— curfew.
@crcwan:
just as he turns the corner, he freezes mid-step the second he comes to find the groundskeeper with their back toward him. the ravenclaw upper year blinks twice before slowly stepping back around the corner. furrowing his brows, he glances over at rowan—his companion for the evening—and blinks again. he then proceeds to peer back around the corner, only popping his head out just a smidge to see if the groundskeeper is still there—and they are. with that affirmation, he nods his head to himself and turns to the girl behind him.
“we should probably head back and go another way.” he deadpans without much explanation. “an unforeseen circumstance has arose and i think it’s in our best interest if we don’t go into that hallway right now.” he continues on as calmly as possible while trying to think of another way to reach the greenhouse within the next hour. without saying much else, he fishes his journal out of his knapsack and flips it open to the page with the campus grounds roughly sketched out—he also plucks his wand out from behind his ear just in case he has to obliviate the groundskeeper.
he scans the page for a moment as he attempts to decide their best next course of action. “there’s another passage over here..” he trails off to himself while pointing to the page. “if we go here and then exit through that hall into there..” he hums before glancing over to the girl. “but that will take too long..” he huffs before glancing back toward the hall they were supposed to go down. “ that was the fastest route, but now we can’t take it because the groundskeeper is there.” he mentions. “or we just have to wait for them to leave?” he pauses before looking over to the girl. “hey. rowan, what do you think?”