Caldwell did have some faith in destiny, he had faith in love and romance, he just wasn’t sure it would ever find him. He was sure he would watch many other people love and lose each other long before he ever found someone who was willing to be as patient as he would need someone to be with him. But the world was fast-paced and Caldwell needed time, which seemed to be the one thing a lot of people were lacking, something he had accepted a while ago but had to remind himself of often. He was lucky to find any company at all, somehow he’d adopted a sort of unapproachable aura, where people believed he didn’t want to talk to anyone just because he sometimes struggled to. So Willow’s company, even if perhaps he wouldn’t have chosen it, was welcomed. Plants were his more regular companions and he had to admit- though not aloud, he wouldn’t like to hurt any of the other’s- that the Bouncing Bulbs were his favourite. They lashed out occasionally and were a troublesome bunch but when he cradled them, and they felt safe, they were pleasant little things- purple too, his favourite colour. “I’m being honest.” He quipped back, the slight hint of a smile catching the corners of his mouth as he looked about the young bulbs with a keen eye. “Quidditch team? I have two, really, one from each side of the family: Woollongong Warriors from my father, and Montrose Magpies from my mother. Both rather good teams, which is why I suppose I support them. Plus, the Magpies have a nice crest.”
As it could have been said, Willow didn’t have faith in any of the sort. Even if fate played a role in her life, she knew it had left her to burn in the striking flames of the world she’d set fire to. Not that she had much belief in the world to begin with, but part of her doubted such a thing could be allowed if there were some intervening factor, be it fate or destiny or the like. Love on the other hand, was always something a breath away. She didn’t deny love, but rather, rejected it in the traditional sense. Where she loved others, she didn’t for their beings but for what they gave her in sating her desire to ruin and ravage. Emotion, for Will, was some far away thing --- it was small and incandescent in the sky, completely foreign to her, and for that, she didn’t mourn the loss ( not that she mourned at all ). “Well then, I simply won’t hear it,” she shot back, not missing the barest quirk in his lips. How easy it was to make room for herself in him, who otherwise seemed so unapproachable as he assumed himself to be. “Good teams, those. Oh, and a man of aesthetic, are we? You get more interesting with every breath, Mister Moore,” she paused to settle the wiggling flash of purple in her hands to the empty space it had previously come from, the first plot filled as she moved in the dirt to further steady it, “Okay, next question. What’s your favorite novel?”