CoMC- Lesson One- Unicorns

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He felt as if his chest was going to implode and his legs give out from under him. But when he heard the Slytherin girl tell the Ravenclaw, Elijah, to go kill himself, anger poured back into him and he straightened himself to his full height again. He was still leaning heavily on Rhye for support, but he didn't care.

"Would you really take such measures to assert yourself that you would stoop that low?" he snarled, knowing that Antony had already taken care of damage control but too angry to not put in his own two cents.

"Suicide, really, that's what you prod him with?" Elijah hadn't really defended him--Benedict guessed he was more neutral than anything--but he still felt compelled to help the guy out. "Of all the juvenile, inappropriate, wrong things you could choose to use against him, you use suicide?" He scoffed, looking her up and down. "People like you make me sick. I can't believe that you'd really drop yourself to that level. Now I don't like Slytherins, but even I know that they're above that."

Her other comments had been juvenile and delivered very poorly, but he didn't touch on them. He'd save his scorn for those for another time. For now, though, he felt his left knee give and he clutched Rhye's shoulder tighter. He was thankful when Ophelia dragged the other boy away.

With a dismissive glance at Astoria, he pushed his friend in the direction of Hogwarts. "I'm fine, I don't need a Healer. It was just a...there's nothing a Healer can do for me," he quickly changed his course, saving himself from having to lie. He was telling the truth with that; there was nothing to be done for him, save the surgery that was far from his reach. But Rhye didn't have to know that. No one did.

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For once, Elijah didn't offer any scathing remarks about Ophelia's bossy nature as she roughly grabbed his arm and led him out. He was angry enough at the Slytherin to talk to nonchalantly about something so serious as suicide, and as Nathan and Rhye left as well there was nothing for him to say.

As much as he loathed the headstrong, imbecilic Gryffindor, he had voiced his anger in a way that Elijah could not without losing his temper completely. It seemed as though brainless morons did come in handy every once and a while.

"I wonder what's her problem?" he growled to Ophelia as they walked away, once they were out of earshot of the others. "Sytherins are usually more...sophisticated than that. And to think she could have been sorted into Ravenclaw! I'd be horrified to have her in my house. Did you see Antony cringe when she spoke?"

Despite himself, he allowed a slight snicker to pass his lips. "That boy is insufferable, but at least he knows where his battles lie." He'd borne witness to his and Nathan's first fight, once that had ended less...dramatically than this one but with equally disastrous consequences. At least he had the sense to not start fights where they did not need to be started.