Reborn feels quite satisfied, all things considered. It's pissing the others off who keep giving him annoyed-to-angry looks but he doesn't care. He's too pressed against the wall for comfort, his cross-legged only giving him back so much space. The wind brushes over him from above, and his hand is secure around his fedora lest it flies away and Leon with it.

He wasn't too happy to see his chosen compartment taken over by a group of girls, his suitcase disregarded where it laid underneath the seat. He took it back with only a smile nonetheless, and fell back in steps with the others, who had fell back in steps with Viper, who did look like they knew where they were going.

The news spread quickly once some seniors got them back inside the train, and looks and whispers followed them until their compartment but they were all smart enough not to acknowledge them. Reborn knows teachers back at the school will hear about this, and most likely their first stop once they'll arrive will be at a teacher's office if not the headmaster's.

Clearly not the best of first impression, but it's not like he cares much about it. What Reborn cares about is how their parents will surely receive a letter about it too. They did ride a train on its roof no matter how brief, and jumped on it for one of them.

Reborn steals a look at the purple haired boy sat on the seat opposite, on the door sides. He wanted to be early on the train to escape the craziness of its departure, thought he could just wait to be in the actual school before doing his best to turn his parents crazy. But jumping on the train while it's leaving the platform…

Reborn should have thought about it. He can only imagine his parents' face when they'll read the letter, and he almost regrets he won't be there to see it in person.

He gives the boy a smile he doesn't see and gazes back at the window. The excited chatter of the others students fills the silence of their compartment, muffled as it is by the closed door, alongside the train's wheels and the occasional steam whistle. He's quite bored now that everything settled down. The blond one of the group sent his bird flew off the window to give some sort of message to his parents, but beside that nothing else happened.

He just closed his eyes when someone speaks up.

"I'm glad we all made it." All eyes zero on Purple Boy, who doesn't shy away from the attention. "It was a bit scary but it was fun too, right ?"

"'A bit' ?"

The boy perks up, oblivious to Viper's incredulous tone. "Yeah, I never jumped on a train before. And the roof ! Oh, wait, how did you got there ?"

"My sister made us appear there," Red Shirt says, a polite smile on his lips.

"Oh the blonde girl ? That was so cool ! Tell her to not forget me next me okay ?" His feet sway back and forth in excitement, only to stop and freeze like any of them voiced their disbelief aloud. "If she wants of course," he adds quickly. "Please ? Tell her I said please."

Red Shirt looks around quickly but doesn't get any help from them. He smiles wider and talks with a confident voice. "Okay, I will. Promise. I'm sure she won't mind."

Purple boy's shoulders sag, and he slumps against the wall. "Thank you." His grin is back on his face and his feet sway with a renewed enthusiasm. "I wished they'd let us longer on the roof you know ? It was going so fast ! And the wind too, it was hard to hear right ?"

The girl's voice cuts through his bubble. "It wasn't fun at all. I almost fell, remember ?"

"I do," the boy says defensively. He straightens up and curls his hands around the straps of his backpack. "I'm the one who caught you — we both caught you." He steals a glance at the blond boy opposite Reborn. "I wasn't talking about that..." His voice dwindles out at the end when the girl crosses her arm on her chest. He looks down, his shoulders hunched over. Both Red Shirt and Verde open their mouths then, but he perks up again and cuts them off. "I'm Skull by the way ! It's my street name but I like it better. What's your names ?"

There's another bout of silence and Reborn brings his hat over his mouth to hide his smile. Verde's frustration beside him goes up another notch when he notices anyway.

The blond huffs a laugh. "I'm Colonnello."

"Reborn." He gives them a quick nod.

"Fon." Red Shirts says, then tilts his head. "Your parents gave you the name of a street ?"

Skull hasn't the time to react at all to that that Colonnello bursts out laughing. Even Verde is smiling. Reborn leans forward a bit, ready to learn another thing about the muggle world.

"What ?" He waves his hands quickly. "No, no, they didn't... I don't... maybe ?" When Fon looks even more confused, Skull only shrugs. "I'm an orphan so I don't know how my parents chose my name. My real name I mean."

Colonnello comes to the rescue. "It's a muggle thing guys. Like a nickname or something."

Skull cries his agreement and they drop the matter. Reborn still makes note to do some research later, by asking Skull himself preferably.

The girl sighs loudly. "I'm Lal."

"Verde."

"Get out of my compartment." Viper says, and gets ignored like the other three times.

"Nice to meet you !" Skull beams, almost falling from his seat. "I'm Skull," he says again, and he still needs a second to catch on on his mistake when they laugh at him. Then he's laughing with them good-naturedly.

The silence falls back in the compartment after that, and Reborn makes himself comfortable in his seat, puts both of his feet on the floor. They'll arrive only at night, it's going to be a long ride. Maybe he could nap during some of it.

If Skull would be kind enough to shut up anyway. "Do you guys want to see my octopus ?"

All eyes zero on him again and it already feels familiar. Reborn is only half surprised to realize he's the one to cut through the silence with his laugh.

An octopus ? That's what he chose to bring as his pet ? A muggle with an octopus as his pet, who jumps on moving train without a second thought and goes by the name of Skull.

His parents will hate him.

Reborn is keeping him.

But first —

"Can i just say —" he waits for the attention to shift on him, and then a bit longer for dramatic effect — "his name is Viper."

Fon doesn't like this Reborn guy. The boy likes troubles, and doesn't seem the type to bother with taking responsibility for them. The seats and walls are shaking, the window and the door vibrating, and he's afraid the shelves above their heads will fall on them alongside their luggage.

Viper stands in all his anger, blocking the way to the door, and it looks like he's holding his wand underneath his cape. Reborn has his own too but he just sits there, blinking innocently at them while his smile is all but innocent.

"What are you doing ?" Lal screams. She's the closest to Viper apart from Fon, and backed down against Verde. Skull is standing in the corner, itching for the door little by little. "Stop it, you're gonna break everything !"

"Apologize to him," Colonnello urges, tugging at Reborn pants. His eyes dart between him, Viper and the window. "You just insulted him right ?"

Reborn face turns even more innocent. "Not at all, it's his real name."

A crack appears on the window. "I didn't want to give it to you."

"Why not ?" Viper turns around to look at Skull and Fon stands up to go to his side just in case. "Don't you like it ? I think it's a cool one but you can always choose another one you know ? Right ?" He looks to the others for support and Colonnello is quick to nod enthusiastically.

"Yeah, of course. Totally. Whatever you'd like, right guys ?"

"That's not what I meant."

"What did you mean ?" Skull frowns, obviously lost. He steals a glance at Fon but he's not sure either. The compartment is still shaking all over. "What did you mean ?" He asks Viper again. "Maybe Reborn just doesn't know either ?"

One of the shelf almost falls down and they all jump out of their seat. Their luggage stays in a precarious balance on it. Skull takes a step closer to the door and Fon follows him.

A few, tense seconds later everything stills but no one dares to move anyway. Viper sits back down without a care, and they still don't move.

"You're all idiots." He smooths his cape around him. "Don't speak to me again. Or call me by my name, I didn't want you to know it." There's a pause then before he looks up. "Or use 'he' with me."

"You're a girl ?" Colonnello blurts out, and slaps his hands on his mouth too late.

"Don't use 'she' either." He — he ? — continues before any of them can voice their questions. "'They' and 'their' are fine. But it's only for the people who can talk to me."

Colonnello jabs Reborn in the ribs before he can say anything. The shelf falls down loudly and they all startle. Viper doesn't — can he use doesn't ? — acknowledge the stares they get.

When they all sit back, some of their luggage and the shelf under the seats, Reborn looks as pleased and unbothered as before all this and Fon decides to just ignore him. He really doesn't like him.

He does likes Skull however, or Purple — for his hair, and sweater, and backpack, and shoes. Fon is more of a red guy himself but it fits him. He's quiet now and it fits him less.

He nudges him with his elbow. "You said you had an octopus ?"

Skull's face lights up. "I do ! Look." He pulls his necklace out from under his sweater, of all the places he could have hide an octopus. At the end of it there's a fishbowl inside which an octopus has all his tentacles against the glass and doesn't move. There's water too, and hopefully some tiny holes for air.

Skull taps the fishbowl two times and the animal comes to life, splashing the water lazily. "I called him Oodako. I found him when we went on the beach this one time with the orphanage. He was hurt so i brought him back with me."

"He's… really tiny."

"Yeah, I needed to hide him. And it's easier when i have to go out. But I can make him bigger ! You wanna see ?"

Fon nods eagerly. Skull unlocks the fishbowl from its chain and puts it on one of his thigh. He cups it with both of his hands and bites his lip in concentration.

It takes a moment for the makeshift aquarium to grow bigger. The octopus grows with it until it's the size of a soccer ball. Skull moves it from his thigh and puts it in between them both.

"Ta-da !" He grins proudly at him. Oodako swims in circle, enjoying his gain of space, even if the water barely reaches up half of his tentacles now.

Someone tugs his shirt in his back. "Can't see," Colonnello complains, and Fon leans back to stop blocking his view. He takes the opportunity to turn his gaze towards the others who are all looking their way. There is not much else to do he guesses.

"Doesn't he need to be completly submerged in water ?" Verde asks.

"Not anymore. But Oodako feels better when he is in water so I need to find him an aquarium when we'll be in school. Oh, look." Skull glances at the door before taking out the fishbowl's lid. Oodako clings at the edge with two tentacles and peeks his head above it. "Say hi Oodako."

Fon waves back at the octopus, chuckling a little. He startles a bit when Litchi jumps down from his head on his lap. "Want to say hi too, Litchi ?" Oodako keeps waving and Skull reaches over to scratch Litchi's head. They grin at each other.

"I don't think they'll let you keep it at school."

Skull immediately brings Oodako close to his chest. He glares at Reborn. "Why not ? He won't do anything bad."

"It's an octopus. Hogwarts only accepts owls and cats and toads." Skull curls on himself further and Fon wants to step on Colonnello's foot.

"Viper is the only one with a toad here. Or frog. Whatever."

That shuts all of them up. Fon actually can't see their pets being allowed to stay with them at Hogwarts. But he really can't see himself stay there without Litchi with him either. None of them can, if their upset face is anything to go by.

At least he's not the one with a centipede.

Skull and Colonnello gasp, Reborn snorts, and oh, did he spoke out loud ?

Lal doesn't know how she ended up there, with these guys. No, actually, it's pretty clear. It's the blond one's fault — Colonnello or whatever, why did they exchange their names ? Lal has no intention to stay with them if she doesn't have to. He ran into her and everything got worse from there.

No, actually, if her parents just let her do things the magic way, she'd arrived sooner and wouldn't have meet any of them. It's really her parents' fault, as usual.

It's a bit Skull's fault too, and definitely Fon's sister's. Why wouldn't she make them appear inside the train ? Or make the train stop ? Or anything else than what she did really.

So Lal knows exactly how she ended up there, with these guys. She doesn't know why this is happening to her. She'd listen to Viper and go find herself another compartment, but then she'd have to answer the questions and what not.

She is stuck with them until they arrive at school.

She isn't going to let them talk bad about Zamza.

"Don't insult him."

"I'm not," Fon is quick to say. "I'm sorry. He is really cute."

"He is really big. How big is he ?" Verde leans forward a bit and she scoots closer to Viper. Zamza is tightly curled on himself on her lap and she wrapps her hands around him. "Did you enchant him ?"

"Did you ?" She asks him, looking pointedly at the baby alligator on his shoulder.

"Keiman is really a baby. But he is enchanted. What about your centipede ?"

Lal doesn't answer. She gives Viper some space back and busies herself with stroking Zamza lightly. She doesn't have to play nice with them, does she ? If Viper can ignore them all and be ignored in turn, there's no reason she can't do it too.

Besides, she has other things to think about. Like how she'll smuggle Zamza in the castle. She had a plan. Zamza is really easy to hide and ignore when he is in his original size, Lal is sure no one would have notice. But now she drew attention on her and she's afraid the teachers will search her or something.

Maybe she should just leave them behind and actually find another compartment in the train. Then she could pretend she has nothing to do with them.

Zamza stirrs under her too-heavy caresses and crawls under her shirt to wrap around her belly. Some of the others wince at the sight and it makes her smile.

"Is he under your shirt ? That's disgusting."

Lal leans forward to look at Reborn, who is in much the same position at her. "Disgusting yourself."

"Where did you even find him ?"

"How did you train him ?" Colonnello says and goes ignored.

"Where did you find your lizard ?"

"Leon is the best lizard you'll ever see in your whole life."

"Zamza could swallow him whole."

Viper snickers, not subtle at all, and Lal grins with all of her teeth out. Reborn narrows his eyes for a second before smiling his stupid smile.

"You're so not cute. Like your pet." He straightens up and puts his hat back on his head. "Leon is a girl, and if you hurt her I'm going to hurt you."

She jumps on her feet. "Not if I hurt you first." Lal could take him. Even if he could fight his suit would make it difficult. She's taller than him too.

Reborn peers up at her and she raises her eyebrows in challenge.

"Well, I think you're really cute. Right guys ? Don't listen to him."

Colonnello flashes her a bright, genuine smile which leaves her speechless. All the focus is on her now in a way she's not comfortable with and she deflates quickly. She glares at those ready to speak up and they settle to only smile at her, which makes her blush anyway.

Zamza wiggles and she crosses her arms above him to keep him in place. She can handle some compliments just fine. This is nothing.

"Are you all blind ?" Lal turns around back to Reborn. He looks her up and down. "You're even less cute than your centipede. Or any girl i have ever seen." He smiles proudly, and she takes a deep long breath.

He doesn't see her coming when she jumps on him.

Viper almost wishes their saviors would have left them on the roof, almost. Or that they would have missed the train. Or maybe some of them could have fall off the roof.

On the bright side Lal is trying to kill Reborn right now and it's honestly the highlight of their day. They have half the mind to help her, seeing that the others look more like they want to stop the fight, but then Reborn would want his revenge on them.

Verde's screams of distress goes ignored, caught between the two, not because they don't want to help but they have to gather the courage to try to interfere first. Skull jumped on his feet at some point to do something — Viper really isn't sure when it comes to the boy —, but got yank back in his seat by Fon.

Still, they hope the ride won't be like that until the end. It feels like they're stuck with them since forever already, but it must have been only a couple hours since the train left. It must have been one hour at the very least since the train left. Merlin be good, it has to be.

The door opens and Viper looks up to see a boy of their age, with a round face and black hair, half hidden by the wall. He doesn't meet their eyes, not like he could anyway. He doesn't meet Skull's or Fon's eyes either, the only two others who noticed him.

The boy glances at the fight, where the trio is now standing up, and immediately looks down and keep his eyes there. "Sorry, I, um — sorry. Did you see my toad maybe ? I lost him."

Skull and Fon look at them and Skull earns a kick in the shin for that. "Fantasma is mine."

"We didn't see him, sorry." Fon says while Skull tries to kick back and fails.

The boy manages to smile back before he goes running. By now Colonnello is entangled in the fight too, which moved on to the floor. He's not succeeding with whatever he's trying to do, which just might be because of how much fun he seems to be having.

Viper doesn't pay enough attention from then on to know how they all break apart and sit back. They only care that they do, and welcome the silence back seeing they have decisions to make.

They have one decision to make actually — no, actually they already did take their decision, they're just not sure if they should act on it. They just want to say hello, but they don't want to bother him. Or they could just walk past his compartment and get a good look of him.

Viper goes as far as touching the floor with their tip toes before sliding back in their seat. Again.

"Do you want to pee ?" It takes them a moment to understand Verde is talking to them.

"What ?"

"You keep moving in your seat. I'm sure there is a restroom somewhere in the train."

"I don't want to pee."

"But you want to go somewhere ?"

Colonnello bounces on his seat. "Oh. Oh ! Do you want to go see Harry Potter ? He's there right ? I heard you say his name when we were on the roof."

"Harry Potter is there ?" Reborn asks.

"That's what Viper said."

"Who's Harry Potter ?"

Verde backs down when they gap at him. Viper themselves has to fight against their shock, but Verde is a muggle after all. Besides, they're glad for the change of subject.

"Who's Harry Potter ?" Skull asks again.

Colonnello launches himself into the story, and Viper thinks it's the most calm and amicable they all have been with each other since they met. When he's done both Skull and Verde and Colonnelo himself are looking at them expectantly, and they can't really hide their own eagerness.

They stand up and all three of them make their way to Harry Potter's compartment.

On their way there they realize they're not doing a good job at ignoring these people so far, but they can't care about that right now.

Harry Potter.

It's weird Colonnello never really realized they were born the same year. Never did the math and realized they'd start Hogwarts at the same time.

He's sharing a train with Harry Potter and he isn't quite realizing this either. He heard so much about him growing up, had been told his story so many times, for him he was always a character of the most incredible story more than a real, living kid he could meet one day.

The skip in his steps doesn't leave him even when the bite Verde's alligator left him pulses with pain each time. Viper is a few feet ahead, walking and floating in turn, stopping dead in their tracks other times, and he tries to not laugh too loudly.

Skull tugs at his sleeve. "This Big Bad Guy who attacks babies, he is dead right ? Right ?"

"Yeah, of course."

"I have questions too," Verde says from his other side. "Will I find books where I could learn more ?"

Colonnello snorts. "Yeah, a lot."

He looks back forward when Verde smiles, satisfied, only to bump into Viper who manages to not even bulge. They stay quiet so he has to peak above their shoulder to see what's happening. He blinks at the two boys inside the compartment at their left, one with red hair and the other with black hair, and neither of them look much like a Harry Potter.

He notices then the mountain of candy between them and bursts into the compartment without thinking.

"Did you buy all the trolley for yourselves ?" He cries indignantly and the boys startle. "I wanted some too you know !"

He marches forward, and the black haired boy scrambles to his feet so quickly he almost falls. He plasters himself against the window and Colonnello pauses, taken aback.

Skull steps on his foot and promptly ignores his cries of pain. "That was really mean Colonnello. You shouldn't scare people like that." Colonnello gapes at him, but he only turns around to face the other boy. "Hi." He waves cheerfully. "Sorry about him, he's just hungry. Just forget him okay ? I'm Skull."

"Harry," the boy says shyly.

"Ron. Ron Wesley."

"Hi Ron." Skull waves at him too. "This is Colonnello, Verde and Viper. Are you okay with sharing the candy with us ?"

Ron and Harry exchange a look before respectively smiling and shrugging their shoulders. Colonnello is still pouting when the fourth of them sit opposite them. He is still pouting even when they let them choose whichever candy they want among their pile.

Skull stepped on his foot hard, and it hurts. He wants to take his revenge on him but then Harry catches his eye and immediately looks away. He doesn't look back.

Colonnello frowns. Did he actually scare the boy ? He chews on his lip, and the more he looks at Harry, small and thin and swimming in his clothes, the worse he feels.

"I'm sorry Harry," he blurts out. "Mom always say I can be a bit scary sometimes." He laughs a bit, scratching his head. "Please forgive me ?" He offers back a chocolate frog, and grins when Harry takes it with a little smile.

It's less awkward after that. Ron and him watch over Verde and Skull discovering magical candies, laughing at the various faces they make, with Harry butting in here and there. Viper stays worryingly silent beside him. And still. Colonnello hopes their eyes aren't frozen on Harry too, because even if they can't see them the boy is bound to notice. He wouldn't be surprised if they are, Colonnello himself can't help stealing glances at him.

It's Verde who turns out the bravest of them. "You're Harry Potter then ? The one with the lightning scar ?"

Harry only holds his hair up with a little smile. Viper gasps, much like himself. The scar is… more normal looking than he would have thought really. But it's the scar, left there by the Killing Curse, which Harry survived.

Harry lets his hair fall down and he is a bit disappointed at that.

"Does it hurt you ?" Skull asks. He lightens up when Harry shakes his head instead of speaking up with his mouth full. "You saved the world then ? Like a super hero. That's really cool."

Harry chuckles. "Not really, I was just a baby." He shrugs. "I didn't do anything."

"What're you saying mate ?" Ron exclaims. "You survived the Killing Curse. And You-Know-Who. You defeated him."

"I think —" Viper's voice comes out strangled, and their face looks a little red. Colonnello bumps their shoulders together to encourage them. They clear their throats, and they all quiet down in response. "I think all the magical world should thank you, Harry."

No one says anything for a moment but Viper bravely stands their ground, his back and head straight. When the surprise passes, Harry gives them a genuine small and they relax.

"Thank you. But I'd prefer it if you could all thank my parents instead."

Viper nods but don't say anything else. They held their head low, their hands clutching his cape on their lap. Their cheeks are bright red but there's a smile on their lips.

Colonnello puts an arm around their shoulder and keep his laugh silent. Skull doesn't manage to do the same and he kicks him halfheartedly.

Later when Ron's rat make an appearance and Verde screams at its sight, they both burst out laughing.

When the others come back from meeting with Harry and Ron, they all launch into an animated conversation about The Boy Who Lived.

The Boy Who Lived.

Skull isn't sure how he feels about the whole story. He knows he finds it horrible what happened to Harry, and really scary, even if he understands why the magical world would see him as a hero. He finds it really sad too that he lose his parents when he was only a baby.

They don't talk about that though. They don't talk about how Harry is so small and so thin for his age either, or how his clothes are too big for him and look old, or how he backed down from Colonnello when he made a beeline for him in his full height and with his loud voice.

A lot of the kids at the orphanage looked just like him on their first day, and a lot of the other days after too. If he's not an orphan then Skull is sure his family isn't a good or a kind one. He hopes it isn't a violent one at least.

Maybe Harry and him could become friends.

Oodako nudges his foot where he puts him under the window and he smiles at him gratefully. He stays out of the lively conversation anyway, and leans against the wall to gaze out the window.

Viper's voice is the one he hears the most surprisingly, all excited and energetic. He seems nice when he's not busy pretending he's not. They seem nice when they're not busy pretending they're not — or is it 'their not' ? — Skull needs to ask… Viper for a more clear explanation.

He lets the conversation lulls him to sleep, and when Fon wakes him up it's dark outside.

"We're almost there," he whispers. "You should change too. And hide Oodako."

Skull straightens up immediately, all need to sleep forgotten. He hurries to take off his backpack and fishes out his uniform but pauses halfway.

"Where's Lal ?"

"She's changing somewhere else," Fon says, and a blush rises up both of their cheeks.

They change in their uniforms in silence, a nervous and excited energy all around them. When Viper appears back, they're wearing pants and his robe — their robe doesn't show anything. Skull just shrugs it off and lets the matter drop altogether, and the others do the same. The pointy hat who goes down all the way to their nose is still a bit disappointing. How do they even see anything like that ?

Skull shrugs that off too and hurries to get off the train, the others right behind him. He takes a deep breath of fresh air once he's outside. The platform is crowded, everyone whispered chatter merging together until he can't make out anything.

Skull is of average size so he doesn't see much past the other students around him. The literal giant ahead of him is hard to miss though.

"All the first years," the giant screams, "come with me. This way please."

The movement of the crowd moves him forward while he can only look starred-eyed at the giant. A helpless and nervous and gleeful chuckle escapes him, and he needs to stumble on his feet first to stop staring.

His smiles falls down when he notices Viper walking away from them.

"Wait Viper, where are you going ?"

"Away from you, what do you think ? " Lal gives them a pointed look before disappearing in the crowd too.

Verde follows her in her tracks. "I'm going too. I want to focus on my studies and you guys are… distracting."

Fon makes a noise and Skull turns his head so fast it cracks. "You too ?"

"I want to see if I can handle myself without help." He gives him a sheepish smile. "My parents want me to have good grades too."

Colonnello wraps an arm around their shoulders. "My parents too. And they'll freak out when they'll learn about the train thing, so I need to really behave from now." He gives them a tap in their back and squeezes between the two of them without looking back. Fon follows, and does look back, but follows anyway.

And just like that they're all gone.

Skull tries to find back his smile. It's a bit disappointing, but it's not like they won't see each other again. Maybe they'll even be in the same class, and Skull could try to be their friends again. Or he can try to find other friends than them, they don't seem really interested after all.

He puts his hands in his pockets and stops searching them in the crowd.

Reborn falls back in step with him and he almost jumps out of his skin. "Looks like it's just us now."

"Reborn ! What — you — you're staying ? With me ?"

Reborn tilts his head. "You don't want to ? You're fun, I like you."

"No ! I mean yes — I mean —" he trails off, and tries not to hope too much. He narrows his eyes. "You still slammed me against a brick wall."

"I apologized."

"No you didn't."

"Really ?" Reborn blinks innocently at him and Skull finds himself laughing. He intertwines their arms together.

"It's okay, I forgive you. Let's try to get close to the giant and talk to him when we can, okay ?"

"Sure."

Skull grins at him and grins wider when Reborn smiles back. A skip is back to his steps, and he hums a random tune to himself. He made himself a friend. Only one, but that's just what he asked isn't it ?

Skull hoped to find at least one friend at his new school, and he did. That's all he needs to be happy.

- lal has no chills, and i focus on her anger for now but remember the girl is stressed alright. she is just lashing out, which granted is maybe not the best way to deal with her anger lmao. my point is, you'll see other sides of her eventually

- colonnello has most definitely a crush, which might or might not last

- viper have a crush of their own too you might say qmdlmqss

A lot of interactions in this chapter, i hope it was fine. They part way at the end of the chapter but they obviously will find each other again, no worries. They already like each other for some of them (while some are vowing their eternal hate to each other qmflkglqkld).

Verde's POV comes back next chapter.

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I'm just so slow whenever i write this story, it's unbelievable. And i don't mean it in a i struggle writing the chapters way. I know what i want to write, and where i'm going, and what happens after. I'm just... slow jfkkmdslù.

Anyway, to the guest' comment, thank you so much for your kind review, i'm glad you like it !

And i also need to say that all credit for the title of this story goes to FireEmblemLover39. Thanks again !

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