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Riley walks up to the Owlery to send a most precious birthday letter to her dear mother. As she hands the pink envelope to a rather cranky looking owl, a boy walks in. He's rather handsome, his hair put perfectly in place, and a sweet smile on his face. Just as Riley looks away from him, the cranky owl nips at her finger in aggravation. "Ouch!" Riley squeaks as the owl flies from the owlery. The handsome boy comes running to her side. "Are you okay?" He asks in distress. Riley replies, "I'm fine, but may I ask, what is your name?"

Walking into the Owlry, Lin took out something from her pocket. She walked over to a silver cage, decorated with odd, asian swirls and carvings. Inside was Yue- a white owl. Yue snapped at the cage bars, and Lin slipped in a piece of Chinese Green Onion Pancake in. The owl gulped it in a heartbeat, and Lin grinned. "You're going to get fat, you know that. Then I'll have a fat owl too heavy to carry messages, and with a bad attitude," she teased. Once Yue recieved his fair share of food, Lin left for the Dormitory.

Adele knew she looked ridiculous, but fortunately it was early enough in the morning that the chances of somebody stumbling upon her were extremely low, "Santos! I know you can bloody well hear me!"

Santos had been given to her younger sister as a birthday present the previous year. The great grey owl was a magnificent creature, but had the worst attitude of any delivery owl Adele had ever encountered, "Listen you great lout! Madra actually gave me permission to use you this time."

Santos continued snoozing obliviously on his perch, presenting Adele with a dilemma. She had promised her grandparents a letter detailing her intentions for break. She had forgotten to mail said letter in a timely fashion, and received a rather nasty howler. Leave it to the Walgraves to blow the entire situation out of proportion. None the less, she needed to get the this letter to her grandparents as soon as possible. Unfortunately, this was easier said than done. Her grandparents's estate, in addition to being in the middle of nowhere, was protected by all sorts of elaborate enchantments (many of which, Adele was sure were illegal). In Adele's past experiences, every single time she tried to use a school owl to send a letter to her grandparents the poor creature would somehow get blown off course.

Desperate times call for desperate measures. She pulled her wand out of her pocket, "Accio Santos!"

Just as the words escaped from her mouth, she heard the sounds of footsteps behind her. Unfortunately, before she could offer an explanation, in a flurry of feathers and frantic hooting her Santos began whizzing over to her. Adele was about to learn the hard way that accio was not intended to be utilized on sleepy owls.

Seamus rushed up the staircase with Makala. He felt bad about staying away for so long, and having to drop Fig off so suddenly. He released his arm from the younger girl and moved towards the perches. His eyes scanned the rows of owls, looking for his own. Once again he reminded himself to write a letter to Jana.

Still searching the rows, he spoke to Makala, "Sorry. Didn't mean to rush." Fig wasn't there. Seamus scuffed his feet. He hoped he was off hunting, and wasn't holding a grudge. Seamus still didn't know enough about the owl to know how he would react to the argument. If you can argue with an owl. He turned and eyes Makala's owl. "She's a beauty, yeah? Have you been together long?"

Seamus reached up and gave the owl a small pat. "There's a love." He cooed to her. She was a right fine owl, and nearly as white as Figaro was dark. He reached into his pocket and pulled out a small treat for her to feed on, saving the rest for Fig's return. He addressed Makala next, "Fig's out I suppose, bringing me letters from my various and many admirers. Might be that the load was too much for him, and he had to stop and rest."

Seamus mock pouted at the girl, and gave the owl another pat as she finished the treat. "Cocky implies that I cannot back it up." He stuck his tongue out at the girl, "And I can. I just don't know enough people here yet for it to be glaringly obvious." Giving the owl a final stroke, he gently disengaged her from his shoulder and handed her back to Makala.