TOMB AND GLOOM AND DETOUR FROM THE MISSION AT HAND;
[ Mother, is that you?
There are times when Hermione wishes she did not have the talisman around her neck, that lets her understand what others say. The voice of the the woman (dead? alive? she does not know, she cannot tell) will haunt her for a very long time, and perhaps she can understand now why Harry was so traumatised by the Inferi.
She sucks a breath in through her teeth and stands, frozen in her spot, looking at the fettered woman, at the chains holding her in place, her stomach in knots. It slips out, without Hermione noticing if anyone else has made it to center of the maze and stands in the room with her: ] Who's done this to you?
[ And the words come from the woman, eventually, giving Hermione something she apparently desperately needed: a cause. ] How can I undo these chains? You can't - I won't leave you here alone...
[ And she will try to find the key in the pool, first. Fills her waterskin with water, just in case, then aims her wand and summons light to the tip of it, to divine if she can see anything. ]
locked to Vi;
[ Mother, is that you?
There are times when Hermione wishes she did not have the talisman around her neck, that lets her understand what others say. The voice of the the woman (dead? alive? she does not know, she cannot tell) will haunt her for a very long time, and perhaps she can understand now why Harry was so traumatised by the Inferi.
She sucks a breath in through her teeth and stands, frozen in her spot, looking at the fettered woman, at the chains holding her in place, her stomach in knots. It slips out, without Hermione noticing if anyone else has made it to center of the maze and stands in the room with her: ] Who's done this to you?
[ And the words come from the woman, eventually, giving Hermione something she apparently desperately needed: a cause. ] How can I undo these chains? You can't - I won't leave you here alone...
[ And she will try to find the key in the pool, first. Fills her waterskin with water, just in case, then aims her wand and summons light to the tip of it, to divine if she can see anything. ]