Sorrel Craven
February 03, 2005 3:54 PM
Stress relief by Sorrel Craven
Sorrel found herself wishing she had gone home for Christmas. Sonora had yeilded nothing overly interesting, and had provided plenty of disappointments. She and Ash had had to open their stockings in the Common Room, rather than as just them. She wished she'd taken the break she'd been offered. She hated it here!It wasn't just that the teachers were boring, and she didn't get along with a lot of people. That was the same as Muggle school. She didn't care that she wasn't popular, because popularity didn't matter to her. She had a few mates, and studying wasn't her priority, so she didn't care if her teachers were turning her off learning. It was being seperated from Ash. For all they fought, for all they never admitted to anyone else that each other really mattered to them, they did.
He was here with her, which was something, but the times she'd shared with him when they'd been at home which were the most important ones were the ones she was deprived of here. Night times. If anything upset you, or moved you, night time was the one time you could admit it. They couldn't see faces in the dark, and after the things that would never be said during the day, because they were too stupid and sentimental, or showed you had a weakness, after those things had been said, you could just drift to sleep. It wasn't like if you tried those talks in daylight and then there was that awkward moment where you tried to descend back into some normal type of activity or conversation. You slept it away and by morning it was all back to normal. But now she didn't have that. Every bit of pain and anger that she'd experienced since starting here were still pent up inside her. The pain was made more accute by knowing that she couldn't let it out, and also the feeling that there was a gap being driven between her and Ash. She knew he'd be feeling hurt too, and that there were key moments of his feelings that she was missing out on. The last straw had been broken when Connell had seperated them in class. It wasn't bad enough that they weren't able to see each other at the time that was most important to them, but she'd gone and...
Sorrel would get her revenge on Connell for it. There wasn't even any question on that. But her revenge schemes were always creative. She would come up with some entirely appropriate punishment for Connell, but she couldn't focus on it until she'd got some of the rage out of her system. She wasn't the worst at magic, but she was no Princess of Pecari either. She knew practising her revenge would build up a certain degree of frustration, so it was necessary to get most of the existing stuff out of her system now. Otherwise she'd end up trashing the library, and that had to wait until the librarian pissed her off.
"HUH!" she yelled, kicking the air. It was hardly surprising that both twins had taken numerous karate lessons. Kicking air was less than satisfying though. What she really needed was something solid to practice on. But Ash was inside... She spun around, looking for something to practice on. One of the trees seemed to have fallen, and was lying semi-rotted on the edge of the paths. Sorrel twisted, kicking as hard as she could at one of the smaller branches that was sticking up. It flew off with a fantastically satisfying CRACK. \n\n
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Tally
February 03, 2005 5:29 PM
Not a target of frustration, thanks by Tally
Tally was walking aimlessly throughout the school maze. She wasn't worried about getting lost anymore, she'd done that enough and had always found her way eventually, and she wasn't even afraid of the creatures that lived on these paths. No, she was far to preoccupied for such things.Tally was completely lost within her own thoughts. Christmas had been nice, even though her father had to leave early for a mission, which had caused Tally to act like a little brat and scream at him to stay. She sighed at that memory, not her best moment. Tally hardly ever lost her temper, but when it came to her father and brother, she wanted them for herself.
Now back here at Salem, she was making her own home. She wasn't worried about being accepted. Her father, a muggleborn, had raised her with both magical and muggle background, having her go to an elementary school. There she had made friends, none her own gender, but that suited her just fine. Here though, there were so many of them with all sorts of different backgrounds. Chrissy, her long time frined from childhood, made friends easily. Tally, however, chose to keep friends limited. Mia was alright, a little dominating though, and Sally was just strange. Both girls were the opposite to what Tally had grown up with.
Lissy the ghost had been entertaining, but she was a ghost. Jake and Stephen were fun to be around and much like the boys she had befriended before heading off to salem. She supposed even Jennifer was nice, but still just another girl doing what girls do.
Tally wanted to run around, explore, fly, something, anything. Chrissy flew, but nothing more. Tally's old adventures came from the boys who would take her on hikes or throw her into lakes, they'd explore the caves around the neighborhood or break into the haunted house. You didn't grow up with just a father and brother and not get some of their personalities for nothing. Yes, exploring was what Tally loved and she desperately wanted to do so here. She wanted to get dirty.
She took out her toad, Tad, and absentmindedly stroked him as she walked. She was brought out of her thoughts when something hard hit her roughly on the head. Tally turned around in anger and cried out,
"Hey! Freaking watch it, I'm walking here!" Her eyes fell on a girl. Tally had seen her in class, but had never spoken to her. She's the one with the twin, right? Tally thought as she studied her, "What'd you do that for anyway?" She asked as she pulled the leaves from her hair that the branch had left behind.\n\n
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Sorrel Craven
February 04, 2005 7:44 AM
Then don't get yourself in hit range by Sorrel Craven
'Hey! Freaking watch it, I'm walking here!'She seemed to have hit someone. Cool! Sorrel wasn't mean enough, or even in enough of a bad temper to be pleased at having caused someone else pain, but she was rather gratified by how impressive that meant her kick must have been. On the one hand, she just thought that anyone who was stupid enough to get in the way of her strop deserved whatever they got. But the girl had at least said 'freaking'. She sounded slightly aggressive... Not pink and fluffy, for sure.
"Well I'm freaking hitting stuff. It's your problem if you're not going to look where you're going. And," she said, chopping at another sticking up branch with her hand (the branch snapped off and fell next to the tree) "I'm practising karate." There was no need to tell the girl it was for stress relief. The fact that she was
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Tally
February 04, 2005 9:08 AM
I didn't do it on purpose! by Tally
Tally stood there rubbing the spot on the back of her head where the branch had hit her. Her face was contorted in anger as she listened to the girl. She hadn't even apologized. Tally thought."It's not like I have eyes in the back of my head, you know." Tally said rather rudely, but she frankly didn't give a hoot. Especially if the girl was blaming her for the branch hitting her. Tally watched the girl chop at the branch, she was still angry, but more out of the fact that it prevented her from being bored than actually being mad at the girl.
Tally made a move to turn away when her eyes widened and she looked down at her hands. Tad (a.k.a. T.J.) was gone. Her beloved frog, gift from her brother, was no longer resting peacefully in her hands. During the commotion, Tally must have dropped him or he might have jumped for safety and she hadn't realized it. He was only still a baby and things could eat him easily out here.
"Tad?" Tally called out as she dropped onto her hands and knees to look. "Tad, come back here!" Her green eyes searched frantically, her hand swiping her long hair out of her eyes while patting the ground in search for her frog. Can't catch a damn break here, can I? Tally thought and muttered, "Stupid bloody frog..." Tally swore loudly as one of the many plants in the paths nipped her. She swung hard and backhanded the thing, which caused it to make some strange noise. She ignored it and continued with her search, swearing again for good measure, though muttering it under her breath as she crawled.\n\n
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Sorrel
February 04, 2005 4:19 PM
Doesn't make it <i>my</i> fault. by Sorrel
Well duh. Sorrel didn't have eyes in the back of her head either. And the ones in the front had been focussing on her target which, contrary to what this knucklehead seemed to believe, was the tree, and not her. Not that that made it the girl's fault exactly, but it wasn't Sorrel's either. And not that she seemed to be entirely knuckle headed, but Sorrel wasn't going to admit that.She raised her eyebrows as the girl cursed and gave the plant what-for. Ok, it was only a whimpy old plant, but she still seemed a little... less frilly than the other girls. Though she seemed to be having a geek thing over her pet. If it turned out to be a fluffy little kitten with big eyes, Sorrel was going to more than retract the neutral to good opinion she was forming of the girl.
Sorrel was about to go back to karate chopping her branch - it would never do to look like she was actually interested - when she noticed something on the tree. Something she didn't want to mash, because it was cool. She tensed, her eyes locking with the creature's. It seemed to read her mind, or instinct just kicked in. There was the moment when their eyes locked when it took them both a moment to get over the surprise of finding each other there, then both reacted like lightning; Sorrel grabbed at the frog and the frog made to bolt. Sorrel was quicker.
"Gotcha!" she crowed triumphantly. Tally's comment about it being a frog having been muttered, Sorrel hadn't caught it, and so failed to make the connection. "What are you looking for?" she asked, as she stuffed the frog in her pocket to prevent the heat of her hands burning the cold blooded creature to death. \n\n
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Doesn't make it <i>my</i> fault.
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Tally
February 04, 2005 5:51 PM
Technically, I never said it was by Tally
Tally was still searching frantically for her frog. Josh had given it to her making her promise to take good care of it. And Tally never wanted to let her brother down. As she continued to search, the other girl's voice reached her and Tally looked distractedly up at her.Tally's face was smudged with dirt and her robes were now dirty from crawling around. It took Tally a moment to realize what the girl had asked and her voice ended up sounding frantic when she replied,
"TAD! My frog!" Tally stood up and kicked the tree that the girl was fighting with, which only caused pain to shimmy up her leg, causing another curse word to leave Tally's lips, "I can't find him. I have to find him! I promised Josh I'd take care of him." Tally, now slightly limping, continued to turn in circles and look everywhere for her little frog, "TAD!" She cried out again, forgetting the girl beside her.\n\n
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Sorrel
February 05, 2005 1:02 PM
So? There's nothing wrong with being defensive! by Sorrel
"Chill," said Sorrel, though the girl's temper and panic were something she wasn't sure she wanted going away. They were rather interesting... Muddy and curse filled. "There was a frog on the log a second ago..." she fished in her pocket, "This him?" she asked, holding the squirming creature out to the girl."And if you want to attack the tree, you need to pick a part that's at least a little rotted. Either that, or somehow saw it into planks," she advised.
"You own a frog?" she asked, sitting on the bench. She didn't add 'cool', but her tone was approving, and there was a certain camaraderie in the way she added, "I have a spider." \n\n
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So? There's nothing wrong with being defensive!
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Tally
February 05, 2005 1:43 PM
only if you have feeling of guilt...do you? by Tally
Tally gave the girl a rather rude look when she was told to chill. Obviously this girl didn't understand the importance of finding her frog. Magical or not, Tally doubted that Tad would be able to find his way back to the school without being eaten on the way there. However, at the mention of seeing a frog, Tally whirled around to face the girl. Sure enough, there was Tad struggling to release himself from the girls hands. A large smile of relief spread across Tally's face,"Yes! Thank you!" Tally said as she reached out and took the frog from the girls arms. Tally's eyes focused down at the frog, "Silly frog, what would you have done if a bird came along and wanted you for dinner?" She stroked the frog, who now sat contently in the palm of her hand, out of affection anyway, "This is Tadpole Jr., my brother gave him to me for my birthday back in August. Tadpole Sr. is my brother's frog." Tally explained to the girl. "Er-sorry about losing it there. It's just that, well, I just can't lose him that's all." Tally explained, still dirty and slightly embarrassed by her actions. "I suppose I inhereited my father's bad language." Tally said with a chuckle.
At the mention of spiders, Tally shuddered inwardly. She could deal with amphibians, reptiles, bugs, and animals of all kinds, but spiders and her just didn't mix. However, she didn't tell this girl this. Taking a seat on the ground, she was already dirty so what difference did it make now? Tally looked up at her,
"Cool. What kind and where'd you get it?" Tally sensed that the either angry or frustrated, she couldn't be sure of which. But she didn't comment on it and didn't want to have to explain how she had known.
OOC: Tally's an empath. Already have the permission and such, just thought you ought to know.\n\n
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Sorrel
February 05, 2005 2:04 PM
No! Poor defensiveness. What do you have against it? by Sorrel
OOC - I guessed (have schooled with an empath elsewhere) but thanks for the heads up. Lets me get some nice irony in. *g* You gotta love that crazy ol' irony!BIC
"Nice names," she grinned, "My spider is called 'Spider' at the moment." She still found it nauseating that Tally was so gooey over her pet, but when she said her brother had given it to her... It quelled the 'how lame and anal can you be over a dumb animal?' feeling with a little bubble of understanding. She and Ash didn't tend to give each other long lasting presents - dung bombs tended to be a standard gift - but she knew how she'd feel if he gave her something. Or if he did and she lost it. Still, she wasn't going to go into a whole empathetic discussion about it. IT wasn't her style. She pushed the thoughts on her brother away, glad there was no way the girl could tell what she'd been feeling (she never gave it away in her face, except to Ash).
"I found her in the back of my closet," Sorrel explained. "I keep her in a big glass jar. Though she could really do with a bit more room. And I'm not really sure what kind. Just... big. Looks like a normal spider, but that got hit with an engorgio or something. She'll be great for warding off the girly-girls," she added, with a roll of her grey eyes. \n\n
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No! Poor defensiveness. What do you have against it?
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Tally
February 05, 2005 2:55 PM
Me? Nothing to my knowledge by Tally
Tally smirked and nodded her head in thanks as the girl complimented her frog's name. She placed Tad in her lap so that she could lean back on her hands and be more comfortable. Her smirk turned into a grin when the other girl told her that her spider's name was spider. Everyone had their thing, Tally believed, so the spider as a pet, though not something Tally would want and glad she didn't share a dorm with the girl, she understood it all the same.The thought of a gigantic spider being in her closet. She still didn't know her dorm mates, so she'd probably have to ward it off herself and that wasn't very likely.
Tally laughed when the girl spoke about using the spider to ward of girly-girls. Tally had nothing against anyone, so she had no need for things, but she knew that certain personalities just didn't mesh. Apparantly this girl wasn't too fond of girls who liked girl things.
"Not a fan of them then, are you?" Tally asked more rhetorically than anything. "Have to ward some off yet?"\n\n
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Sorrel
February 05, 2005 4:51 PM
So why are you being so mean about it? Hmmm? by Sorrel
"I wouldn't think you were either," commented Sorrel, eyeing the dirt on the girl's clothes and the frog in her hands. "And I haven't yet, but only cos I haven't caught the Princess at it. I just woke up to find myself gagging on nail varnish fumes." She pulled a disgusted face."Ash is the one that really needs girl repellant though. It's pathetic. For some reason some people think he's 'cute'," she did air quotes, to show it was a word she would normally despise using, and pulling a mystified beyond belief face. "A couple of girls at our old school had these stupid crushes on him. It was so pathetic. We were what... nine? They learnt the first time we splattered their pretty pink skirts with mud that he and they weren't really into the same things," she grinned evily. She didn't tend to ramble. For her, that had been excessive. It was so flittery and twittery and girly. But when related to mud and worms, she could ramble a little. So much that she'd neglected to explain who Ash was. "Though if he wants to avoid them now he can just shut himself in his room," she added, "Does your house have those gay corridors too that spit you back out if you try and go in the other sex's room?" she asked.
OOC - once again apologies for using the word 'gay' to mean 'cruddy'. I totally hate it, but it's sadly the sort of thing Sorrel and Ash say. They're ten and don't know better. \n\n
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So why are you being so mean about it? Hmmm?
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February 06, 2005 2:13 PM
am not being mean! *sticks out tongue* by Tally
Tally followed the girl's eyes to her dirty robes and to Tad. She shrugged, "They don't bother me any, just as long as they know that I'm not into such things." Tally chuckled at the face the girl made and the mention of some Princess.She listened carefully as she went on about someone named Ash. If she was the twin that Tally was thinking about, then she was sure Ash was the boy, but she couldn't be sure. She definitely wasn't like the other girls that Tally had met here at Salem. If anything, she was, in essence, a boy. The girl then spoke about corridors and being spit out. At this, Tally shrugged again.
"I don't know, nobody has ever tried it. I don't really know anyone from my house, except for Jake, and we both spend as little time there as we can." Tally said. It was true, she spent most of her time with Chrissy, or just walking aimlessly around the school.
"Who's Princess? Do you mean that PR girl?" Tally asked, remembering their first night here and Mia getting covered in paint which nearly started a whole prank war, "And who's Ash?" Tally asked and then as an aferthought, "I'm Tally, by the way." \n\n
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Sorrel
February 06, 2005 3:36 PM
*retaliates in kind* by Sorrel
"I've met him," grinned Sorrel, as the girl talked about Jake, "He's cool. Basically the corridor thing is what I said. They spit you back out if you go along the other one. If it's not in any other houses, I want to transfer though. That'd be so bloody unfair if it was just Pecari!"*And just like my current luck,* she thought, trying to remember if their head of house had said it was a school thing or a Pecari thing. She hadn't really been listening, to be honest.
"How come you don't spend much time there? You in the snooty Pureblood house or something?" she asked. She hadn't actually come across any blood snobs yet. There had been the sort of incident with Elizabeth, but she wasn't really a snob. Her parents were just trying to turn her into one.
"Sorrel," she returned, "That is, I am. The Princess chick's called Mia. She wears nail varnish, is always smiley or giggly and was really kissing up to Professor Painer. The Transfiguration dude," she added, realising she hadn't quite given his real name... "And Ash is my twin."
*The one I'm normally joined at the hip to...* \n\n
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*retaliates in kind*
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February 06, 2005 4:11 PM
*makes rude gesture* by Tally
Tally smiled. The girl knew Jake, that was good. Then she spoke again about the corridors being sexist and Tally was amused by the whole idea."I'm sure it's in all the houses, but it's probably meant to keep the older students separated." Tally didn't think she needed to explain why. "Is it just to keep the boys out of the girls dorms or does it go both ways?" She asked. Tally thought about the exact reason she didn't spend so much time in her own common room.
"I don't know anyone. None of the girls chat with me and the only decent conversation I had was with the ghost Lissy or Betty or whatever her name was-er-is?" Tally said with a shrug. If the other girls were around more to chat, Tally would have spent more time there, but they weren't so she didn't. "And no, it's not the nooty Pureblood house. Chrissy says that that's hers. She's a Crotalus. I guess most of the Purebloods ended up there, her included, but she's not snooty. Jenna Howards in that house too and she's a pureblood. She spent Christmas break with us and she's not so bad either." Tally shrugged, she had heard about some students being snooty purebloods, but she has yet to meet any.
"Mia? You think of her as a princess?" Tally thought that odd, she'd spent some time with the girl and they had gotten lost together within the school. "I didn't think her to be so bad, but, I wasn't really paying much attention. I met her during the feast and Kade pranked her with paint. It was actually rather funny..." Tally smiled at the memory of Mia being covered in paint. "But she had taken it fairly well. Maybe it's because you live with her that everything is so different." Tally suggested with a hopeful look. Mia was one of the few people Tally actually talked with
"Professor Painer...that's actually a good name for him. He yelled at me because I didn't know the vanishing spell. I'm eleven! I didn't learn it yet. Merlin, you'd think he'd have realized that, wouldn't you?" Tally huffed. She was still put-out at the fact that he was upset she didn't know everything yet about magic. "Anyway, I figured you were that set of twins, but I wasn't sure. It's nice to have names with the faces though."\n\n
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Sorrel
February 06, 2005 4:28 PM
*holds up three fingers* Read between the lines by Sorrel
"Are you kidding me? You think I'd be complaining if I could ditch the frilly girly girls and hide up in the boys' room?" she asked, "It goes both ways. Though if it didn't, I bet all the little fluttery girlies would be up there too, boyfriend hunting," she made a gagging noise. "Yeah, it probably is for that, but they should make an exception for siblings. It's hardly like I'm going to want to..." There were some levels of gross that even Sorrel couldn't joke about, "Not that I want to hang out with him, but it means I can't but slugs in his bed any more," she added, before the girl got the"Yep," said Sorrel, uncompromisingly. She was unable to believe that Tally, who swore like a sailor and scrabbled in the dirt, could stand the Princess of Pecari for more than five minutes. And vice versa! Still, she wasn't going to provoke. If Tally wanted to fence sit then whatever. It wasn't Tally's fault that Mia kissed up to everyone.
"He gave us - me and Ash - detention," said Sorrel, though she sounded anything but peturbed by it. She sounded rather proud. She leant back on the log slightly. "We had to sort out all his poxy books," she said, rolling her eyes. \n\n
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*holds up three fingers* Read between the lines
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Tally
February 06, 2005 9:25 PM
ooo, nice comeback *rolls eyes* by Tally
Tally smirked as Sorrel talked about the corridors that kept the different sexes apart. For the moment, Tally didn't find anything wrong with that, but her brother was 13 years older than her and, though they were close, she hadn't needed to be by his side constantly since she was 8 and the girls had pushed her into the mud for playing with the other boys. Still, Sorrel was rather upset by the fact that these barriers kept her away from her brother."Well, the girls might go looking for boyfriends, but I doubt any of the boys are looking for girlfriends for it own't do them a lot of good." Tally commented. Tally laughed as Sorrel told her about her and her brother's detention with their transfiguration professor.
"What a doof." Tally said through her laughter. "Honestly, the things they come up with..."\n\n
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ooo, nice comeback *rolls eyes*
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