talent wrote:
"unbelievable," ennie shrieked. she kicked the empty wrought-iron cage beneath her feet and continued stomping around her room in frustration. guin stood perched on ennie’s bedpost, her feathers ruffled by ennie’s tantrum. "way ahead of everyone else in this stupid school in every fucking way, mastering shit nobody should be even thinking about at my age, practice this dumb patronus for months, and it’s a rat?” she punctuated her sentence with an angered scream.
guin’s eyes widened at the mention of a rat. she let out a small hoot to remind ennie it was lunch time.
ennie grunted as she collapsed into the bean bag chair next to her desk. she pulled her robes over her as a blanket, the smooth green velvet lining keeping her warm in the chilly dormitory tower. she yanked her wand out of the front right pocket and opened the jar of dead rodents from across the room, tossing one straight into guin’s awaiting beak. before putting her wand away, she took a long accusatory glance at it. “dragon heartstring inside of this glorified tree branch… walnut no less… and it produces a rat! i must get my mother to buy me a new one. this one is clearly faulty,” she reasoned with herself. “right guin?”
guin swiveled her head to face the wall as she silently swallowed the rat.