An: I've got a soft spot for Spider8reath
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Professor Lalonde has more visitors.
Just as strange as the last.
This time she's talking to two ghosts a boy and a girl. Hermione recognized them from the professor's boggart.
They seem more solid than the one's around Hogwarts.
You could have almost mistaken them for the living but their eyes were a hollow, blank white, and they share the normal ghosts ethereal, not quite there presence.
It was disquieting to say the least.
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They're not truly in the room.
It was a curious marvel of magic, when she'd asked the professor about the strange glowing blue bubble that now filled her room she'd muttered with a sad put upon look, something about dream bubbles and Aradia-Jade space-time shenanigans.
Everyone else Hermione asked had been just as baffled as to what dream bubbles were as her, or who the two names she mentioned belonged to.
She has a niggling feeling they were perhaps part of those who had featured in the professor's boggart.
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The boy is named John and the girl is name Vriska.
They dress in strange clothes that resemble what the professor wore the night of Trelawney's sacking, when she first appeared out of the night mist.
John's clothes are blue and relatively normal looking in design with the exception of the long windsock styled hood.
With black hair and pale skin he has an overbite that does not detract from his appearance but is noticeable if one looks.
Like the others he has a symbol displayed across his chest, a stylized current of air.
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The girl's is almost identical to the one professor Lalonde sometimes wears, though it is in a different style and cut.
The sun like symbol that Hermione feels is important somehow, too is splayed proudly across her chest, though her outfit has the strange addition of large fairy like wings.
Perhaps most curiously is that she is most definitely not human.
She had two oddly tipped horns and grey skin.
Her lips like the professor's are black though hers appear natural, barely visible through the blue she paints them.
Her long hair too is black, and she has fangs which are visible when she opens her mouth.
The boy though is or at least was human, or at least whatever Rose is. She looked human, and she acted human, and all of her mannerisms seemed human, but if 'human' was a rung on the evolutionary ladder, she was one above that.
Vriska seems to share the same quality but with her obvious non-humanness it's slightly harder to tell.
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While Rose exudes an air of mystery, occult mysticism and knowledge terrible and forbidden, John feels mischievous almost playful, free and unrestrained in his exuberance.
If Rose is Light then John is the wind.
Vriska is harder to pin down. There is a distinctly spidery feel about her. Dangerous and unpredictable like lady luck, and also like luck she can be tempered by things other than random chance. In Vriska's case John seems to act as her counterbalance grounding her.
After all it never hurts to blow on the dice.
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Vriska is an unpredictable chance, the flipping of a coin, the rolling of dice.
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She and the boy are something called Matespirits.
Hermione thinks that it sounds like lovers but something... more. You can't quite describe it but she just knows.
They are very in love.
She can tell.
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An: The boggart will feature next chapter and will be set chronologically before this chapter. You can consider this the probable limit of my decidedly un-Hussy like talent for time shenanigans.
