "I had been heading upstairs, from the common room, when I ran into Alex," she explained, completely not thinking that her giggle might have seemed odd. "I had been kind of bored. But now I'm not."

[Hermina von Lohenstein]

"You like it creepy? That's interesting..." Hermina said wholeheartedly as she shook Alexandria's hand. "I myself don't. Suum Cuique... To each her own, I guess. So hows was your summer, ladies?" She chuckled and then turned over to Emmalynne.

"Hello Emma! The pleasure is on my side." Looking down into her arm and the bundle of books at Emma's comment, Hermina blushed a little and said quickily: "Yes, I do like reading. Gives me a break from the world, no I love reading books and filling this thing with stuff." She pointed towards her head, smiling. "St Pierré... Do you happen to be French Emma? I'm German by the way, but I can speak a bit French too." With that said she tucked her books in her bag and stated: "Summer for me involved a lot of schoolwork. Latin and History courses. I like History, it's one of my interests."

[Alexandria Silverton]

"Well like I said I find it peaceful, being down here by myself allows me to think and figure out plans for this term." Alex said with a slight smile as she fixed her tie slightly so that she wouldn't be in trouble with the Prefects and the Head of House for not having her uniform in order. "Well my summer was interesting, I sorta spent a lot of time by myself since I was a little shaken up from witnessing the last Great Battle and all the deaths that came with it last term." she added, trying to figure out how she could divert this conversation away from this topic because she didn't want to have to discuss that again.