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Is there? Have you got one to spare?

At least you get to be clever. I'm a socialite with a gambling problem who's frequently peeled off the table at the end of the night. Are you any good at cards? You could come to a party with me one evening.

It would probably gain me some attention if you wear one of "my corsets" if I do, I suppose.

But honestly, this feels like a bit of a mockery, considering everything.

Much obligied.

There's so much to 'everything' I don't know where to begin. We're going to have a very long tea and I'll fill you in as best I can.

Tomorrow, maybe? I'm going to try and figure out this communication crystal and see if I can find this man who helped me in the tunnels. Out of courtesy.

What man? Maybe I know where he is.

Lan of clan Wangji, he said his name was. Should be easy to find him, right? Not needle in a haystack - I need to thank him for trying to help, with the whole. Escape.

Lan Wangji is a sound bloke. He's with Macaluso's side so be careful when you approach him. After the mess in the tower I'm not that certain if it matters, but I'd rather none of us run afoul of this city. It's proving to be very foul.

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I will not physically approach him, then. Written message is safe, I hope.

Completely! It's a lucky thing - before we arrived here everyone could see and read everything - it's amazing how often people seemed to forget that.

I'll make sure to not forget. The whole...spying and subterfuge thing. To be honest, I understand the need to blend in and lie in wait until we can keen travelling, but Taravast is kind of horrid.

Horrid doesn't even do it justice. Which reminds me, when you come by for tea I'll teach you a charm a friend of mine invented, it's quite useful for keeping in-person conversations private.

[ Because why would anyone but her already know Sev's muffling charm? ]

I'm always happy to learn new spells.

A goodly number of the ones he worked out were very unpleasant, but the muffling charm is indispensable, I'm glad to show you.

[ugh. That one.]

I think - in the spirit of honesty - I should mention that I know it.

[ It takes at least twenty minutes for a response to come. She's busy trying to figure out how anyone knows Sev's homemade spells. ]

What?

[Listen, is she to be judged for eventually coming around to using a spell Harry found in Snape's childhood book? No.]

Not directly from the man who created it, but he left his book behind at Hogwarts. My friend used it in class, because he's a little cheater skating by on charm and luck.

[She is still BITTER about Harry doing better at school than her after SIX YEARS of proofreading his essays.]

[ Hearing about this is a bit of an emotional gut-punch - as most things about Sev are. It's difficult not to ask after him, that she doesn't expect good news stops her. ]

The cheek of it. I told Sev not to doodle in that book.

The interesting thing about it is that if you weave it into wards, you muffle the sound of an entire area to those outside the wards.

[There is a small pause here, because this part is... Gods, there are so many things that are hard to say. So many things she cannot say, to Lily Evans.]

It's very useful when camping.

Ah! Now that you bring it up–

[ Bless you Hermione for distracting her from the seemingly bottomless well of concern she secretly maintains for her old estranged bestie. ]

Our wards aren't as effective here. I think it's because they're meant for magic like ours as opposed to the powers in play in this place. Protego totalum on a door buys you a few minutes, things bounce off it at first but eventually the ward breaks.

[She took a risk there, but it paid off. Bestie's mom: distracted.]

It felt like that - like the magic was weird in this place, wilder somehow. What if you cast it over and over?

We can try. I'm quite sure if we put our heads together we might be able to come up with an effective means of warding.

Karsa knows a few wards too, but again, different magic.

She is very impressive.

I'm not sure how trustworthy her employer is - in truth he gives me the creeps but she certainly is impressive, isn't she?

I haven't had the pleasure of a face to face, but from experience when a man refers to himself by trade alone, he's vying for power.

A fair assessment. He's meant to be our patron but that he's been able to negotiate with a pair of undead overlords makes me question what he is and what he's about heavily.

Hermione I can't tell you just how nice it is to have someone from home to talk to.

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