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Hermione Granger
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[reparo]

After being asked so nonchalantly if I knew other methods of healing? I am hardly going to be able to go back to sleep, so out with it. What ails?

[blackscales]

I suspect the local curse rites to be preventing healing magic from removing my injuries.

[reparo]

I've noticed that.

[blackscales]

It is the same for you? I was hoping some non-magical treatment might at least ease the symptoms.

It is making sleep difficult.

[ So he is awake, you see. ]

[reparo]

Nightmares are harder to deal with than the bruises and marks, if I'm honest.

I wasn't asleep.

[blackscales]

I am used to nightmares.

[ He's got a strategy for those! Not... for this. ]

Yours are keeping you awake tonight?

[reparo]

I am used to that.

[blackscales]

[ So they are a regular occurrence for her too? Interesting. ]

Would you care for company?

[ To take her mind off it, perhaps? ]

1/2

[reparo]

[On the one hand: yes. On the other, can she really say yes without taking advantage of the situation to make a joke? Even a little?]

...how forward of you.

[reparo]

I would not say no to it. With the village asleep, now feels like the right time to go gathering herbs, if I'm honest.

[blackscales]

Is it truly forward to offer company to someone who claimed themselves as my intended?

[ Honestly. ]

Though picking herbs in the dark wouldn't have been my first choice.

1/3

[reparo]

Ha.

[reparo]

Ha!

[reparo]

I can't very well invite you over, my room is for brewing potions right now. Don't worry, I can light a path for us.

[blackscales]

Mine has space if you would simply like to sit and drink tea, however if you prefer to walk outside I would be happy to accompany you.

[reparo]

I could be (easily) persuaded to sit and drink tea instead.

[blackscales]

My space is yours. The farm house by the poppy fields.

[reparo]

That's ironic, then. You're by poppy fields and you can't sleep?

[blackscales]

That is correct.

[reparo]

Because poppies have been used before to induce sleep.

[blackscales]

Purple Lotus is used in a similar fashion where I am from, to induce sleep. Similarly Dreamfoil, Dreaming Glory and Nightmare Vines depending on your required strength.

[reparo]

We could probably use the herbs we got in Elletheia, but I'm not sure induced sleep plagued with nightmares is the kind of activity I'd want to indulge in right now...

[blackscales]

Dreamless sleep would be preferable, but would take some experimentation with the ingredients and strength. Not a solution for tonight.  

[reparo]

[Meanwhile, despite continuing to send him messages, she has actually put her shoes on, a cloak, and taken to the village empty streets to find the house by the poppy fields.]

No, not tonight. I'm not sure if I should knock, but I'm outside.

-> ACTION!

[blackscales]

[ And there Wrathion had been, beginning to wonder if Hermione was putting off or avoiding coming to see him for some indiscernible human reason.

After a short moment he appears at the door, dressed in a casual robe he's keeping loose -- his hair neatly tied back ready for sleep that wasn't quite coming. He steps aside and inclines his head to encourage Hermione in, closes the door behind her and pads softly through to his room. There's little in it beyond the basics, a lantern lit, a small seating area, a bed, Wrathion's day clothes neatly hung up and a bag to one side. On the small table his astronomy book sits to one side, as does some brewing tea and two cups. ]

I'm sure if you were seen we'll cause a scandal, a night-time visit to my home before our wedding date.

[ Said with the mildest of tones. He is not actually worried about a scandal. Wrathion moves to sit, and although he has strong self-control it is perhaps a little... slower and more deliberate than his usual body language. Sitting on the floor at the low tables is not an especially comfortable currently. Little is entirely comfortable, truth be told.

He's hoping the mention of a wedding date is enough to keep her from paying attention to that. ]