The look spoke volumes. Ben's brow furrowed with concern. He wasn't sure it was his place to ask, but there was clearly something there that someone ought to ask about. Should he ask? Were they friends? This was a relationship that was hard to define; not anything covered in etiquette class back at Hogwarts. At any rate, though, it seemed unlikely that she wanted to discuss it here at the market, and there wasn't any place more private that he could invite her to continue the conversation. They didn't have any excuse for their acquaintance, so it might have gotten them into a spot of trouble to just be seen walking together, much less going anywhere even remotely private. On the other hand (a part of him thought rather darkly), it couldn't possibly do any more damage to walk somewhere with Dionisia during the middle of the morning than Melody had already done leaving a party arm in arm with Beckett Longbottom.

"Eventful, yeah," he echoed, because although his Christmas had been fine and peaceable the events of New Year's Eve had by now entirely overshadowed it in his mind, which left him wanting to make the same face that she just had. "It's... going to be an interesting year."

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