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Rather Grimm
Ever since school had started again, she'd just been going through the motions.
Homework. Sleep. Wake up. Eat breakfast. Go to school. Return home. Continue magic research. Then homework and sleep.
Rinse and repeat.
The only bright part of her day was magic. The rest of the time, Alex felt as if she was going to die from boredom.
.oOo.
She was milling about with her class at a lookout point along the Cliffs of Moher, twenty minutes south from the school. They were supposed to be conducting science-related experiments on weather and erosion — maybe. Honestly, she hadn't been really listening.
What figuratively had woken her up, though, was the spectral black dog.
It stayed at a distance — never coming close enough to be considered dangerous, but somehow managing to maintain a threatening presence. The dog stalked along the edge of the cliffs, observing the students and chaperones. It watched her most of all; its dark red eyes glowing.
No one else could see it; that much was obvious from their lack of concern.
Alex was on edge the entire day, science projects the last thing on her mind, when the tension finally broke in the late afternoon. They were just about to leave, when two of her classmates were goofing off too close to the ledge. Thankfully, she had been standing close by, mostly because the dog had been lurking near them. She pulled them back — just as a bit of the rocks gave way and fell into the sea, over a hundred meters below.
The phantom dog helped her shepherd the two boys even further away from the cliff. It gave her a sad look that said, 'Why are they so careless?'
Alex looked back at the dog with gratitude, and watched as it literally melted into the shadows.
Prompt (Original Character Boot Camp — Harry Potter Fanfiction Challenges): motion [word count: 300]