Delicate Nature

[Madeleine Durand]

Madeleine walked silently along her the tiny path she had found leading into the forbidden forest. The sun shone brightly through the vivid green leafs that hung along the branches that surrounded her. She smiled, looking up at the sky, allowing the sun to warm her features. Her eyes closed and sighed with content. Peaceful and quite.

She heard a tiny rustle to the left of her and quickly drew her wand out ready to attack. She waited for the creature to make its appearance. Then tiny rabbit jumped out. Its nose twitch and it continued to hop away through the bushes on the other side. She laughed lightly.

She continued her stroll through the woods every once in a while stopping to inspect something she had come across. Finally she made it to a beautiful clearing. A large grey boulder with a lime green moss decorating along the edges stood near the small creek trickled water down a tiny trail. She took a seat against the boulder and plucked a daisy from the little patch that lay close by. She twirled it in her fingers delicately and sighed.

[Hope Firestone]

Hope wasn't scared of the forrest, sure there were some terrible creatures there that could tear you apart but that was only at night and besides there were also creatures that she found facinating roaming through the forrest also. She'd gone deaper than this into the forrest before and explored its depths were it was darker and the trees were thick, and the atmosphere was more exciting, but today all she wanted was to sit in her favourite place and read her care of magical creatures book.
Suddenly she herd a sound and jumped almost dropping her book. someone was coming, she hid behind the boulder, scared that she would get into trouble for being here. It was a Hufflepuff girl that seamed far to engrossed with her surroundings to notice Hope. The sat right in front of Hopes hiding place!
She looked over the boulder to see the girl better and- "Thud", Her care of magical creatures book fell out of her hand and onto the lush green grass right next to the girl!

[Madeleine Durand]

Madeleine immediately jumped from her original position tearing her out from underneath her robes. She was full of jitters now from the sudden thud. She pointed it at the creature but once realizing it was only a book she aloud her arm to drop to her side.

“How did a book just fall out of no where. It was very strange indeed.”, she quietly thought to herself. “Unless someone was out there watching her.”

She brought her wand back up into a defensive stance. She licked her lips nervously and feel her palms become sweaty. Who could it be? Some nasty Slytherin ready to attack her. Or some other person just playing a terrible joke. Neither one of her ideas sounded appealing. She knew there was only one was to find out.

“Hello. Is any one out there?”, Madeleine asked timidly.

[Hope Firestone]

"Helo is anyone out there?" The girl said.
Dam! Hope thought, now she'll think I'm spying on her! Well, she had to say something, so she stood up and walked around the boulder to the girl who was holding her wand out in front of her.
"I'm so sorry." she said pollitly, "I hid when I saw you coming... I didn't want to get into trouble or anything..." Her voice trailed off, it sounded so stupid now that she thought about it, hiding from someone just in case she got into trouble. Her face went red and she looked at the floor, "I didnt mean to scare you," she mumbled.