Raine wished her classmate goodnight as he left her at the restaurant balcony. She kept an eye on his retreating back, contemplating the words they had exchanged and the unexpectedly agreeable nature of Vulpes Connor. Odd. Though if Bainsadottir was going to date a Slytherin student, better him than any of the others.
A sound interrupted her thoughts as some waiters began pulling out chairs, setting them upside down on top of the table. Raine glanced at them and then over the balustrade at the ocean. She was going to be
exhausted when they went surfing tomorrow if she didn't get any sleep soon. The witch moved to turn away, heading in the same direction as her companion but at a much slower and more thoughtful pace. One of the waiters paused in his sweeping to nod at her:
"´alal-khair, Miss." Mechanically, Raine stopped to return the gesture and then, with a slight frown, reached into her breast pocket.
"Here," she handed her remaining cigarillos to the lanky man: "Smoke them or throw them for me, won't you?" A nonplussed look crossed his tan face but he accepted the pack unassumingly and Raine smiled: "
Shukran," she thanked him before leaving the restaurant for the lobby lifts.
Keeping the cigarrilos would only tempt her later. Death didn't scare Raine very much but she'd be damned if it caught up with her twenty years from now in the form of black lungs and a dusty cough.
End