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[potter]

"I guess that woman just didn't have much a sense of humour," Elliot said thoughtfully, she didn't really like generalizing groups like Nix had just done in her last sentence. She was certain that there were muggles that would have found a wild-looking cat pouncing after chocolate mice funny, just not the shop owner. "Me as well," said Elliot, she did like hanging around muggle London occasionally, but she did have some errands to do in Diagon Alley. She needed some more potion ingredients, and she desperately needed some more polish for her wand, the fingerprints on the handle simply weren't budging when she tried to get rid of them by rubbing it on her clothes.

[nixnight]

Nix smiled before looking around and then dipping a hand in to the pocket of her combats and taking out a list on parchment, "I need the lightning designs back from the broom shop, a new broom cleaning set for mayas birthday and a few pet things for the others plus some little things for myself it seems" she said as she looked down the list and saw the line in red where the list stopped being for her forest siblings and started being her own items for her own education. "would you like to come with me under the wall or do you have other things you rather do?" nix asked politely as she dropped the list under her robe to hide its wizarding terms from the muggles around her

[potter]

Elliot didn't respond as Nix read aloud the things from her list that she needed to get in Diagon Alley. She herself wouldn't be nearly so loud about it, there were muggles everywhere. Though of course, they were in the heart of London, and people there were accustomed to the odd and unusual- even without wizards and witches being involved. Elliot could probably walk around in her cloak if she so desired and warrant only a few odd looks. "Oh, I'll go with you," said Elliot, "I've a few things that I need to pick up over in that part of town." She reflected a moment on what exactly she needed from the apothecary, she would have normally written a list but had not done so that day.

[nixnight]

Nix smiled as Elliot agreed to go with her and then paused as she considered taking out her wand but then thought better of it, saying odd words in public was ok but taking out a wand was not the smartest thing to do. She turned to Elliot and then waved a hand down the street before then lifting it to stroke minx's head ,"would you care to lead the way" she said with a grin and a chuckle. Minx gave a small mew as soon as nix's hand left her head and nix laughed at her oldest friend before lifting her hand and stroking the wildcat between her ears again

[potter]

"Certainly," said Elliot, smiling. She found that she was enjoying spending time with Nix and her odd cat. Perhaps it was because she really didn't get out that often. She had been trying to remedy that for a while, Elliot found that she liked to go dancing in muggle clubs, but would probably go more often if she had someone to go with. Not necessarily a boyfriend, though she wasn't opposed to the idea, but it was boring going alone. Elliot smiled a bit as she lead the way down the street, it was nice to be spending time with someone who she didn't know from work. "Nearly there," said Elliot, more so to herself than to Nix as she came to a stop at the corner, waiting for the signal to allow them to cross the busy street.

[nixnight]

Nix smiled and began to herself softly as she walked down the road beside her new friend before they stopped beside the road and nix looked up at the light before trying to remember how they worked and which colour she had to wait for. She considered green but then shook her head as the cars shot past before waiting for the red light and walking over the road and stopping outside the leaky caldron and then pausing again and standing back to allow Elliot to walk in first

[potter]

Elliot cleared the intersection just before the light changed again, allowing the traffic to begin zooming by once more. She happily gazed upon the Leaky Cauldron, she had spent many a night there with her favourite red wine and a book. True, the building was in disrepair unlike the nice muggle buildings on either side of it, but it was like seeing a familiar face. Elliot nodded to Nix as the redhead paused to allow her to go in first. The pub was empty at this time of day, only the barkeep was there, rubbing a glass with a rag staring off into space. "Shall we?" said Elliot, gesturing to the brick wall before taking out her wand to tap the appropriate brick to grant them access to Diagon Alley.

[nixnight]

*wanna move the thread over now? Or keep it going here?*

Nix smiled as Elliot ducked in the pub before quickly dipping her hand inside her robe and taking out her list again and checking down it before nodding, she walked in behind her friend and then quickly ducked over to the bar and turned the list over to show a form on it's back and showed it to the barman and he looked it over before giving a toothy smile and nodding himself. He put down his rag and glass and bent under the bar and took out a red wrapped card board box and handed it to nix before taking his glass up again and nix took the box from the counter and ran back to her friend as she spoke again. "after you" she said in a slightly breathless voice from her running, she had never been the sporty kinda person to actually enjoy running unless it was slow and for a good reason

[potter]

Elliot stood back as the archway appeared in what used to be a solid brick wall, smiling a bit. No matter how many times she did that it was always like the first time. Elliot had grown up with magic, but it never failed to captivate her. So many things could be done with it, with magic it seemed that nothing was impossible. She stepped through the arch, immediately feeling that she was back where she belonged. "Where do you need to go?" asked Elliot, she would be fast as she only needed a couple of things, and there wasn't any immediate rush to get what she was needing.

[nixnight]

Nix smiled as the wall broke apart and she felt minxs tail twitch around her back, the cat had never really like loud noises and all the bricks moving seemed to have annoyed her a little. Nix lifted a hand and stroked between the wildcats ears before answering her friend ,"I need some things for potions, a kitten for Maya and then some things for my brooms and maybe something for minx too" she said before tilting her head to one side and giving a small grin. "but money should be a handy thing to have on hand too" she said to herself and considered flicking her head but thought it may make her seem just a little bit too mad

[potter]

"Right," said Elliot, "then shall we go to Gringott's first?" Nix had mentioned that she had needed to get some money. Elliot wouldn't go with her to her vault, that seemed a bit too personal for acquaintances, but she did need to convert a portion of her last paycheque to muggle money, she was using quite a bit of it since she had moved into a muggle flat. She needed to pay rent, utilities, and groceries. At least she had come across a handy clothes-washing spell that eliminated her need to go to the laundromat, but she still needed some muggle money. Elliot couldn't pay her rent in Galleons, the landlord would react strangely.

[nixnight]

Nix nodded her head and then started to walk up the street, she got a fair few giggle and pointing fingers up at minx on her shoulder and then couldn't help but pause outside the broom shop on the street corner. A large group of children were crowed round it looking at the new lightning bolt in the window and nix did her best not to break out in a fit of laughter at the sighed wrappings it was being sold in ,"signed by a new and upcoming designer pair" it said with two signatures underneath it. Nix shook her head and then wondered if the money would get sent to Tain or to her or both before turning back to see where Elliot was, nix really did have a habit of getting distracted

[potter]

Elliot walked down the somewhat chaotic mainstreet alongside Nix, adjusting her pace so she was going neither faster nor slower than her newfound acquaintance. She reached up to tuck her hair behind her ears when she noticed that Nix had stopped in front of a broom shop. Elliot herself wasn't a flier, she had completely missed out on the Quidditch genes. Her mother had once been in the reserves for the Holy-Head Harpies, and her father one of the best seekers Gryffindor had ever seen. And she couldn't get more than a foot of the ground on a broom without freaking out and clutching to the handle like a cat does to its owner's arm while being given a bath. "Broom fanatic?" asked Elliot when Nix resumed walking with her.

[nixnight]

Nix fought back a smile as elliot spoke to her and then shook her head, "i like to fly as much as anyone but i've always had an eye to see things wrong with a broom and things that could be edited about them and so when i first bought my own firebolt, i have a good freind of mine edit it for me the way i had planned" she said with a smile. She looked back at the now quickly disappearing shop before lowering her voice, "a nimbus scout saw me on the broom and then asked what it was and where it was from and i told him that id designed and changed it and they bought it off me in seconds!" she said with a chuckle. "so im now set with a career if and when i want it" she said with another chuckle as she spotted gringotts coming up ahead of them

[potter]

"That's great," said Elliot genuinely with a smile, she herself had needed to work hard to get where she was, not by chance have someone stumble upon her like that. Granted, she had gone through the training and taken her exams a whole year ahead of schedule, but Elliot felt that was only because she put in so many extra hours. There were times where she was the first one to get to the office and the last one to leave. "I need to exchange for some muggle money," said Elliot, "why don't we meet outside once you've got your money?" It took a while for her to exchange wizard for muggle, usually since they mostly did things the other way around, but that meant she and Nix would probably be done in the bank around the same time.