#5 Practicing Dueling [OPEN]

Abby grinned ear to ear when she defeated Ryan, but she quickly changed her expression. She didn’t want it to seem like she took pleasure in beating a first year. Actually Abby thought it was rather close, Ryan was clearly a well practiced at dueling.

”No thank you! It was a pretty close match, we’ll have to do it again some other time.” Abby wanted Ryan to know that she appreciated the duel and she thought he was a strong opponent. She waved goodbye to him and watched him leave the duelist chamber before redirecting her attention to the young Hufflepuff girl named Ruby.

”Ruby is it? Hi I’m Abby. Did you want to duel? Ryan said you’re rather talented and I could use the practice.” Abby spoke in a warm and enthusiastic tone. She wanted Ruby to feel welcome and not intimidated because of her year.
Abby waited a second before continuing to speak, ”I’ll even let you go first.” Abby prepared herself by taking her spot and holding up her wand beckoning Ruby to join her.