Better Out In The Open(Front of Hufflepuff stairs)

[seanna]

January 14th, 1am
(sitting in front of the stairs leading down to Hufflepuff and the kitchens)

So it had been almost seven hours since Robert Shaw and his faceless people had arrived and announced their arrival in the school. Almost seven hours of trying to keep her younger years safe and calm which was a big thing in itself when she was trying to make own self feel safe and calm as well. Seanna didn't think she had achieved either.

And being up on the opposite end of the table to where Krissy was and the rest of the older Huffles, hadn't exactly helped matters. More than once, she had felt vulnerable sitting there watching Sarsha and Lianna with the Deva member standing there watching them in front of the table. The sixth year girl knew she couldn't protect herself if she didn't have a wand, so how would she'd been able to protect her younger years if something were to happen to them? That thought had sent her panicky mode into overdrive panicky mode.

The blond head girl needed to escape from underneath the table and the great hall, and as soon as she saw that her younger years would be okay for the mean time, she escaped to the more airy Entrance hall. Right now, Seanna was sitting on the floor, in front of the stairs that led down to Hufflepuff, just watching the faceless Deva person guarding it. No, she wasn't going to do anything, she knew she couldn't do anything.

But watching the Deva member guarding the Hufflepuff stairs made her feel a little less panicky and made her feel like she was actually doing something. Watching the mannerisms of the Deva member could actually come in handy down the road... if she remembered them for later on.

(open)

[Jade Estaci]

Jade wandered into the entrance hall, yawning from the nap she had been taking on the floor. She spotted a girl who looked about her age, and pretty alone. "Boo!" She yelled, sneaking up behind the girl. Hopefully the girl wouldn't be too scared or annoyed with her, but Jade just wanted to see how freaked out others were. Yes, she was scared, but it wasn't like she was going to admit it!

[seanna]

A twitch of the shoulder, a small movement of her arm was all that Seanna gave this girl who had sneaked up on her and yelled BOO at her. In her mind, her thoughts had gotten scattered by the sudden disruption and she lost her concentration on the faceless person in front of her that was guarding the steps to the Huffle common room.

All she wanted, was to learn the mannerisms of this certain faceless person and even she couldn't do that. All she could do was just watch them stand there guarding it, taking in the way the faceless person stood and what kind of things they did. Everyone had a button to push and Seanna wanted to figure out exactly what button she could push of that particular faceless person guarding the stairs.

It was useless, utterly useless. Almost hopeless. Seanna couldn't tell and with the faceless person's face being well, faceless, she couldn't tell any certain mannerisms. The panicky mood she had been in before was still there, but now she was starting to feel frustrated.

Turning somewhat panicky, but more frustrated brown eyes towards the girl Seanna was sure was in her class, she tried to smile, but it just didn't come. The smile turned into more of a frown. The name of the girl near Seanna was lost in her panicky, frustrated brain and the frown continued on her face... all Seanna wanted was to get back to her watching.

"Shh... watching" Seanna informed the girl, tilting her blond head towards the stairs and the direction of the faceless person.

[Jade Estaci]

Jade raised an eyebrow. "And what will watching do for you? He, or she, I guess, isn't gonna be intimidated by you staring at him...her...it. You won't learn anything by it," Cocking her head, she examined the faceless being. "I wonder if it's a girl or guy?" She was thinking maybe flirting would get some answers? And flirting would probably tell if it was a girl o guy, depending on the answer.

[alfonztytusjedynak]

Time to walk, or do something to take the events of the evening off of his mind. His 'shift' wasn't over until Shaw said he could rest and as of that moment, Alfonz wouldn't even push his luck to ask. His eyes were heavy, but he was determined to stay away from Celina and Brady. Celina knew enough now to have her soul twisting and turning for a while and Brady wasn't someone Alfonz was even in the mood to deal with. Especially, since it already seemed that Schmidt was about to claim that prize.

Eh, what did it matter? If Brady was out of the picture, no matter who it was who took him out, Celina would be that much safer and Alfonz's identity would be that much safer. It would only be a matter of time before Brady realized, whether from Alfonz's voice or whatever, that Alfonz was there. Alfonz wasn't unintelligent, and he knew that Brady probably looked up all the information there was on the quidditch player after his fire. It wasn't as if Alfonz had meant for the arse to get fired, let alone hired at the very school his sister went to. Alfonz wanted him as far away from his younger sister as humanly possible. Not employed at the damn school she attended.

Alfonz walked up to the stairs that lead down. Where they lead, Alfonz didn't know but a Deva was stationed there so it must have been somewhere special. Alfonz walked up to the man and gestured with his head for the man to move along. As grateful as a faceless man could be, the Deva patted Alfonz's shoulder and moved along. Alfonz on the other hand, leaned against the railing, watching that no one would pass him by. It was better than doing nothing, and maybe it would keep his mind off of things.

[seanna]

It was Seanna's turn to raise her eyebrow at the girl whose name still escaped her more frustrated brain. "No... intimidation is not what I want. I want to learn" Seanna stated, still quietly thinking to herself that the situation was slightly hopeless from watching when you had only from the head down to learn from. It was even more hopeless by the fact that she hadn't had much of a chance to watch. Seanna guessed she had only had about twenty minutes of watching that faceless person before her mind wandered over to the girl.

Distraction was clearly this Huffle's downfall. "I have to disagree with you, there. You can learn an awful lot just by watching" Seanna said, turning her frustrated brown eyes back to the stairway that led down to Huffle just in time to see a change of members. Seanna watched as the other faceless person walked away and just from 'it's' walk, she could tell more or less it was a man. For starters, the legs were more muscular and chunkier.

"I'm guessing it was a man... but I don't know now. They've changed" Seanna said, squinting through the darkness. The girl should of watched where that other faceless person had gone too, but this new faceless person was a bit more intriguing to her than the old one. The sixth year had a new person to analyze.

The situation was still hopeless, however. All the sixth year could do was guess, and that's about it. The panicky mood she was in before had gone and the frustrated mood had finally won over. "We should go and say hello" The last bit even she was surprised it had came out of her mouth. But the girl had came to a new realization. These people had came to her school, but they must have came to the school for a reason. Nobody would just take over Hogwarts just because and the Huffle sixth year wanted to know what that reason was.

[cairistiona]

"Oi, who're we going to say 'ello to?" came another voice from the semi-darkness. The Great Hall was too crowded for the likes of Cairistiona, so she chose to venture out, claiming to make a run to the restroom if she was asked. This wasn't something she expected, actually, she was sure no one had expected it. How could anyone expect something of the sort? Cairi was just thankful her dad was muggle and wouldn't here about this, at least, not until it was over hopefully. Even then, her Great-Grandmother Imbaguay would be the one left to deal with Cairi's dad, to make sure he didn't pull her from the school.

The boredom she'd fallen victim to was almost unheard of. With everyone finding someone to be close to, friends or otherwise, she was feeling left out, not knowing anyone and being new and all. It was something she wasn't happy about, not having someone to at least talk to. While she could've joined in on any group, and probably wouldn't have been shrugged out, it just didn't feel right. It was a time of crisis, and people were supposed to be with their friends, not some girl they didn't know.

So, it was a time she would have to deal with it all on her own, which didn't sound right, but she'd deal.

However, on her way to the restroom, she saw a couple of people and she was distracted. They weren't huddled together, so she thought that perhaps they'd let her in, at least it wouldn't be like she was intruding, not if they weren't crying or anything like that.

Instead of continuing for the restrooms, she was side-tracked and went over to the two first, wondering what in the world they were talking about, going to greet someone.

[Jade Estaci]

"I'm going to go flirt with the guard so I can find out if it's a guy or girl," Jade explained, smiling mischeviously. Jerking her thumb over towards Seanna, she continued, "She's coming with me to say hi to he-she-it. Wanna come?" Jade was bored. There was no one for her to turn to, as she didn't really have many friends at this school and she didn't want to sleep anymore. She was inventing something to do and hopefully getting another couple people to accompany her. She's already pretty much forced to older girl to come by telling the younger one she would.

[seanna]

"No, you're coming with me" Seanna said, standing up and giving the slytherin girl a smirk. After all, Seanna did ask her to come with her first and not the other way around. Even if the other girl didn't have come with her, Seanna would've gone over by herself, anyhow. But now with the younger Huffle thrown into the mix, Seanna was in a dilemma.

Looking at her, the new girl looked a bit younger, maybe around thirteen or fourteen and that made her one of the younger year Huffles she had to protect... or did she? There was still no harm going over to say hello and if none of them did nothing silly, then there wouldn't be a need to protect, would there? But in saying that, the sixth year would protect the younger year if anything did happen.

"Yeah, we were just going over to say hello. I'm sure once we here it's voice we can determine if it's a woman or man" Seanna said, throwing another smirk in the slytherin's direction. Maybe it was the time of the morning or the frustration she was feeling, but Seanna was thinking that flirting with older men and men that were dangerous was slightly silly too... then again, maybe it was the time of the morning as well... maybe if the slytherin girl did do some flirting with the it person, they could find out more information and information is what Seanna wanted.

"But stay close to me, kay?" Seanna said, the feeling of protectiveness washing over again. The sixth year felt it would be best if the other Huffle stayed close to her.

[Jade Estaci]

Jade was not used to being told what to or what not to do and she did not like it. "You think I can't handle him? I was arrested my some Ministry douf a couple summers ago and I've gone out with older muggles before. Like way older muggles. Flirting telld you a lot about a person, ok? Just because you're not a master flirter doesn't mean you need to be jealous of my superior flirting skills," Jade babbled proudly. True, wizards had been a bit harder to charm than muggles, but that could have been that she was more mysterious to the muggles.

[seanna]

Another raised eyebrow went up in the direction of the slytherin girl. "I'm not jealous of you and I never said you couldn't handle it and I have to agree, flirting does tell a lot about a person... that's why I want you to come with me, between me saying hello and you flirting we could find out a lot of information from it" Seanna ended this part in a whisper, not wanting the it person to hear, but wanting the slytherin girl to hear her and the other girl as well.

'And I don't want to get into a conversation of who flirts best and who's better than who, I only said for the new girl to stay close to me because she's one of my Huffles, that's all. We would be wasting valuable time if we started that conversation when we could be over there all ready finding out some things" Seanna let out a frustrated sigh. Who really cared what option they took? Just as long as they found out something and the sixth year could be happy.

"Just out of curiosity, what were you arrested for?" Seanna asked, not hearing about any Hogwarts student being arrested. This was the first time she had heard that news.

[Jade Estaci]

Jade shrugged, "Apparently I was sneaking up on an Auror and then I was being disrespectful toward him. And for some reason he thought I murdered that teacher because he's psycho. And then when he brought me in, I tried to run away because I was bored. I was totally innocent, though. I think he might have lost his job because of me," she explained. She paused, looking at the guard. "So, like, are we gonna go now?"

[seanna]

Seanna made a face at the Slytherin girl. Not knowing much about the ministry but slowly figuring out that most of the ministry personnel were pretty stupid... considering the fact that they had took DADA away from the school curriculum and locked Raynor away in Azkaban that story sounded true to Seanna, especially the part about the auror bringing the Slytherin in for being disrespectful and for possibly murdering a teacher... but what teacher? Seanna was just about to ask that when the other girl said that they should go.

"Yup, we should go, before they change guards again" Seanna nodded in agreement with the girl. Pushing herself up from the entrance hall's floors, she rubbed her arms a bit out of nervous habit before turning her brown eyes towards the other Huffle that was there. "Before we go though, I'm Seanna and this is... " Seanna trailed off, turning her blond head towards the Slytherin girl again, the face was familiar, but the name was still a bit confusing to her. "Jade?" Seanna asked, confusion evident on her face. Seanna felt it was better for both her and the other girl to at least know their names before they went over to the guard.

[Jade Estaci]

Nodding, Jade turned with disinterest to the younger girl. The sooner they got this names thing settled the sooner she could flirt and Jade was so bored she'd probably flirt with the ugliest person alive. Then again, ugly people were usually slightly afraid of young beautiful girls like her. They couldn't figure out why she was talking to them instead of some hott surferdude.

[cairistiona]

"Uh...sure," Cairi said. Why the girl would want to flirt with something without a face was beyond her, but it wasn't like she had anything else to do on her list of things to do for the day. Plus, it meant she might get the chance to know some people.

When the other girl spoke up about the other actually being in her service, Cairi hid a smile, and hid it well. Whether the one was in the service of the other or not, it didn't matter to her. Why it mattered whether the person was male or female was beyond Cairi as well, but she'd play along.

Cocking an eyebrow above her dark brown eye, she looked at the older girl. For whatever reason she was being protective and while it was nice, Cairi didn't know what to make of it. She wasn't a little kid, and it wasn't like she was going to flirt with anyone. All she was doing was going with the flow of things for the time being.

Before she answered though, the other girl jumped in with something about being arrested and suddenly the new Hufflepuff didn't know if she should even be near the girl. But, even she would admit, it was interesting. Cairi didn't know what kind of information the girls were looking for, but all they had to do was watch, didn't they? Just looking at the height of the person, it was easy to tell it was most likely a he, though it could've been a she. And the girl felt a surge of pride go through her when the one girl called her one of her Huffle's.

And when the girl asked about the other, Cairi listened intently, for she was interested to know as well, but hardly any information was given. Though, with her imaginative mind she pieced together quite a funny tale, and almost laughed aloud from it, but regained composure enough to take in introductions.

"I's nice t' meet you," she told both, allowing a smile to slip through. "My name's Cairi."