#19 Breakfast

When an owl landed on his goblet, Ezra simply blinked at it as he worked on chewing his bite of toast. Did he have another letter? He wondered who...

"Hi," he finally said once he had finished, smiling at the strangely fluffy creature. "Is that for me?"

He looked between his jam-sticky fingers and the letter, then quickly wiped his fingers clean so that he could accept the post.

"Thank you!" he said to the cute little owl. He was impressed that she had managed to deliver the letter and thought that she deserved a treat for a job well done, so he quickly scanned the platters to see what she might like. He settled on a piece of bacon that he then held out for her to snatch up as payment.

The owl thanked, he opened the parchment, wiggling about on his seat in his excitement for finding out who had written him such a long letter.

Ezra grinned at the letter as soon as his eyes flicked to the bottom to see who it was from. It was from home! She had written him back!

Not noticing as the hall slowly emptied around him, he settled in to read his happy surprise. He only got a few lines in though before he paused to double check what he had read.

Marcus? As in Uncle Marcus?

His eyes flicked back down to the bottom to check that he had correctly read who it was from. He had. That was.. odd? Unexpected? Something like that.

He only grew more confused when the letter mentioned his dad too.

Ezra was not sure he could actually remember the last time that she had talked about either of the men. Had she ever done so to him? He wondered what had changed that she so casually would.
Was it as simple as having an old friend back? That made sense, he supposed, friends made everything better.

Whatever the reason, Ezra decided that he would let the others know. He was not sure if they had received their own letters (he hoped they had!), but he thought they would like to see what she had written anyway. He was sure that Jaxen at least would be happy that she was not alone, since it was him who had brought up her having friends in the first place.

That settled, Ezra finally focused on the tease that was summer plans. He really wanted to know what that was all about! It had to be big if it took so much planning.

He let himself drift in thoughts on what the surprise could be for a while, daydreaming about what might be planned, before he eventually managed to drag himself back to the present in a panic. Never mind the summer, he had plans for that morning!

Scared that he had missed his chance for Reena-time, and that she might have taken that as a sign that he no longer loved her, he scrambled for his bag. It should be easy enough to check if she was still in the lab.

"Pointus Reena Ashworth," he said once he finally had his wand pointed at his map of the castle. With the memory of his charms lecture, and all that Professor Rivera had taught them, fresh in his mind, Ezra's voice was confident as he cast the spell. If there was anyone that he was sure it would work on, then it had to be his sibling's, right?

His eyes focused on his map, Ezra hastily put his backpack on and, with his letter safely held in his hand behind the map, made his way out of the hall.

[exit]