<div class="floatleft">(https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/ploetzlichmeerjungfrau/images/e/e4/Phoebe-tonkin-at-cw-cbs-and-showtime-2013-summer-tca-party_1.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20140610190904&amp;path-prefix=de)</div><strong>NAME:</strong>Valerie Beaumont<br/><strong>WEARING:</strong>Suit like clothing with a long grey coat, describable as militaristic in design<br/><strong>Blood Status:</strong>Halfblood<br/><strong>Wand</strong>: Aspen, Dragon, 8<br/><strong>House/Year</strong>: (Unknown house, missed the event I think) 1st year<br/><strong>Date</strong>: September 29th<br/><strong>Time/Day:</strong>Evening<br/><strong>LOCATION:</strong>Bonefire, lakeside<br/><strong>CONTENT:</strong>Confrontational<br/><strong>TAGGING:</strong>GM Event<br/><hr/><br/>Not what she expected, before she had been in the right. Regardless of her posturing she drew a wand on a student, that was and still is a foolish decision. Instead of realizing that she just deflected. Now it is turned back at her. If she continues it is only out of pride and not in the defense of another, if she doesn't she defies everything she has learned at this point. This effectively makes it that any name she might gain from a fight is a shadow of what it could have been. In short she got to greedy.<br/><br/>Besides that her chances at a fight are non existent at this point, prior to it didn't matter if she won or lost. Now the only benefit is in victory, being the one who stood up to this bitch and gave her, her just desserts wouldn't be horrible but it is clear now that a victory is impossible maybe that's what madame meant on her goodbye party. 'There are many lessons I can't teach you because I love you and I want to see you succeed and more importantly survive. These lessons hurt the most and if you are smart, and you are that, it will hurt on the inside not the outside.'<br/><br/>Valerie is left with one option, she hates herself for it as with an internal cringe she lowers her wand placing it back out of hand in its spot without breaking eye contact. This next part she really is gonna hate, well not this next part but the one right after. This part is the only thing she has, that is that she is unarmed so the tables are turned back again. Any action she takes outside of words will be negative for her. "An apology from me? Very well, I'm sorry people who use slurs are allotted any respect, I'm sorry that someone with such a vile disposition made it to Prefect, and I'm sorry I had to abandon the Madames training so quickly. That's all of the apologies I have."<br/><br/>This is the part she is going to really hate. There isn't anything left for Valerie to say, she made her peace which Alyssa rejected, now she has made her last point. She could stay longer and bicker back and forth but that will just end up making her look bad and bitchy like Alyssa. Her stomach turned and twisted and her pride hurts as she turns around, leaving her back open like a target to Alyssa. Her teeth grit but her outwards appearance is level headed and cool. Granted that is taking all the willpower she has as she walks away at a casual pace to show she isn't afraid, she is just wounded. Heading roughly in the direction of Fergus keeping Alyssa's line of sight on him broken. Valerie's pride is certainly hurt, it's likely that she will not get the chance to duel her and win while they are in school, Alyssa is far more experienced. She will have to be smarter, and less rash for now on, and some will hopefully think more favorably of her. This is a starting point for her on her way to the top, it wasn't the jump she had hoped for but she made her stance known despite the crushing feeling of her ego taking a couple shots she feels good about what she did.<br/><br/>She wonders to herself as she walks away, doing her best to get Fergus away, does she know that the blood that makes her think she is so special becomes more diluted every generation? Does she find the eventuality of either inbreeding to the point of mutation or interbreeding with muggles and half-bloods more preferable? Is she afraid of when their ivory towers lie in ruin? She should be, because when that time comes that will be when Valerie will seize her power.<br/><br/>=Valerie leaves the scene guiding Fergus away (if he wants to) so long as she isn't stopped=<br/>