Wandering [Riley/open]

In order to be a good journalist, Emmalynne knew that she had to know as much about her environment. It was one of those details she remembered from listening to her parents taking at home, even though usually those conversations had entailed hearing her mother complaining about papa going somewhere that he shouldn’t. Personally, all she had taken from the eavesdropping was that sometimes a good journalist needed to go places they shouldn’t sometimes, and she knew that her papa wasn’t going to do anything to put his family in danger. Just as she knew that she wasn’t about to start off by going anywhere that she shouldn’t here at Hogwarts, although she also needed to look for hiding spots if she needed to do some reconnaissance for her articles at any point. Right now she was just wandering, though, with her pygmy puff on her shoulder since she hadn’t had any classes for a while. The other part was in the back of her mind, but it wasn’t important yet. It wasn’t important until she had her first article idea for the school paper, and she had yet to officially decide on that.

In any case, her wandering had taken her back to the clock tower courtyard, so she decided to see if anyone else was around. Last time she had been there was for the CoMC group project last term, when she’d technically met Wade, Kim and Shah, and she figured there was every possibility that there was somebody who wasn’t hiding away in their common rooms studying, or hanging around the great hall, or out in the grounds. At least the courtyard was interesting, and a bit more protected from the weather than out in the grounds proper, so she started slowly walking around, occasionally peeking behind things and basically just seeing if her assumption had been right and there actually was someone out here. If not, that was okay too, but she’d rather not be stuck holding a conversation with Doc.

"Emmalynne!" Wade greeted the Hufflepuff as he saw her walking out in the courtyard. He had gone out to stretch a little, but seeing that almost nobody was out, he had started to go back. Walking over to the girl, he said as he flashed his signature smirk to the girl: "Hey, how are you? I haven't seen you since the CoMC project meeting last year."

Interestingly enough, it seemed like the first person that Emmalynne had ended up finding during her slow exploration of the courtyard had been Wade. Someone she’d oddly been thinking about moments earlier, since she’d been remembering that one short meeting for the Care of Magical Creatures project last year. Of course, he had managed to advance to the next year, while she still had to stay back, but she didn’t mind it. At least it was someone she knew, at least the tiniest bit, and she flashed him a bright grin as he had walked over to her. “I’m good. Just sort of exploring,” she explained, as he had posed the question. Of course, he hadn’t asked what she was doing out there, but she had no problems telling him. “I need to make sure I know what’s going on, ‘cause of joining the school paper and all. I figured looking for things was easier if I started somewhere I had been to before. How’re you?”

She was halfway to the point of asking Wade if second year was really that much harder than first year, when another boy seemed to suddenly appear, practically out of nowhere even though she knew he probably had wandered out from the castle just as they had done, and her attention wavered from the Slytherin as the new boy had spoken. “Hi,” she returned, giving him a bright smile as well. “I remember you from classes. You were almost put in a group with me and Daisee in Care of Magical Creatures last lesson. Riley, right?” Somehow, she’d reverted to doing all the talking, or at least a whole lot more of it than either of the two boys had done. At least it maybe meant they would have something to respond to, and she definitely wasn’t going to have to deal with only having her pygmy puff to talk to anymore.

When Emmalynne answered him, Wade couldn't help but ask a silly question. "We have a school paper?!" his eyes widened as soon as the words came out. He had no idea there was a school newspaper, although he guessed it was barely starting.
"You're a journalist them?" his eyebrow raised a little. "Hmm. I feel like I should get a job soon. You're younger than me and already employed!"

It was then that a Ravenclaw boy came up to them. Wade flashed him a smile and greeted him.
"Hey, I'm sorry but I don't think we've met. I'm Wade Malfoy." he said as he turned to Emmalynne again, "I supposed you now have Professor Vega's class together?" and back to the boy whose name was apparently Riley according to her.