on his name, being brought back out

[herbologizing]

...it's better than all the ones about snakes, I reckon.

This is more than you ever did with me before, though, and I have to wonder what you've got planned.

Nothing yet?

I-I don't know how to feel about that.

Comments

[hydrokhoos]

Maybe your writer's just very, very choosy.

[herbologizing]

Choosy about...what?

[hydrokhoos]

About what to do with you, sweetie.

[herbologizing]

I hope it's a good choosy, and not a bad one. I've never been very choosy, so maybe I just don't get it.

[hydrokhoos]

Maybe you could stand to be. It can't hurt to be a little demanding once in a while.

[herbologizing]

But I wouldn't know what to demand of her. She's never really done anything with me before.

To me? With me, either way.

[hydrokhoos]

Well, what do you want to do? Where do you want to go?

[herbologizing]

Uh...I haven't really gotten a proper look around at this point. I don't know, maybe somewhere with my friends? But not...not where I couldn't use magic, a-and not something...horrible, I guess?

[hydrokhoos]

See? That's a start, right? And it gives her a place to start looking.

[herbologizing]

Y-Yeah...but what if she doesn't really care? Something about a "premise" being interesting, it doesn't matter.

I guess...just as long as I can have my magic, then, I'll be fine.

[hydrokhoos]

Well, sometimes they won't, of course, but that doesn't mean you should just lie down and take it. Not in that context, anyway. It's not as if she's Zeus, after all.

[herbologizing]

[Pause. That's an odd thing to say.]

But it's not really like I can do anything. I mean, I'm just...even if I argue, it's not going to do anything.

It's a bit strange in the end, though, because it's almost like she's arguing with herself.

[hydrokhoos]

[ welcome to conversation with ganymede, neville. ]

It doesn't really matter that it won't. You should still make your feelings known about things, don't you think?

[herbologizing]

[Neville was never good at star-stuff, though he'd recognize the name if given long enough.

Maybe.]

I just did, though, didn't I? To you, I mean. Just...as long as I have my magic, I'll be all right. And...and if any of my friends aren't there, I'll have to make new ones.

[That's a hard thing for Neville to do.]

[hydrokhoos]

Yes, you did, and you did so very well. Just keep it up, okay? [ .. tweaks his nose. he can't resist, okay, neville's a cutie. ] You'll do fine, sweetie.

[herbologizing]

[WHOA A STRANGER JUST

WHAT DO NEVILLE

WHAT

DO?]

U-Uh...thanks. And my name's Neville. Not...not sweetie.

[hydrokhoos]

Oh, of course, my apologies, Mr. Neville. You can call me Ganymede.

[herbologizing]

[IF HE WASN'T TALKING TO A WIZARD that name may have merited some sort of, you know, eyebrow raise, scoff, questioning...but as it is, wizards and witches have their own interesting names, so it's not totally out of place.

Though it sounds kind of familiar, maybe. If he thought long enough. Maybe.]

Is that your last name? Mine's Longbottom.

[no butt jokes :(]

[hydrokhoos]

No, that's my given name. I lived a long time ago in a place where I didn't really need a surname.

[ an amused tilt of his head. ]

You have a fun name, though. 'Neville Longbottom'.

[herbologizing]

So...does that mean your dead?

You don't--don't look like a ghost.

[hydrokhoos]

Don't be silly. Did I feel dead? Zeus kidnapped me, so I'm immortal.

[herbologizing]

[WHAT]

You mean...like, uh...the god Zeus? The Greek leader of all of them?

B-But...

[hydrokhoos]

That's the one. He was pretty terrifying at first.

[herbologizing]

Wait...isn't Ganymede a group of stars? A constellation?

[lavandulas]

Sometimes nothing is better than something.