Ginny walked next to Lara, as she followed the woman around the HUGE mansion (she would never get over the size of this place). Lara was showing her the different rooms. After the little tour, she was going to show Ginny the room she would be staying in. Ginny noticed the way the Lara held herself and acted. She seemed very sure of herself, like she knew what she was doing. She seemed to glow with happiness and strength. Ginny liked her already.
"And this is your room" Lara said as she opened the door to an elegant room that awed Ginny, she had never had a room like this before. Especially at The Burrow, she thought acidly.
"You like?" Lara asked jokingly, already knowing the answer by the expression on her cousin's face.
"Yeah, oh my god, it's great!" She replied, still aghast. The room was very big and done in dark mahogany, with white lace curtains and silk sheets. There wasn't a lot of color, other than shades of white, and that pretty dark mahogany. But it added to it. The wood seemed to have engravings done everywhere. Symbols, flowers, etc... It was very old-style. But it had a television with a DVD player and a large stereo too, which was kind of odd-looking in the old fashioned style room. Of course Ginny had no clue what these contraptions were, but figured they were muggle devices that must do something interesting. The room had a balcony with a view of the front-yard. The room also had an extremely large closet and bathroom. Ginny never had this nice of a room in her life!!
"I'm glad you like it, your bags will be brought up here, but now we are going down stairs to have some 'girl-talk' " Lara said with a smirk and a twinkle in her eyes.
"Alright" Ginny said perkily, it was nice to have some fun after several days of non-stop depression.
Ginny and Lara walked down to the living room, which was, like all the other rooms in the mansion: elegant. They sat down on the sofa, and faced each other.
"Alright, Ginny, you're a witch right?"
Ginny nodded.
"I just found out about the 'wizarding world', I'm a squib apparently, my dad is dead, and I'm just recently finding out a lot of things he kept from me"
"Really, well, I can tell you all about the wizarding world!" Ginny exclaimed, now having a reason for conversation with her strange new relative.
"And I can tell you all about the muggle world" Lara continued.
"Bonus" Ginny responded, excited
"But first, tell me about yourself" Lara requested, a bit curiously.
"Alright, my name is Ginny and I'm a witch, as you already know......" she started out
Lara nodded
"I will be going into Hogwarts, in my 6th year of magical studies, at the end of the summer"
Lara laughed "Hogwarts?!"
Ginny grinned "Yep, we have four houses there that we stay in, Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, and Slytherin, I'm a Gryffindor" She said and began to explain the basics about each house. Lara found this whole conversation highly amusing. Ginny then told her more about herself, her favorite things, what she liked to do in her free time, etc...
"And that's about it.... now tell me about you" Ginny mock-demanded with a raised brow. Lara was easy to talk to, and Ginny could tell they were going to get along fabulously. Besides that, she listened to Ginny, unlike the rest of her family who liked to pretend she wasn't there. Even her parents did that, right up to the day they died.
"Well, you know that I'm a muggle, but I wouldn't be considered a normal muggle" Lara started out.
Ginny looked at her curiously.
"I'm a tomb raider"
Ginny looked at her a bit oddly now.
"I raid tombs for ancient artifacts and items, some are very magical"
Ginny nodded and looked eager to hear more. Lara told her what kinds of things she had to do, being a tomb raider, the physical stuff- fighting, and not getting killed, and stories of some of her odd adventures.
"Could you teach me, bring me along some time?" Ginny tentatively.
"What?" Lara asked, a bit skeptical.
"Teach me how to fight, become stronger, let me raid tombs with you, become sort of a tomb raider-trainee" She babbled enthusiastically, she would finally have something to set her apart from others as well as a welcome distraction.
"Well, I don't know-"
"Please, I could help, y'know with magic and all, and I'm nearly sixteen, so I'd be old enough" Ginny practically begged.
Lara definitely did not expect this, but figured the magic could help, and the girl really wanted to. She didn't think she could say no, and the girl was growing on her.
"Alright"
Ginny squealed and hugged Lara.
Lara laughed, but found herself being surprised by this girl again, and hugged her back.
"But this training is gonna be hard. You have to be made of tough stuff missy, cause I'm not gonna let you into this easy. Its hard work and you'll train as such. Got it?"
Ginny nodded- she would take this seriously. Lara smiled again in agreement and then told Ginny more about herself, and Ginny listened eagerly.
It was odd, they were already becoming extremely close, and they had only been together a couple hours.
