[ Five has never been a stranger to nightmares, even when he's awake, but they've been more visceral lately. When he wakes up in a panic one night, it takes him ten minutes to come back to reality and accept that he isn't still in the apocalypse. The air is clean and nothing is burning, people are alive, and somehow being on a pirate ship isn't an insane delusion.
He's not afraid to go back to sleep and face what seemed to be the more likely truth, but he's unsettled enough that he decides to walk the ship in search of anything that might serve as a distraction from his memories.
Generally it doesn't smell great when you're traveling among pirates. Especially after the day he spent being cursed by a fish, of all things; another nonsensical experience that made him extremely sensitive to their odors that rivaled those of rotting bodies and spoiled food in those early months of the apocalypse. So when he catches a whiff of pleasant-smelling herbs, he follows it and is surprised when it leads him to Emilia.
Knowing how their last encounter went, he should leave her be. But the sight of a cauldron was common those months he lived with Hermione. He didn't know they had that in common.
Eventually he's curious enough that he speaks up. ]
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He's not afraid to go back to sleep and face what seemed to be the more likely truth, but he's unsettled enough that he decides to walk the ship in search of anything that might serve as a distraction from his memories.
Generally it doesn't smell great when you're traveling among pirates. Especially after the day he spent being cursed by a fish, of all things; another nonsensical experience that made him extremely sensitive to their odors that rivaled those of rotting bodies and spoiled food in those early months of the apocalypse. So when he catches a whiff of pleasant-smelling herbs, he follows it and is surprised when it leads him to Emilia.
Knowing how their last encounter went, he should leave her be. But the sight of a cauldron was common those months he lived with Hermione. He didn't know they had that in common.
Eventually he's curious enough that he speaks up. ]
You're making potions?