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It floats down to put its face near the ground and look for interesting things this might be referring to!
"Can you be here with the radio, and me and Professor Dumbledore will go to the castle, and you will not go to the castle?"
"Not the rock. The place. The castle is over there, it's not here. You stay where you are now, and don't go to the castle, and me and Professor Dumbledore do go to the castle."
Cora definitely doesn't understand all this, but what it might understand is something it is not happy about. Khhhhhliohhhh. It presses the rock into the sponge for Advanced Squishing.
"You wanna hang out more, that makes sense. I'll come back tomorrow, okay? When the sun is up again."
"When the sun," point, "comes up, over there," point, "it will be tomorrow! And I'll come over in the morning. While the sun is... about... there."
Cleo will start shuffling back toward the castle after a bit. Maybe Cora understood!
No no no no wait wait -
Khhhhliiohhhh - kh . . . Ssssuhn uhhhpinnng, suhhn dhh. Sunnnn dahhhiininnng, suhhhhhn uhhhhpinnng, Khhhhhh - Khliohhhh?
"The sun is down-ing now. It'll be down and dark for a while. Then it will come up. And then when it's up that high," point, "then we can hang out again, okay? Then Cleo will come out of the castle."
Cora's kind of afraid of this, because the last time this happened it lost Cleo for such a long time, so . . . handspress? In case that happens again?
Eventually Professor Dumbledore puts a hand on Cleo's shoulder and she turns to go with him into the castle.
Cora doesn't try to follow, this time. It takes the sponge out of its sleeve to squish squish squish squish and dumps the ?here? back out onto the ground. The goodsounds get louder and softer as it moves closer and farther from the radio; that's interesting enough to occupy it for a short while, and of course the sings themselves are nice and not boring to listen to.
If it didn't know Cleo was coming back, it would think when-the-sun-is-over-there was sooner than it expected, but because it thinks it does know that it instead feels like a VERY long time. It decides to go look for the sun and see if it can carry it to the right spot, but the sun isn't in the area where the spell that tells it where it belongs is telling Cora that it belongs. . . . Hm, last it knew, the sun was down, but sometimes things move around when it's not looking at them. Could the sun be hiding Very Up? Also does Cora belong Very Up or is that not allowed.
Though there are other things preventing it.
Hhhhhrrrrrnnnnnnnfffffff. ("So hey, about those foods . . .")