Limb with a View (OPEN)

[Lucretia 'Storm' Seyrrou]

he reminded her of Pandora, she had been drawing for as long as she could remember. She would find herself sitting across her friend watching as her hands moved flawlessly across the page. At first Lucretia complained about not being able to see much, but remembered that a few lines turned into something that represented who Pandora was.

"Pandora, she's like that. Despite her being a little explosive when it comes to her personality, she has this odd calm when shes drawing. Almost like nothing can get to her." she looked out over the lake, she was sure it was more than that, but she couldn't describe it. Lucretia knew how it felt to write and she was sure it was probably the same for a painter.

"Is it like that for you?" she asked him turning her gaze from the lake to look at him.

[Dare Blackwood-Hardt]

"Hm." Dare had to think about that one for a minute. "It depends," he said at last. "Sometimes it's like that, but sometimes it's like, everything focuses, and I'm hardly even there anymore, just watching myself as the picture develops." It was satisfying, definitely. Calm, not so much. But then, everyone's style was different. "For me it's more of a release than a relaxation," he said, summing it up the best he could. Dare looked back from the lake to Lucretia. "So who's Pandora? Friend or family?" he asked.

[Lucretia 'Storm' Seyrrou]

Her lips quirked up in a small grin. Memories of childhood sparked up in her memory making her smirk to herself.

"She's a family friend... my rival and my dearest friend." her smirk turned into a grin, the two were competitive, always wanting to be at each others throats. They were like sisters in a way, they cared for each other dearly and yet they never admit defeat when it came to best the other person in a bet or game.

"I guarantee you'll meet her soon, it's hard not to, she's Satan in human form." she snickered at the thought. Pandora would take that more as a compliment than something derogatory.

[Dare Blackwood-Hardt]

"Sounds charming," Dare said dryly. Not to knock Lucretia's friend, but the description of her certainly put a visual in his mind, and the idea of a personality to go with it. Not that he'd assume she was all bad, but when your best friend called you Satan, that said something about you.

"I really haven't met many people," Dare said. "I think Hogwart's even worse for that than my last school. Of course, everyone already knew me there, it's hard not to when you're sorted together, but after a few years it's like everyone goes their own ways, you know?"

[Lucretia 'Storm' Seyrrou]

His tone made her shake her head and laugh, had he taken her seriously?

"She's not bad at all, just gets bored easily. Hard not to in Hogwarts." not recently though, students started to 'reappear' now.

"Hogwarts used to be dead a few months ago, but there have been a few things happening. Watch out what you do though, some daily prophet editor has her eyes all over this place, one wrong move and she'll have a whole section written just for you." she scowled having already have her name three times in the prophet.

"Mothers not happy about that." she said under her breath, she wasn't sure if he heard her, but it was pretty loud.

[Dare Blackwood-Hardt]

"I could care less about the Daily Prophet. They can say whatever the hell they want," Dare said with a shrug. "Why, what'd they write about you?" He'd have thought she was talking to herself, but the words were so audible that she'd meant him to hear her, if subconsciously.

[Lucretia 'Storm' Seyrrou]

She just shrugged scrunching up her face in distaste. She could just play it off casually that usually tended to work.

"Nothing much really, just a few relationships, girls quarreling, nothing huge." she plucked up a grass blade, playing with it in between her fingers.

"You shouldn't care, but sometimes the looks people give you can get annoying after a while. But your right, it shouldn't bother someone." her face relaxed, the only reason she cared was because if her father ever heard he'd probably attack her again as soon as she got home. The chances of him finding out were much higher now that her mother was around.

"What classes do you take in Hogwarts, maybe I shoudl give you a few tips on how to stay on the good side of a professor." she joked lightly. She tucked part of her hair behind her ear as she lightly twirled the blade between her fingers watching as it 'danced'.

[Dare Blackwood-Hardt]

Dare thought about that for a minute. "I'm signed up for Care of Magical Creatures, Divination, and Muggle Studies," he answered. "Not much going on in any of those, so I'm not worried about it." He'd been looking forward to Divination, but he couldn't make the professor hold class. Dare watched Lucretia, watched the rise and fall of her hand, then the motion of the grass between her fingers. It was almost hypnotizing, in its way.

[Lucretia 'Storm' Seyrrou]

She didn't take any of those classes, as she raised the blade then let go watching it fall to the ground. There was a small smile on her face, while her eyes trailed over the even green grass.

"Too bad, cant help you there. I don't take any of those classes." main reason being that if she did her mother would most likely have her killed on the spot, or less dramatically disowned. She didn't mind muggles anymore. Before it was drilled in her head that they tainted the world, but slowly she noticed that they were not at fault.

"I always thought Divination was fake, I mean, can anyone really see there future. Its never set in stone?" confusion was mixed on her face, she never believed that someone could tell you about yourself, no one completely knew themselves, how could someone else be able to know you well.

Lucretia's eyes turned a deep cloudy grey, she was falling into her mind again, something she was doing more often than before. Her fingers were lightly trailing over the grass.

[Dare Blackwood-Hardt]

Dare watched Lucretia, watched whatever darkness was sweeping through her, but gave no sign that he had noticed. Rather, he kept up the conversation, letting it go where it would, offering her the distraction. "The way I see it, Divination is about either paying attention to the signs everyone else ignores, or opening your mind to intuition and lucky guesses." He gave a light shrug of his shoulders. "It's fun, even if it's not really reliable." And still, he always seemed to do pretty well.

[Lucretia 'Storm' Seyrrou]

She was pulled out of her thoughts, it was funny how people could take life so lightly, almost easily, and she always dug deeper into everything.

"I guess you can take a few things just for fun." not her, her mother never mixed education and fun together. If her mother had it her way, the word fun wouldn't even be part of her vocabulary.

"Your subjects seem so light, not including Care of Magical creatures. Your parents don't mind them much?" she asked him, her parents literally forced those subjects on her, well her mother did. Her father was too busy with 'business' - translation- black magic.

[Dare Blackwood-Hardt]

Dare shook his head. "Dad doesn't mind at all. He's the rebel of an old Pureblood family. Mom was the free spirit type, and he kind of just...picked it up. So whatever me and Silver want to do is fine with him. Just as long as we're happy, he's cool." He knew how lucky he was for that, too. The world always seemed like it was in a big damn hurry, but there was so much to see that just got missed in the rush.

"What about you, what are you taking? Full load of Charms and Potions and stuff?" He had more than his fair share of that intuition he'd mentioned, and Lucretia seemed like another one of those people who was pushed to excel all the time.

[Lucretia 'Storm' Seyrrou]

She felt a little bit envious of that. He was very lucky, she wondered what type of life it was. To have no bounds, no restrictions.

"The 'main' subjects as my mom calls them. In fact, she's much closer than I like, Head of Slytherin house, charms professor. I'd have preferred father, at least I can play with his mind." her father was more like a witless tyrant, but sometimes she wondered if he pretended to be stupid there were things he said that startled her sometimes.

"Forget about school, summer is almost here we should be getting ready to have fun!" she said laughing a bit, she didn't want the weight of classes to burden there conversation right now.

[Dare Blackwood-Hardt]

Dare's lips curved into a crooked smile as he watched her, the sound of her laughter somehow surprising. "So you're one of those dangerous Slytherin girls I've been warned about," he teased, mossy green eyes shining with amusement. "I'm in Gryffindor, so I guess that means we're supposed to be in each other's faces, but dare to rebel, eh?" They were getting along pretty well, as far as he was concerned. Of course, he hadn't exactly believed all that stuff about the Houses anyway.

[Lucretia 'Storm' Seyrrou]

A short laugh escaped her lips, she shrugged getting up. She was feeling hot and though maybe it would be best to go swim.

"Oh yes, I'm a bad girl at heart! Without me, there wouldn't be 'Slytherin'. Then again... I like to lead life on the wrong side of the line. Who cares about the whole Slytherin-Gryffindor feud, life's to short to care about all that crap" she winked a small grin on her lips.

"Come on, get up! Lets go swimming! It's way to hot to just sit around." she wasn't sure where the surge of energy came from, but she might as well use it all up before it continues to build up.

Lucretia didn't even wait for an answer, she took off her light black sweater, the blood red tank top underneath stark against her pale skin. She kicked her shoes off, putting them behind the tree and dashed for the lake. She didn't even care if he was following or not, she needed to get rid of the excess energy burning inside her.