Crickets first day at Hogwarts was going excellent, she hadn't seen her sister since the Sorting Ceremony but the first day of classes had kept her busy and preoccupied. The school was just incredible. The pictures that moved & talked, the staircases that also moved. It was enough to make her head spin though she kept it firmly in place. 

Her common room was something of her dreams, magical plants of every kind filled the corners of the yellow themed rooms. If only her mother could see. Homesickness filled her already, perhaps she could sneak a few plants back home to show them.

All morning she had been shuffled around from class to class with her fellow first mates but lunch time had finally arrived and Cricket had some time to herself. Not one to skip lunch, she took a sandwhich and couple pieces of fruit in her bag and set off through the front doors. With no goal in particular she allowed her feet to guide the way, munching on an apple as she wandered. 

Moving branches caught her eye and she wandered over to a large tree. Did it... did it just swat a bird? Curiously, Cricket tossed what was left of her apple at the trees lower branches and sure enough it swatted the apple right back at her. "Whoa!" a grin stretched across her pale face as she searched the ground for another projectile.