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"I figured it out" Cedric had told Kathy on one random school day.

"You figures it out?" She repeated in shock, "as in you figured out what to do with egg?"

Cedric grinned with pride and gestured for her to follow him, she huffed in annoyance before packing up her knitting and her notebooks.

She followed Cedric until he told her to wait and glanced both ways.

"Is this the part where you kill me? Because nobody's around..."

"Shut up" Cedric scoffed at the silly witch, he pulled out a sheet of paper before handing it over to her.

"Come seek us where our—" she began to read out but he placed his hand over her mouth to shut her up.

"I've given you a copy, don't tell anyone or let anyone see and please help me solve the song" Cedric has practically begged her with his puppy dog eyes and his leaning stance.

"Fine" she caved and he whooped before excusing himself, because he had 'stuff' to do.

Sometimes Kathy wondered if he only used her for free clothes and her wits.

She glanced over the paper and groaned, it would mean a trip to the library indefinitely.

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Kathy was scowling you herself as she was flipping pages from left to right, just trying to find the missing piece of the puzzle.

But, she wasn't in her right mind.

She never really was when her friends broke apart, as they were her friends and she loved to spend happy times together.

That, and Charlotte was still avoiding the group like every time that Cedric and Penny argued.

Kathy huffed our loud and slammed her head into the books, initially giving up.

"Are you alright?" She heard a familiar Scottish accent say, she tilted her head to see her brother looking down with worried eyes.

She inwardly groaned and sat up in the library seat.

"Yeah, just another argument between Penny and Cedric" she waved off.

"And Charlotte's avoiding the tension?" He guessed, but it was obviously more of a statement.

"Yep, and now Cedric expects me to crack this for the next tournament" she whined our as she glanced over the paper.

The chair beside her was pulled back and he sat down, not so gracefully.

"I am sorry, you know" he stated as he looked over his younger sister's distressed figure.

"I know" she yawned out, covering her mouth as she did as her eyes watered slightly from the yawn.

"I'll help you" Oliver offered as he took the paper from under her half-awake body.

"Really?" She was flabbergasted that her brother was here in a library, and offering to help her. "Wait, are you lost? This is a li-br-ary"

Her brother scoffed at her playfully before taking her quilt out from her ink pot, "seems like it's underwater"

"I gathered that much" she sassily states as she glared at him, he nudged her with a groan.

"What's the treasures that they've stolen?" He asked his sister.

"My guess is that they need to breathe under water for an hour to look for whatever the treasure is" she explained, and her eyes widened with realisation. "I know where the task is going to be set!"

She jumped up and gathered all of her things so she could run off to find Cedric, after she packed her bag she kissed her brothers cheek before running out of the library.

Leaving the other Wood sat and confused in the library.