Wally the Great Horned Owl
June 25, 2005 11:58 AM
Letter for Sorrel Craven by Wally the Great Horned Owl
It was morning when Wally the Great Horned Owl arrived in the Pecari common room. He had a lot of deliveries to make today, which made him very happy. Humans seemed to love to send letters to each other. He certainly liked delivering them, sometimes he even got treats. But there was no one in the Pecari common room to give him a treat. This annoyed him, and he almost stayed there to wait for a human to come give him a treat. But there were places to go, letters to deliver. Wally dropped the letter to the ground, and flew off, without a care in the world as to what the letter in blue ink labled To: Sorrel Craven, Pecari From: Coach Cooper said.Dear Sorrel Craven,
It is my pleasure to inform you that you have been made captain of the Pecari house quidditch team. Congratulations! Your duties as Quidditch captain will include scheduling team practices, devising plays, and working with your teammates. As your house has enough players for a full team, you can set up a practice at the Quidditch Pitch with me as soon as possible. If you have any questions, please feel free to see me at the Quidditch Pitch. Good luck!
Coach Cooper
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Captain Sorrel
June 26, 2005 3:41 PM
glaring omission by Captain Sorrel
OOC - setting this before the duststorm, cos I don't know how that's gone yet. Hope that's kosher.IC
Sorrel ambled down the stairs, mousy hair tatty and still wearing her Bart Simpson pajamas. She promptly trod on the scroll addressed to her. It was lucky that she did really, otherwise she might not have noticed it. Ever.
Curious as to who'd be writing to her - it wasn't her mother or grandmother's writing, and the only other person she really knew who knew how to owl mail was nine and was scared of her - she picked up the letter.
She unrolled the scroll, confused, and as she read it grew euphoric. Then, as she finished, and it sunk in what was being asked of her - and just her - her heart sank. Why her? Why her in itself was puzzling enough, though she wasn't going to object to that. It had struck her as odd at the game last year... She and Ash were, in every sense besides their appearances, identical twins. They thought the same, did the same... But twice now, she'd been put above him. The only thing she could think of that made her stand out from Ash was that she had a slightly quicker temper, a quality which she'd never thought any authority figure would reward. It was stupid, it was unfair. No one dumped on her twin, or ranked her higher than him except her!
She glanced around. He wasn't around. The scroll still clutched tightly in her hand, she made her way up to her room, grabbing her bag off the floor and shutting herself in the bathroom. She didn't want her roommates to see what she was doing, and know Coach Cooper's original intention. She wasn't giving them that power to blackmail her with, or to hurt Ash with. The outside, she could do nothing about doctoring, so she took the ink eraser she'd got in her stocking last year from her bag and scrubbed that off. Then it was just a case of adding his name after hers on the first line, and an 's' to every instance of 'captain'. Now it was a bearer of good news.
She slipped back into the Common Room, and ran towards the boys' stairs.
"Ash!" she called, "Ash, you have to see this!" She was thrown back by the corridor. Shaking her head, she blinked. It had let her through a few times, but it seemed to be totally arbitrary. Still, now she AND Ash were captains, even the stupid corridor couldn't dampen her high spirits. \r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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