[Sept 3rd- After Dinner] Star Light, Star Bright

"Lost in thought or just lost?" Dmitry, unable to find anything to occupy his time before school officially started, decided he would walk the grounds and let his own mind wander. He had seen Lili laying in the grass on the hill said and thought it would be a nice chance to get to talk to her. He walked up along side her and with a rather clumsy appearance laid down beside her.

"I know, we seem to go in long spurts with out seeing each other. How have you been?" he looked over at Raven and smiled watching the big mountain of fur roll over against Lili belly up and paws out. "How about you Raven, you doing all right here at the school, All the first years trying to feed you from the tables? or do they do you the service of setting a place for like I did?"

When she answered him he could hear the tone in her voice. Something was off, He knew they had been apart far more then together this past summer. "is everything okay?" he asked, if there was anything wrong he wanted to know now rather then later as the school year went on. Was she upset at him, how much they hadn't done, how they hadn't spent time together? "is there anything you want to talk about?"

Dmitry cocked his had when Raven seemed almost to protest that with Lili's answer but Dmitry let that go for now. "If that isn't a loaded answer I don't know what is. You sound like you've never been given a chance at your own future. What have you come up with so far? what's stopped you from thing about this kind of thing before." he bent down and sat next to her. "You might be of age in our world but that only means that you can freely due magic with out being 'caught'. You still have at least another year after this one if you want it, then there is college. I'm sure you can also talk with your head of house if you need any help in finding a direction."

He made himself comfortable next to her. "It's not like you have to start earning a living right off the bat. you can always take sometime and travel the world, then come back. Hell I'll go with you we can both see the world." He looked at Raven "and of course you'll be coming too"

"Hey, hey, hey, just take a deep breath and slow down a bit. No one is holding a gun to your head and telling you to pick a path now. you still have time. you have all the time in the world to figure out what you want to do or be. I have an uncle in Brussels, Uncle Kalus. The man swears when he grows up he wants to be a hippogryph. Then man is 87, he's done a lot, seen alot, still doesn't know what he wants to do. Then you take my cousin Gabriele, She's know what she wants to do since day 1, She's always wanted to be a Healer, go to work for St. Mungos and the like. She's only 13. We don't have many healers in the family, but she wants to be one so bad she curtailed her studies at Durmstrang around it. And then ya take me, almost all my life I've wanted to be on the professional dueling circuit, but then I go and meet you and see there's life beyond the tip of the wand. Are our lives complex? Yes! Do they have to stay that way? hopefully not."

He shifted so he could sit side by side with her and put his arm around her. "I know you grew up thinking you where a muggel, so maybe the concept of how long we really can live might seem a little far fetched. The former head master of this school Albus Dumbledore was 115 when he met his end prior to the battle of hogwarts. The current Head Mistress Professor McGonagall I'm sure is up there in her years but still going strong. We have all the time in the world to figure that question out. when you do just make sure it's something you want."