A Slytherin Without Ambition
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Akira's face scars. She turns sullen and glares every time Ruuko is nearby, and Ruuko's stomach is in knots the entire time. She didn't mean to scar Akira. She didn't even mean to fire a spell, and certainly not something that could kill someone if she'd aimed it wrong.
And she couldn't even cast that spell on intention. It was a fourth year spell, after all. She can barely manage simple levitation. But apparently she's capable of the level of vindication it takes to cause lasting damage on another person with accidental magic… because their innate magic, by default, shies away from causing hurt.
The rest of her housemates are spooked as well. Not Yuzuki who brushes it off as an accident and snaps at anyone who dares say otherwise. Not Kazuki in Ravenclaw either, who Ruuko has gotten to know through Yuzuki and vice versa. Not Hitoe, who in a surprising show of assertiveness tells off a fellow Hufflepuff.
But none of them know quite what to say to Urazoe Iona's sudden interest in Ruuko.