It had been a few weeks since school started and Ellie still felt a little odd being back at Hogwarts. After a day of class, she often found herself turning to go to the Hufflepuff den instead of towards the exits to go home to Beth and Zachariah. She'd catch herself before she got there, of course, and was always home by the time the nanny was cooking dinner at their modest home in North Bartonburg, but you'd think having been gone for several years and coming back she'd look at the place differently.

Ellie had inherited the earth magic classroom from a previous professor who had left his touch all over the place. It was clear to see that they had differing opinions about what earth magic was and how to celebrate and use it. She wanted to completely redecorate her classroom and adjoining office and since she had only the two classes today, she decided to take the afternoon and hunt down things to make her classroom feel more homey and conducive for learning about the topic she was so passionate about.

Now she was wandering the grounds, with a purpose but little direction about where to actually go, she'd never gone to the groundskeeper's home as a student, and now that she needed to find him, she wasn't exactly sure where to go and what he might be doing at that point in time. She had several free hours before she needed to be home so that wasn't an issue. The issue was finding where she needed to go!

Finally she found what appeared to be the groundskeeper's hut and strode up to it, smoothing a strand of rogue blonde hair out of her face. She looked down at her black dress and tugged it into place. One must be presentable when encountering someone you needed something from, right? Knocking on the door, Eleanor called out, "Mr. Wild? Are you home?"