Alone

Roul sat in the corner of the staff room, staring quietly at the fire, a letter from his wife - no ex wife - still sitting deftly in his hand. He did not wish to look at her words again, but time and time again he kept glancing at them.

And they managed to create a new wound every time he did. He had every as much right to see them as she did - more so. He did not understand...

He supposed he had never been as approachable as Nadine once had been. He had never known how to express himself to the children but...

He had tried - more than he sometimes thought he could say for Nadine.

Sighing he crinkled the paper and fed it to the flames watching them burn and wishing the problem would disappear as easily as the paper did.

Katryna sighed as she opened the door to the staff room. Her mind was full of thoughts about starting half way through the semester at this wonderous school. As she entered the staff room she caught sight of a man reading a letter. Katryna had always prided herself on being able to read the moods of others just by looking at them and to her it was blatantly obvious that the man was thoroughly depressed. Eager to meet another member of the staff but not wishing to intrude on his privacy, Katryna walked over to the sofa opposite him and took a seat. She tried to stay quiet by pulling a book from her bag and would occasionally glance at the man from over the top of her book. Katryna hoped that she hadn't disturbed him or his thoughts and let her own trail off as she waited for the man to notice her and the inevitble out burst at being disturbed that was bound to follow.

Roul barely noticed the woman appear at first. He was too lost in his own thought, dwelling on what he had lost.

No what he was going to get back; but after a long moment, once the flames had done there job and not a drop of the paper remained he moved his melancholy gaze back up to the woman and her book.

"Hello," he said softly after a moment. He frowned slightly as he did not recognize the face of the woman, "Are you knew to the school?"

Scala made her way to the staff room, smriking as she entered. Her light violet eyes scanning the room. She smiled at the current Professor and Healer. She flung her long red hair to her right side and with a snap of her finger, she summond a house elf and orderd a coffee, with a hint of blood. it came into her hand quickly and she sat down acroos from the others.

"Hello," She said softly to them both.