[ It's comfortable, here like this. She knows they have an audience - George and Martha must still be around here somewhere, they'd been there when she and Luke had been talking on the lockets - but she doesn't care. Hermione knows she is doing something to help ease whatever it is that has been hurting Luke, maybe something that has been bothering him since he first arrived here. She understands the weight of having something hovering on your mind and making you stop and think, to consider your actions more than you might have otherwise, and it takes her a little while to do anything more than bask in the fact that she is sitting here and she might have somehow done something good - and his arm moves, drawing her closer, and the secretive smile quirks over her lips and soothes her as she bites back her happiness.
There's more to the story, of course, both their stories, but they're content to be here and simply exist. There's a war on the horizon and battles to be fought and won (she hopes they'll be won, at least, what more can she do but hope) but right now they're just two friends that are trying to take care of each other. While that might be new for Luke it's familiar and comforting to her. He said that her friends need to know how lucky they are but -- she just wants to make sure they're cared for, they're happy. If that means mothering them a little then it's something she will do willingly and with a stern and set gaze. Nothing is going to stop her except for something desperately serious and... Well. Who knows with the Drabworld and everything going on. She has to do everything in her power to make sure everything is done right and the people she knows, the people she wants to cherish, have all the things they need to survive.
For now, though, her mind is quiet and her half-tired body is relaxing, letting herself lean against Luke a little more as her eyes turn to look at their joined hands. Heaving out a soft noise, a little sigh, she scoffs and turns her head, almost smushing her face into his shoulder as she tilts to look up at him. ] I'm not that tiny. I'm big enough to give you a clip around the ear if you don't check in on time, and I can bribe your snakes with rats. Don't forget that I can turn cups into rats if I want. [ Not that she would go out of her way to do that often, considering, but. She's laughing a little as she speaks, biting her lip as she hums. ] I can be quite vicious when I want to be.
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There's more to the story, of course, both their stories, but they're content to be here and simply exist. There's a war on the horizon and battles to be fought and won (she hopes they'll be won, at least, what more can she do but hope) but right now they're just two friends that are trying to take care of each other. While that might be new for Luke it's familiar and comforting to her. He said that her friends need to know how lucky they are but -- she just wants to make sure they're cared for, they're happy. If that means mothering them a little then it's something she will do willingly and with a stern and set gaze. Nothing is going to stop her except for something desperately serious and... Well. Who knows with the Drabworld and everything going on. She has to do everything in her power to make sure everything is done right and the people she knows, the people she wants to cherish, have all the things they need to survive.
For now, though, her mind is quiet and her half-tired body is relaxing, letting herself lean against Luke a little more as her eyes turn to look at their joined hands. Heaving out a soft noise, a little sigh, she scoffs and turns her head, almost smushing her face into his shoulder as she tilts to look up at him. ] I'm not that tiny. I'm big enough to give you a clip around the ear if you don't check in on time, and I can bribe your snakes with rats. Don't forget that I can turn cups into rats if I want. [ Not that she would go out of her way to do that often, considering, but. She's laughing a little as she speaks, biting her lip as she hums. ] I can be quite vicious when I want to be.