Seleana finished her meal quickly and decided that she was bored; bored with food as she often was which was why he gran said she so skinny. She didn't know why but the very effort of eating seemed tedious to her; bite, chew, chew, chew then swallow and repeat. Thinking about it made Seleana giggle because she could still see her mum's face when she'd told her that last year. So better to fill her time with something more interesting an difficult than eating she picked up her spoon an fork an began practicing what her granda called lacing.

Lacing involved the twirling of object from bottom to top then top to bottom an passing them between her fingers like little cheerleader batons. She'd seen her granda doing it one day when she was six an had tried to do it herself only to fail in result an satisfaction. She then asked her granda to show her how he performed such a clever trick an was delighted when he did. It quickly became her favorite game to play with her granda and a quiet way to pass the time so her gran didn't scold her.

Such warm memories made her smile as she spun the two flashing pieces of silverware through her fingers in a blur. She added a difficulty level to make things interesting by passing them simultaneously to opposing hands then back again. She put both hands beneath the table so people wouldn't stare because she didn't want them to think she was just showing off. She used to fail when she couldn't see her fingers but in the past year she'd gotten so good at lacing that she an her granda could now pass objects back an forth to each other.

She fumbled an dropped the spoon clattering to the floor beneath the table because she'd allowed herself to be distracted by laughter coming from the Slytherin table. She was a bit annoyed that she'd allowed it to happen, her granda could do it while carrying on a conversation with her gran even though she always looked at him with disapproval. Her granda had told her the secret to lacing wasn't that it was simply a clever trick but a method to exercise the fingers and improve suppleness of the type that had made him a champion Duello in his youth.

Seleana didn't want to be a champion to please herself but to make her grans an parents proud of her. Seleana didn't actually care about power but about family an their pride.