Third Floor Common Room - Mid-Morning Tuesday

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He didn't have class for a while, since it was a Tuesday, but it had never been in his nature to sleep overly much; as such, he was in the common room. He'd originally thought of going out for a trip on the broom, but the foul weather had put that plan out of his mind quick enough. He'd seen the remainders of an old barn that'd been struck by lightning once; while he didn't know much about how it worked, he knew well enough that it wouldn't be wise to provide a closer target.

As such, he sat by the window with a book on crystology, since the television was horribly distracting (off or on). He wasn't taking notes just yet since he wanted to get a good idea of how the whole of the science worked before he started making assumptions on what might work for his invention, and it was all very interesting. So many choices he hadn't even known about, and the pictures showed so many beautiful things, some of which he remembered from the Magic Box. He'd have to pick one of those; you can't make something with parts you don't have, after all.

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"It's better than where I was," he said honestly. "And even with the disturbing incidents of magic aside" the word magic sounded as if he were speaking of a stubborn cat who won't use the litterbox "it's the best sort of chance for someone like me."

A pause.

"And you?"

[smartestone]

"I could do without the disturbing incidents," she said, not about to blame it on magic in case that made her feel even more wrong, "which need to happen less often. Overall it's a good place." She paused. "Overall."

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

"No place is perfect," he said in reply. "I'd be unnerved if it was more than 'overall'."

[smartestone]

"You have a point," Hermione said with a little smile. "Where are you from, Liir?"

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

"Oz," he said. "The same as Professor Ambrose, though he's from a great many years in my future. Some things haven't seemed to change, though."

He was in some of the clothes Glitch had given him and they looked like the average trousers and shirt and waistcoat and the rest that any half-way respectable Ozian would wear in the Emerald City.

[smartestone]

"I haven't met the professor yet," she said. She started working through her stockpile of geography knowledge, trying to figure out whether she knew where this place was. "I don't believe I've heard of Oz," she admitted.

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"It's not here," he said carefully. "Earth, I mean. It's a different place.

"We had someone from Earth once, but she went home. And now I'm here."

It was sort of funny.

[smartestone]

"Are you going to see her while you're here?" she wondered. "Are you able to?"

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

"I don't know," he admitted.

"I'd rather not, if it's all the same," he admitted right after that.

[smartestone]

"Oh," she said, wincing a little. "Sorry."

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

He shook it off.

"Your dog didn't bite me," he pointed out. "Or widdle on our feet or scare off the Lion so we had to go looking for him for hours.

No, it had nothing to do with killing his mother or leaving him when she'd said she'd return. All Toto's fault.

[smartestone]

She raised her eyebrows. "This is why I like cats," she said, trying for some levity.

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

He smiled.

"I like cats as well. Chad's kitten is very sweet, though he's the only one I've ever really met. And most dogs, I'd think; that one was just a horror. But Killjoy was a good dog. He was the Witch's dog but he was my friend until he died a few years back."

[smartestone]

"I'm sorry for that," she said sympathetically, and tilted her head a bit. "The Witch?"

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

He nodded.

"The Witch. Elphaba Thropp. 'Anything but Auntie'," he said with even a faint hint of a smile.