"Where's your home?"
Kayson asked.
"In a small town in northeastern England. I think it's called... Arnic. There's a castle there, and that's my home," Maple Luo answered.
"Oh, I know that castle. The one that looks a lot like Hogwarts, right?" Kayson raised an eyebrow.
"That's right, but Apparition is prohibited there," Maple Luo reminded him.
"You only need to tell me whether I should send you into the town or within the castle grounds."
"The lawn behind the castle will do. I'm a little too tired," Maple Luo said.
"No problem." As Kayson spoke, he enveloped her in an Enderman field, then teleported to the lawn behind Arnic Castle.
Not far away, a couple in their thirties was trying to comfort a three- or four-year-old boy, who kept wiping away tears and sniffling.
"Your sister isn't dead. She's just staying at Hogwarts over the holidays. She even wrote you a letter. She'll come back next year, all right?"
"You just need to be good at home and quietly wait for your sister to come back, okay?"
The couple took turns coaxing him, but it would have been better if they had not. The moment they did, the boy abandoned his quiet sobbing and burst into loud wails.
"That's your little brother?" Kayson asked quietly.
"Obviously." Maple Luo was about to walk over and surprise her parents and brother when she heard her father say something utterly absurd.
"If you keep crying, I'll invite Professor Kayson over and have him eat you!"
The air fell silent in an instant. The little boy had been successfully frightened by those words, and it was easy to tell what kind of unfathomable... education the Greens had previously given him.
Maple Luo, who had been about to walk toward her family, froze as