’Would you?’ Cad asked his eyes narrowing at the other boy, watching him in the way that a bird watches a cat who might eat it at any moment. His whole frame had crumpeled in on itself, gone was the son of the Selwynn patriarch, the broad man that Cad usually took after physically. In his place was a boy who seemed coiled like a spring, but eager to take up as little space on the ground he stood upon as was physically possible.

’Would you tell me if you did?’ Cad asked, his hand gripping at the broken ends of his wand. It was useless now, but he didn’t feel right now that he was wasn’t armed. Cad could feel the hairs on the back of his neck were standing on edge, what the hell had this guy done to him? It was almost certainly some sort of spell the young man had cast on him behind his back. After all, Cad didn’t know what he’d done to get into detention in the first place.

When the other boy motioned towards the mess of chairs, not obstructing the door way Cad complied, but moved in such a way as to make sure his back was never to the other student – he wouldn’t make the same mistake twice. ’How did you end up in detention?’ he asked, his curiosity getting the better of him and after all – forewarned was forearmed as far the other student was concerned.

Clue Leverett