On the Edge (Lily)

[Tirona Lee]

Tirona sat on a rock just at the edge of the forest as the sun began to dip down over the horizon. He heard the cry of a lone thestral come from somewhere within the forest, but he ignored it for the most part. He was waiting for Lily, it'd been about three weeks since they'd begun her training for the Patronus Charm. Aquamentia,[/color] he thought, pointing his wand into a cup, which promptly filled with water from the tip. He glanced sideways toward the cottage of the half-giant Hagrid, some 50 meters away. They were far enough out of the way that they wouldn't be bothered with the training, and he could get her back into the castle easily enough.

Lit wasn't attending her session this time, although he had a couple of times. He thought the snake was amused by the girl's failed attempts to create a patronus, or her reactions to it more precisely. She was coming along about as he'd expected, and his thoughts were that she wasn't that far away from being able to create a large 'wall' of silver light. He found with the proper motivation, he could speed up the proccess. Normally it would've taken her months to do that much, on her own anyway, but since he knew how to create one already he could prepare her for it better.

Its animal form wouldn't be to far off if she could create the wall. Although, it'd still probably take a bit more practice anyway. He tapped his wand across the rock, small sparks shooting from the end with each tap. He'd only had a couple of classes that day, so he'd been there for quite a while... since lunch actually. On Fridays he only had a couple of classes, all of which were in the morning. On the grass in front of the rock, he'd dropped his sketchbook, not noticing that it'd opened up to a sketch he'd done of Lily with her wand pointed up, with silver whisps coming out the end.

He'd inked the picture, but he'd only coloured wisps to show what exactly it was that it'd been. He cracked his arm. His thoughts had been free most of the day, he'd just brought the sketchbook incase he got bored. For most of the day he'd just been letting his minds domino, drifting from one topic to the next. When he was looking to kill a lot of time he found it very effective. Although, he still needed to be shaken out of it at some point by someone or other.

((Sorry about the shortness of the post, I squeezed everything out of my muse I could....))

[Sirius Black]

Lily ran down the hill, her hair a billowing red flag behind her. She was so late, but she had lost complete track of time... Lily blushed. Nick had the ability to do that to her, to distract her to the point where she forgot all else. It was something she would have to learn to get around, and probably soon, if she hadn't made Tirona angry with her tardiness.

No, there he was. She would have let out a sigh of relief if she wasn't panting so hard. "Sorry... I'm... late..." She bent double clutching her side as she tried to catch her breath. She really did want to learn this spell, even if it seemed she found other things more important...

[Tirona Lee]

Tirona was still out of it when Lily came up, panting and heaving from the run from the castle. His thoughts had started about something from a Muggle movie his father had taken him to see the previous summer, and now he was thinking about the existance of believed imaginary magical creatures. How exactly he domino'd there it would be anyone's guess... it could be a single word or a phrase in the previous thought that brought it up. His longest 'domino session' had been 3 days straight. It'd started with thinking of literal dominos, and ended with the chemical composition of different elements.

He was brought out of his thoughts by Lily's words, shaking his head lightly and looking over at her. "Late?" he asked, tapping his wand on the rock, the image of a clock appearing on its surface and showing the time. "Not a problem Lily," he said, not bothering to rise. Although, his legs were asleep anyway so it probably wouldn't help. "I think you're just about ready for a wall of silver now. Either this practice or our next one. The animal will be a bit more," he said.

He glanced around for a moment, ensuring they were alone. He'd already asked Lily not to tell anyone that he was doing this, as he already tutored enough people that they didn't need to know that he was teaching her to perform as complicated magic as this. "Have you been practicing your memory?" he asked, the thought sounding like a teacher asking if their student had done their homework. Technically he was her teacher, literally the following year if he had his way. He glanced downward, spotting the sketchbook with the picture of Lily, not really registering what it was for a minute. When he did, he flipped it over and placed it into his pocket at a shrunken size. He didn't like people looking at his art very much.