Upset Stomach.

Sitting inside the grey fog Loki looked down at the item in his hand.

The Time Turner.

It shimmered dully under the crimson light of the stars all around the grey fog but that wasn't what captured Loki's attention the most, neither were the complex runes drawn all around it that glowed under his spirituality nor the intricate craftsmanship that resembled his own but looked even more polished and advanced.

The one thing that caught his attention was the sense of familiarity that emerged from the small sand granules inside the hour glace.

'Is it even sand?'

Loki felt like the materials inside the hourglass were calling out to him, like they were meant to be a part of him but he didn't know where they were missing from.

It felt like someone had stolen a part of his body and trapped it in a clever way.

'Why does it feel like this?'

'Why does it feel so familiar?'

Tossing away the Time Turner into the junk pile that had collected in the Sefirah Caslte Loki left and returned to his dorm room.

'I'm hungry. To the Great Hall, it is then.' Loki nodded and stood up after setting his clothes right.

He walked along with Daphne, Tracy and Astoria to the Great Hall, talking about random things like how they felt they'd done their exams.

The Great Hall was drowned in Green and Silver decorations and all the Slytherin walked along with pride. Some even turned to congratulate Loki because it was his play that had caused several teachers to give them points.

Loki brushed them away since he knew they would turn on him at the drop of a hat, attacking like hungry wolves fighting for bones to lick him clean.

With grace and practised manners Loki started eating at the table.

That was when everyone heard a sharp *clink* that caused them to look at the teacher's table.

Dumbledore slowly stood up and caused a frown to appear on the Slytherin's faces.

'Is he going to add more points to Gryffindor again?' students from all the houses thought.

And although Gryffindor hadn't won any of the times in the last two years, everyone felt rather annoyed when they would be handed out brownie points and suddenly overtake everyone else in the race.

"Another year has passed and might I say it has been quite educating for all of us."

A few students snorted at the joke but most stayed frowning.

"I have a short announcement to make and I hope all of you pay close attention to it."

Even the professors looked at Dumbledore with rapt attention. They all wondered what the announcement was going to be about, and how they hadn't been informed about it before.

'Is he really here to dish out more points again?'

"I only have to say a few simple words, here it goes as follows," Dumbledore paused and looked at everyone with a serious expression, and just as everyone was starting to get tense about what he was going to say when he adjusted a monocle that suddenly appeared over his right eye before blurting out-

"Mr. Error is the greatest and he is coming back!!"

Most of the student populous stumbled as their tense muscles were suddenly loosened, and multiple questions began to pop up in the students' minds.

'Mr. Error? Who's that?'

'Is Mr. Error someone famous in the field of magic? Why haven't I ever heard of him before if he is so highly praised by the Headmaster?'

The teachers meanwhile all had different reactions.

'What?' Snape thought, meeting eyes with the other professors to see if they knew anything about all of this but they were just as confused as he was.

While McGonagall was just short of holding her head and *sighing*.

'How long will he keep using that stupid mirror?'

"I'm sure Mr. Error is a nice gentleman to talk to if the headmaster thinks he is the greatest. I would love to meet him. Where did he graduate from? Hogwarts? Is he our senior? He would be very old then." Astoria rambled and concluded for everyone else on the table while speaking her mind.

Meanwhile, beside her, Loki felt like he was about to shit bricks.

His stomach had cramped and his fingers were trembling.

'It's over!'

'He's got me!'

'He knows who I am!'

"Are you alright Loki?" Astoria asked from across the table, snapping Loki out of his daze.

He looked at the girl with hollow eyes but then snapped out of his thoughts when he caught a glimpse of her.

"Ah! I am fine Tory. I was just wondering what the Headmaster meant is all." Loki nodded perfunctorily and continued to eat his food even if his stomach said otherwise.

For the rest of the meal, Loki kept his head bowed down and pretended that nothing was going on in his mind while stuffing himself with food and cracking the odd joke here and there.

Coming back to his room, Loki immediately did the ritual for the Sefirah Castle and slipped above the Grey Fog.

"What in the world!!?"

Loki's hands trembled as he stared blankly at the sea of fog around him.

"Does 'He' know?"

Loki closed his eyes and recalled Dumbledore's words clearly-

"Mr. Error is the greatest and he is coming back!!"

'What did he mean by this?'

'Why is he pledging allegiance to me?'

'Did I do something to him?'

'Reverse psychology?'

'Am I going to do something for him in the future?'

Seeing himself lose control of his questions Loki put a pause to his thoughts and took several deep breaths in as he recalled every detail of the scene when Dumbledore spoke those words to see if he could glean something he had previously missed.

'He only said his speech when the Great Hall was filled with students and not at the start of the meal like all announcements are usually done…'

'So he wanted all the students to hear it from him?'

'But wouldn't they have spread the news among each other anyway?'

'Could it just be a coincidence? Maybe he forgot that he had to announce something but then he remembered mid-way through lunch so he announced then?'

'No. He was too serious for that. He couldn't have forgotten, at least not when he's from the spectator pathway.'

Loki frowned hard as his brows furrowed in concentration.

'What does this mean?'

'He shouldn't know about Mr. Error in any other way other than when he met me in the tunnel along with 'Her'.'

'Maybe there's some record of me that he found when I spent time with the founders?'

'But I'm pretty sure he'd have already found such records before I showed up in front of him if they existed at all.'

'So it shouldn't be any new historical documents.'

'Even if it were, why did he announce it in such a way? Like he was my fan?'

'I'm quite sure any wizard with even a little bit of power will start to search for information about Mr. Error after his casual fanboying words in the Great Hall.'

'Was his aim to figure out who Mr. Error is that way? Try and see if anyone else learns about me?'

'No that feels a little convoluted. He wouldn't have to reveal he was a fan of mine in the Great Hall if that was the case, he could've just reached out to them through more secret channels.'

"*Sigh* I can't think of anything that fits the scenario properly."

'...maybe he just lost a bet or something and had to say those words?'

'Who'd even make a bet with him?'

Loki shook his head and left the Sefirah Castle to pack his trunk and prepare for leaving Hogwarts.

'This place…why does it only get worse each year!?'

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