#10 - Ready, set, duel!

Eventually deciding to get some duelling practise in, Rylan had originally intended to train his skills (or lack thereof) against as training dummy. While he didn't know Stansbury very well, he had a feeling that he would take what happened in Transfiguration very personally. Not that he was scared or anything, he just didn't want to look a fool if something were to come of it.

With that in mind, it had just been his luck to run into one of his housemates outside the duelling chamber. Not only that, but a classmate, as well as someone who seemed to be a good friend o Jurni's. Unusual for Slytherin's to put up with Hufflepuffs, but then that was old prejudices talking.

For now, it seemed as though she'd had the similar intentions, and so they had agreed to practise with one another. He hadn't really had much interaction with Ashworth before now, but he wasn't as anti Slytherin as most of his own house. Maybe now would be a good opportunity, if they didn't jinx each other into oblivion, that is.

"Okie doke, here we are!", he announced somewhat redundantly as they approached the centre of the room. "So, this your first time, Reena was it?", he then asked, wondering if this was just as much of a new experience for her as it was for him. "Not much of a dueller myself, but that's what practise is for, right?", he added with a grin.

Reena Ashworth  (meeting with permission of writer)