For a second Sisse froze thinking that Alice had somehow found out about her almost drowning. Instead she was only speaking about the awful group outing to the park. Sisse still wasn’t over the whole thing. They should have just gone for an adult rather than Sloane almost dying. “I flew with Calla to help.” At least she had done something. At the time she had been too terrified to even set foot in the water, nor would she have allowed Ned to see her like that again - paralyzed with fear.

“Yeah Matthew was more awful then normal this year. He can finally do magic at home and he has been an awful tyrant.” Sisse pouted, glad she had made sure to notice if her older brother was in the common room with his cronies or not. “Henry wasn’t much better. He spent most of the summer with his friends at the park. Mother wasn’t keen on that for me though. She insisted I stay home and act the part of a proper lady,” As if embroidery and mending were all that a lady did. Ladies also socialized, but Sisse wouldn’t bring that up because then her mother would make remarks on Sloane and Calla and Sisse couldn’t handle the thought of her mother thinking anything less than Sisse did about them. Which was to say she wouldn’t hear a word against any of her friends so she simply didn’t bring them up.