POV Gabrielle Delacour
Gabrielle kept looking around for Sora, but she couldn't find him anywhere. The girl wanted to surprise him, so she didn't warn him in that one letter that she would be visiting Hogwarts as well. A flight in a carriage, a short walk under the gray, rainy sky in an enchanted robe, a walk through the dark castle with torches and bowls, a small performance in the Great Hall, distribution to the tables.
And now, sitting at the table of the boys with blue-bronze symbols on their robes, Gabrielle could not find the object of her interest anywhere. Fleur tried to keep her face straight so she couldn't turn her head, but Gabby could see that her sister was looking carefully for the brown-haired boy. The girls even studied the teacher's desk, well, what if? But he wasn't there either. But then Jacquasse, the coachman, ran into the hall and began to say something to Madame Maxime. The director frowned and said something to the local director.
They talked for a minute, and then Madame Maxime looked at Paul Dunois and with a single glance sent him off to deal with this strange case. And an interesting one. With him, by the way, went two natives, one all in black, the other with a wooden leg and a scarred face. Gabby didn't speak English very well, but her knowledge was enough to understand the new topic of discussion. About fifteen minutes later, Sora and Paul burst into the hall, laughing loudly, their arms around each other's shoulders, followed by the others, but few paid attention to them. Both boys were tall and handsome, except that the Japanese's hair was disheveled and his eyes burned with a kind of mad joy.
Gabrielle frowned: she wanted to surprise him here, and this restless one was running around somewhere, inexplicably, making noise — disturbing people, the rascal! But then she smiled, as soon as Paul said something to him, Sora immediately found her sisters and smiled again. After patting Dunois on the shoulder, Hoshino stopped abruptly, turned to the teachers, straightened up (forgetting the disheveled hair that made his serious appearance comical), put his right palm on his chest and bowed politely. First and foremost, it was to Madame Olympia Maxim, it was done so correctly and precisely to the woman that no one could even doubt it.
— My honor and admiration! — Madame Maxime nodded at him.
The boy changed his posture a little and bowed again, but only respectfully — to the others at the table. Then he took two steps back, turned and looked at his sisters, where the fire flared up again, and Sora was about to approach them when he stopped abruptly. His eyes were staring away from them. Gabrielle had never seen Sora's eyes before, she turned to follow his gaze and bumped into the Minhe twins. The girl frowned. Those two had only been added to the list of possible participants a week ago, and how they had managed to get in, Gabrielle had no way of knowing. They were looking at Sora the same way now, not with such an open expression, but rather scrutinizing him.
The long awaited meeting was ruined forever.
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I could see the change in Gabby's face from my reaction, but I couldn't help it. I'd been told that my mother and I were the last Hoshinos, and I was used to the idea. So it was a complete shock to see two obviously Japanese girls with light purple eyes and our "family" eye cut. What does that mean? What does that mean? And let them, coincidence, mutation, whatever, but I feel them, DAMN IT!!!! They're our blood, our relatives, but the connection is distant, strangely distant. I only felt Junko, so I can't really interpret my current feelings. Those translated Chinese women, Lan, there's a familiar power in them, like the warmth of a distant fire, but that's not it at all. These two are definitely Hoshino, and I just have to figure it all out!
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POV Zenzen and Ju Lan
Zenzen and Ju looked at each other. They had been together since birth, so the sisters had learned to use magic to communicate without words — just looks. The Lan sisters understood everything immediately because they had much more information at their disposal, and Mentor had specifically made them learn the details. The eyes of the Hoshino family were the most distinctive feature of the Hoshino family. Very specific shades, shapes, and cuts. Those who know them can't be mistaken.
What's that? Do the spirits favor them? Instead of a petal, a whole fire? There's something spiritually wrong with these girls, they taste different from Sora. Could it be that the guy is from the main branch of the clan and they are not? The Lan sisters had no way of knowing the details, but the obvious affinity and similarities were undeniable. Since these twins came with the French, it means that they lived in France, which means that the French branch of the family had failed. I must tell Mentor today!