A trip back

She sighed. Blood seemed to make her feel extremely stupid in the end. She nodded. Then continued to let her head bump against the wall of the carriage, listening and feeling the rhythm. Her eyes, however remained on Blood.

I grin at her. "So then why do you want to become an Unspeakable?"

She shrugs. "It just caught my eye. I find it to be very interesting even though there isn't any information on it." To tell the truth, what really caught her eye was because there wasn't much information. She looked down again, then back up.

I understood the attraction of the unknown, however I liked to know what I was getting myself into and not rush in, headfirst. "And this business, why even start a business if you don't know in what field it would operate? Would you like to, trade? Manufacture? Intel? Advertize? Or do you want to simply have a business for the sake of it?"

She shook her head. She wished shewould stop asking questions.

(sorry, fell asleep)

I click my tongue against the roof of my mouth, wonder what would happen if the phoenix asked her future plans she would never be able to enter her dorm. That thought makes me smile and that's when I remember something. "Oh crap! Cercei.. meh.. what ever she'll just fly to the Owlery" I slump back in my seat.

She yawns again, glances quickly out a window, then glance back in again. She had a question on the tip of her tongue but shrugged it off and looked at the floor.

"What?" I ask her unpacking another Licorice Wand and popping it into my mouth.

"What, what?" She asked. Her hands seemed to grip the bench. She yawned again and looked out the window.

I glance down at her hands and raise an eyebrow. "You were going to say something.. what were you going to say?"

"I wasn't going to say anything." Her hands gripped tighter to the bench and she keep her gaze at her shoes as I they were the most interesting thing in the
World.

Taken aback I snort. "Come on were friends here you can tell me" I give her a wide smile.

I can't help but smile back. "I wasn't going to say anything." She shrugs. Her hands relax a little and she let's a deep breath out.

"No really, you can tell me.. I thought we were friends.. "

She shakes her head. "No. I truly wasn't going to say anything." she tries to keep her voice down at a level without it sounding annoyed.

"Fine.. no.. it's okay. If you don't want to tell me I understand" My throat constricts around the last couple words and I look out the window avoiding her gaze.

She looks at Blood, then she looks out her own window. She went with the movements of the carriage. Then she turns to Blood again, pauses, and asks, "Do you see the things pulling the carriages too?" Right when she said it she regretted it. There was a reason she hadn't asked Blood in the first place and now she just went on and did it anyway. She sighed, waiting for a reply, my hands gripping the side of the bench.

My eyes snap to her. Quickly I plaster the brightest smile I could muster onto my face and laugh. "What are you talking about? It's magic it's a simple propulsion spell"

She nods. "Oh, right" She mumbles. Why had she asked in the first place? She knew this moment would come. She stared down at the floor, quietly thinking.

I look out of the window wondering who she had seen die. "You have any family?" I ask after a while.

"Um... Yeah. I have... A few left." she managed to get out. She rubs her eyes and then goes back to gripping the bench.

It would nearly always be family. "Oh, who?" I ask chewing on my Licorice Wand. "You have any siblings too?"

"Oh, who, what?" I asked a bit confused. Her eyes grew sad at the word siblings and she turned away, looking out the window. Her throat seemed to get tight. She gripped the bench even tighter.

"Your family who do you have left?" I ask looking her my head tilted to the side slightly.

"My mum. My dad. And my grand father." She says, her throat still tight. She didn't mention that her grandfather was almost gone too. She stared out the window,biting her lip.