Chapter Seventeen
Authors Note: Sorry this chapter's so short, I haven't been feeling too well lately, but this is better than nothing. Would really love to hear from you guys though! Thank you.
She kissed him on the check, which surprised the both of them and said goodnight, tomorrow would be a day that required a lot of sleep.
Ava was rudely awoken the next morning by James and Sirius shouting at her and Lily to wake up, at the crack of dawn. She quite literally meant the crack of dawn, the sun hadn't risen yet but it was already quite light outside. The grass outside was dewy, few birds sang and the air was shockingly chilly. Once up, dressed and fed the four Gryffindor students began to discuss how they were going to tackle today. Which quickly turned into a light hearted heated argument.
They were all either sat or stood around the sofa and arm chairs in the girls tent. The main discussing point was if they were all going off together, in pairs or on the own. Quickly they eliminated the idea of travelling off on their own, in an environment that was alien to some of them it would be stupid to do so. And they were now debating whether them pairing up was a good idea.
The argument had a 3:1 split. Ava, Sirius and James all agreed that pairing up would be the best option because with it, they could cover more ground and have someone to watch their backs. But Lily strongly believed that it would be safer to all go together, even if that way took double the time to cover the same amount of grounds..
Sirius was the one to bring about a compromise.
"Lily listen to me" He shouted to get his voice heard over James and Ava's. They soon hushed after they heard him. "We pair up, but split everything. Food, tents, medicines and make doubles of the maps. Just in case. Before we go out we select a meeting point to go to at the end of that day and we go looking for anything. If we find something we go straight to the meeting a point and find a way of telling the others. Does that sound like a good idea?" He finished maintain eye contact with his red headed friend. Whom stood with her arms crossed across her chest and had her chin ever so slightly jutting outward. He raised his eyebrows and learned forward on the balls of his feet waiting for her answer.
Lily was quiet for a moment thinking through everything he had said. She tucked a lock of hair behind he ears and bit her lip. "Yes." She said quietly. "But we change the meeting point each day, I don't want to risk someone finding us, okay?" Everyone agreed with her.
Lily reached into her rucksack that was on the floor beside the sofa and carefully pulled out three muggle compasses. "if any of us gets lost out there and can't, for some reason use their wands or magic, these will help you find your way back to our meeting points." She handed them out and gave a quick demonstration to James and Sirius on how they use them.
Ava took this time to make three more copies of all their maps, so there was one for each of them.
Once the boys knew how to use their compasses with their maps, they set about locating a safe spot to use as their first meeting point at nightfall that night and began packing up all their belongings. James was set on not letting Lily out of his sight so those two would be pairing off together and heading out in a south-west direction and Ava and Sirius would be heading out in a south-east direction.
Happy they had evenly distributed their stuff out, they all quickly said their goodbyes and wished each other the very best of luck. For luck is most definitely what they will all need, luck and bravery.