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"Norwegian ridgeback. . . " Shion mutter quietly, tiredly, before she was able to walk into the Slytherin common room. As she looked around she felt a warm, homey feeling wash over her, seeping deep into her bones.

"You welcome me back like an old friend," Shion said, sitting in one of the high-backed wooden chairs before the fire. "But only when you are so empty as this. Other wise. . . you may as well be the death of me. . . so full of people." she snorted as she spoke to herself and to the low ceiling. Wouldn't her fellow Slytherins just have a blast making fun of her. Shion could picture it now.

"Oy, Shion, gone crazy now, have you?" one of them would ask. . . and Shion would simply smile and say; "Crazy as a hatter. . ." and walk up to the sixth year girl's dormitory to draw in peace.

Ha! Peace. What a silly idea.

Cal stared at the floor sheepishly in response. "I've written about half a scroll worth... but I need another half at least, and I blanked out when the part about humans transfiguring into animals was being taught." She didn't mention the fact that she had fallen asleep with her eyes open in class...

She cleared her throat and looked back up, her words catching lightly in her throat as she noticed something a bit off. Blayre's once dull brown eyes were now shining. She tilted her head and scrunched her face up, walking a bit closer and peering into her eyes. "Something up Blayre?"

And just like that, it was gone. This girl was making her curious, but she decided to wave it off, homework was due soon.

She walked over to her bag, which she had thrown into an armchair and rustled about inside it til she picked out a rolled up scroll with a folded edge, it was how she marked the scrolls she hadn't completed and it was currently the only one needing to be done. She was usually pretty good with getting her homework done early, but it wasn't so easy when she fell asleep in class.

She walked back over to Blayre and handed the scroll over, it was very thorough, covering the slightest detail of what she had been awake for, but it only went so far when the portion with the most page-filling information was the part she slept through. She scratched her head lightly in embarrasment, for some odd reason she wanted this girl to think of her as more then some slacker who was too stupid to do things on her own, she hoped the work she did showed that.

Blushing slightly at the praise, she walked over to the table and leaned on it with her elbows instead of sitting. She tilted her head and thought for a moment. "Animals more often then not, right? Like oxen to plow a field, or..." She blanked out and gave Blayre an apologetic look. "What other kinds of things?"

She had begun writing as soon as Blayre handed the paper back, quickly getting to the part about transmogrified limbs when she stopped at the words concerning half-breeds with a shocked expression.

"Ew! But... that doesn't make any sense, I mean... even if the one person was..." She stopped and blushed lightly, clearing her throat before continuing. "An animal... since different species can't concieve from each other unless closely related, there could be no offspring, the one who was originally human would have to turn back, making the process essentially fruitless... other then for a human that is... right?"

"Uh..." She blushed heavily at the insinuation. Blayre sure was full of suprises. She just met the girl, but that sounded like something she herself would say after getting to be good friends. Jokingly of course.

She looked up when Blayre started moving away, gasping in alarm as she saw her trip over the table, rushing over and leaning over her, looking into her eyes with a concerned expression as she placed her hand behind her head. She felt around carefully for any lumps while making sure Blayre could focus, the blush from earlier still slightly visible.